Beyond Your Wildest Hoop Dreams: Why the World’s First Born-Global Sport is Primed for Twenty-First Century Sports Diplomacy
Basketball, Sports Diplomacy Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff Basketball, Sports Diplomacy Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff

Beyond Your Wildest Hoop Dreams: Why the World’s First Born-Global Sport is Primed for Twenty-First Century Sports Diplomacy

Today, the NBA sports a very international labor force but basketball was a global sport prior to 1992, with its own local indigenous cultures. So unlike other U.S.-affiliated sports leagues, the NBA was able to build upon long-established hoops cultures. As a result, basketball is uniquely primed for twenty-first century sports diplomacy. It can—and often does—lead the way thanks to several realities.

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Peak Wembymania?
Basketball, Sports Diplomacy, France Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff Basketball, Sports Diplomacy, France Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff

Peak Wembymania?

Ahead of the NBA Draft 2023, learn more about the intergenerational story told in Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA for, contrary to some media analysis, over the past 25+ years France has become a main pipeline for talent into the North American leagues.  This didn’t happen overnight, nor is it a “new” phenomenon this year.

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Notes from Taiwan on Sports Diplomacy: Basketball Edition
Basketball, Sports Diplomacy Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff Basketball, Sports Diplomacy Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff

Notes from Taiwan on Sports Diplomacy: Basketball Edition

Earlier this month I had the honor to speak about basketball as part of a sports diplomacy panel at the “Using Sport as Diplomacy” conference, a two-day seminar rife with lessons learned from meeting and exchanging with international colleagues from Asia, North America, and Europe. Surprisingly, in a land where baseball reigns supreme, there were several unexpected sports diplomacy lessons through the basketball hoop.

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