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"We Love This Game !" ECA, the NBA and Reebok bring Basketball to Senegalese Youth
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Sports Envoy, Cynthia Cooper, is welcomed by the rural village Somone
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ECA Sports Envoys Cynthia Cooper, former WNBA player with the Houston Comets, and NBA player Jimmy Jackson of the Phoenix Suns, conducted 4 days of clinics for over 500 Senegalese youth September 2-5. Speaking about the importance of hard work and perseverance, the Envoys gave inspirational talks to youths in Dakar and the nearby town of Thies as well as to the entire village of Somone that turned out to witness the envoys signing the village friendship wall. The envoys were joined by Chargé d'Affaires Robert Jackson and a large NBA delegation of basketball coaches and trainers, including former Georgetown coach John Thompson, in the donation of 4,000 pairs of new Reebok basketball shoes to Senegalese youth. The clinics and shoe donation received unprecedented, wide-spread media coverage
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