BASKETBALL | National Basketball Federation of Trinidad and Tobago

 SPORT BASKETBALL
 AFFILIATE National Basketball Federation of Trinidad and Tobago
 PRESIDENT Claire Mitchell
 SECRETARY Rachel Dick
 CONTACT (868) 679-0454
 MAILING ADDRESS Ato Boldon Stadium, Ground Floor, Couva
 EMAIL info@nbftt.org
 WEBSITE www.nbftt.org

Business Leader recently caught up with former pro basketball player Ferran Martínez of GlobaTalent to discuss how you can build a business as a former elite sportsperson.Can you tell us about your pro basketball career?I started playing basketball at school when I was eight years old and, at just 12 years old, I was signed by FC Barcelona to play on the junior team.

The NBA star’s Oscar-winning short film, in which he mused on his post-basketball future, now has a new layer of sadness and irony

THE local basketball fraternity is now mourning national player Shawn "Shawny" Lawrence, 30, who died on Wednesday.

With a pow­er­ful de­sire to ho­n­our late Guyanese bas­ket­baller An­drew Ifill, friends and fam­i­ly came to­geth­er at the Mal­oney In­door Sports Are­na and played bas­ket­ball match­es in his ho­n­our on Sun­day.

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He was one of the NBA’s finest sharpshooters and a two-time champion alongside Michael Jordan, but was run out of the league for his outspoken views. A quarter of a century on, Craig Hodges is still fighting the good fight

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