Basketball, and all sport, could save the world
In times when people feel hopeless to influence the global agenda, sports like basketball can become a vehicle for social change. If we spent as much time and money on building understanding and co-operation through sport as we do on creating instruments of war, the world would be a safer place.

OTTAWA—The United Nations took a few moments out of its war-based agenda to declare the first-ever World Basketball Day on Dec. 21.
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