At the brand new Basketball Arena, event will be held from 16-21st August. This is one of the largest temporary venues, which has been built for the Olympic Games. The tournament will be six team men championship, which will feature lots of stars from the leading NBA sides of America. It will mainly includes Britain’s Luol Deng and France’s Tony Parker and Joakim Noah.
The French team has won all the five games and star players were hugely impressed by the Olympic venues. Parker plays for the San Antonio in NBA stated, “I think it's great. I can see the excitement in people's faces. Everybody is happy. London is going to be a great host so hopefully we can qualify and come back next year.”
Noah, the France centre stated, “I would love to be back here next year. This week has been great with the competitive games, the atmosphere, the arena.” LOCOG will see the working of teams and movement of people all across the venues.
The London Competition manager for Basketball, Joanna Sutherland is quite pleased with the event. She stated, “The main thing is always that out on the court what everyone sees runs smoothly, that athletes and teams are happy and for all the things that need adjusting to be dealt with in the back of house. I'm really pleased with my team. This is the team I will have in place next year. They've all come to this event to work for the week and they're doing really well.”
She further added, “The volunteers have been fantastic – really, really enthusiastic, really, really keen. They've been great. I'm really pleased and really confident of what they're capable of next year.”
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