Abdul-Jabbar to visit Jakarta

Fri, 18 Aug 1995, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA (JP): American basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
will be the star at a two-day event featuring the first-ever
streetball championship in Indonesia starting on Aug. 26 at the
Pondok Indah Mall parking lot in South Jakarta.

The six-time NBA Most Valuable Player will visit Jakarta as
the ambassador of sportswear and sports equipment manufacturer
Adidas, which invented the three-a-side game in 1992 in Germany
and sponsors the championship. The retired Los Angeles Laker, now
47-year-old, will also conduct a public coaching clinic.

Streetball is half-court basketball which pits both male and
female players against each other. The game ends when a team
scores 16 points or after 20 minutes.

Two hundred teams from four age groups will compete for a
total of Rp 20 million (US$8,841) in cash and a berth in the
world streetball championship to be held next month in Barcelona.
(arf)

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