ABA heads to Egypt for summer event
Published on April 28, 2005 under American Basketball Association (ABA) News Release
Indianapolis, IN. Joe Newman, ABA CEO, today announced that the professional basketball league has agreed to participate with P2 Wear, an Egyptian sportswear brand, to set up a streetball tournament in Cairo, Egypt from July 15-17. Titled "Takeover Africa," the tournament will include male and female competitions as well as several side events including a 3-point shooting contest, a slam dunk contest as well as a mad handles ball handling competition. According to Tarek Nasr, spokesperson for P2, "The Egyptian government will be present at the tournament and the ABA will look towards establishing partnership programs in accordance with the Egyptian government to better the caliber of the game of basketball in Egypt, Africa and the Middle East as well as expose people of the region to the unique ABA brand of basketball."
Newman added, "The ABA will be sending over a contingent of people to participate in this historic event. Of course, the tournament will be played with ABA red, white and blue balls - and the people of Egypt will be very excited to meet the representatives we are sending. We are honored to have been asked by Mr. Nasr and will represent the US well there. We'll be posting more details shortly."
For more information, contact Tarek Nasr at t_nasr@p2wear.com or visit their website at www.p2wear.com or www.abalive.com.
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