B'ball all-star game in Surabaya

B'ball all-star game in Surabaya

JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Basketball Association (Perbasi)
will hold the 2001 Nuvo Kobatama All-Star Game at the Kertajaya
basketball hall in Surabaya on Sunday.

The Perbasi official in charge of the national basketball
league, Doeddie Gambiro, said on Tuesday the game would feature
20 players from 10 teams. All of the players were selected by
fans during the last two league rounds in Malang, East Java, and
Surakarta, Central Java.

"The All-Star Game is being held to entertain basketball fans
throughout the nation," he said, adding that the game will be
aired live on SCTV at 4 p.m.

He said each participating player would receive Rp 1 million
(US$86), and the game's Most Valuable Player would receive an
additional Rp 500,000 from sponsor Kratingdaeng.

For the game, Simon Pasaribu from the Satria Muda club and
Tjetjep Firmansyah from Aspac Texmaco were respectively named
team manager and coach of the ABC Alkaline Western Division
squad. Nandang Ruskandar and Dedy Kuskanto of Panasia Indosyntec
will serve as manager and coach of the Kratingdaeng Eastern
Division side. (ivy)