The National Community Basketball League (NCBL) was officially launched yesterday at the SleepInn Hotel on Church Road, Georgetown.
Chairman of the NCBL, Kwame Mentor, during his brief remarks said, “I’ve been around the sport all my life and this is our way of giving back to the sport, we can’t make money in this sport, so we are doing it for the love… we want to call all our sponsors our partners because we need everybody involved.”
Meanwhile, Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Executive, Rawle Toney, declared that the entity as well as the local governing body, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF), fully endorses the initiative of the NCBL. “This is a good initiative, and we are here to offer support for it, this is exactly what basketball needs as we look at the return of sport but of course we plan on ensuring that all logistics are in order so that the league can run smoothly.”
Technical Director of the NCBL, Mark Bradford, informed that the requisite logistics and systems are in place for the staging of events. He noted that the League is awaiting the green light for commencement from the relevant authorities, in view of the strictures in place due to the pandemic.
According to a release from the League, “The NCBL was born in 2012 but due to unforeseen circumstances was unable to become an annual event. However, the NCBL formed a Non-Governmental Organization that will deal with all basketball aspects of the league.”
