Recapping Day 4 of BWB Asia 2018

BWB Asia Camp 2018

The fourth and final day of the 2018 edition of the Basketball Without Borders Asia Camp concluded this past weekend in the NBA Academy India in Delhi, with the 66 campers participating in their respective championship and All-Star Games.

The day started with the girls' championship game, with Paige Price of Australia scoring seven points to lead the Minnesota Lynx over the New York Liberty, 20-13.

It was the boys' turn up next, with Samuel Jenkins of New Zealand scoring eight points to lead the Milwaukee Bucks over the Brooklyn Nets, 22-18.

Afterwards, the All-Star teams were named, with the following campers being split up into two teams for the boys and girls:

Girls All-Star Team:
Team Red - Rajvi Desai (India), Suniskha Karthik (India), Sreekala Rani (India), Indiah Bowyer (Australia), Pushpa Senthil Kumar (India), Jianjun Gao (China), Dan Zhao (China)

Team White - Siya Deodhar (India), Grishma Niranjan (India), Khushi Dongre (India), Sanjana Ramesh (India), Priyanka Behal (India), Paige Price (Australia), Guanpeng Liu (China)

Boys All-Star Team:
Team Red - Kaiga Matsuo (Japan), Rence Padrigao (Philippines), Joshua James Giddey (Australia), Chien-Hao Ma (China), Amir Hossein Aliyari Dehkordi (Iran), Kian Jamie Dennis (Australia), Matin Aghajanpour (Iran), Clancy Bird (Australia), Mac Stodart (New Zealand)

Team White - Chiang-Shuang Chen (Chinese Taipei), Mohammed Sina Vahedi (Iran), Samuel Jenkins (New Zealand), Shintaro Ehara (Japan), Daniel Foster (Australia), Andre Tannoury (Lebanon), Lachlan Joseph Bofinger (Australia), Chao Wu (China), Harshwardhan Tomar (India), Princepal Singh (India)

For the girls, Red beat White, 27-18, with Dan Zhao scoring eight points to be named as the All-Star Game MVP. For the boys, Red also won, 39-37, with eight points each from Clancey Bird and Mac Stodart, while Chen Chiang-Shuan was selected as the All-Star Game MVP.

During the All-Star Games, there was a special event where the outstanding shooters from the camp got to challenge their guests in a shootout.

Boys 3-point champion Amir Hossein of Iran faced Caris LeVert, while his female counterpart Indiah Bowyer of Australia competed against Ebony Hoffman.

Capping off the event is an awarding ceremony, with the MVPs being Filipino camper Rence Forthsky Padrigao and Sanjana Ramesh of India highlighting the winners.


Padrigao shares, "I have not only improved as a basketball player but also as an individual. The focus here was on your overall development at the personal and professional level, and I am glad to have won MVP at the end of all of it."

For Ramesh, she says, "Whatever I have learnt here playing with international players and coaches I am going to take that back and share the knowledge with my fellow players. Basketball is my life and these four days at the camp were the best I have had in my life."

Completing the list of awardees are Taine Murray and Vaishnavi Yadav for the Grit Award and Lachlan Joseph Bofinger for the High-Flyer Award.