Youth players are paying $20 each to take part in a street ball event to get a chance to represent Singapore at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games. It's puzzling that they should pay for selection trials.
Despite being without several of their regulars, the Singapore Slingers still managed to see off a determined Malaysian All-Stars side 92-80 in a Singapore Challenge Series game at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Wednesday night.
Basketballers hoping to make the Youth Olympic Games team get a chance to impress this weekend at Kampong Ubi Community Centre.
Basketball fans will get to see some of Singapore's best youth players in action in the adidas Nations League next year. Four teams will play a round-robin league in the first quarter of next year, with the winning team getting a shot to represent Singapore at a regional event in China.
Singaporeans Desmond Oh and Wong Wei Long will make the Slingers squad for the first time tomorrow against a Malaysian selection squad at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
Talk 'n Text and San Miguel, two professional teams from the Phillippines Basketball Association league will play a regular season game in Singapore at the Indoor Stadium on Saturday, November 30th in a double-header bill that will see the Singapore Slingers take on an all-star Filipino team play in the second game.
The normally reticent Slingers crowd finally got into the act as they noisily cheered the home team to a closely fought 86-81 win over Beijing Aoshen Olympian, a team that was based here earlier in the year.
