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NCAA and NBA to focus energies on youth basketball

 
The two groups will invest $15 million each over the next five years to fund training and oversight of coaches, officials, families and players. > SAN ANTONIO -- The NCAA and the NBA, organizations that once barely spoke to each other, are combining forces to try to shape what NCAA President Myles Brand called the "dysfunctional" world of youth basketball. (link)

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