New basketball league to promote non-Chinese talents


New basketball draftees Muhammad Fakhrurazi Mohd Idris with his one-year-old son (right) and Mohamad Amin Saifullah Ghazali with his two-year-old son at the launch of the Industrial and Commercial Basketball League (ICBL) at MABA Stadium in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. - FAIHAN GHANI/ The Star

PETALING JAYA: Efforts to make basketball a more accessible sport, especially to the non-Chinese, are being put in place with the inception of a new league – the Industrial and Commercial Basketball League (ICBL) – next month.

Under the ICBL rules, each team must field at least two non-Chinese players for the first two quarters of a match.

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