Univerzitní basketbal v kontextu globalizace sportu
College basketball in sport globalization

Summary/Abstract: The most important feature of contemporary top performance sport, as well as sport in general, is globalization. Its natural reflection, the system of global-sport labor migration exists; consequences are not only for the sport workers themselves but also for the host a donor nations, sport leagues and teams, and for the sport itself. For each there are positive effects and benefits, but there are also disappointments and drawbacks as well. A core question in ascertaining the reach and response of globalization in sport from the perspective of basketball is that of sport migration: The best basketball players in the world go to play in the United States NBA. Teams bring in immigrant athletes to gain a competitive edge over their competition who are almost exclusively relying on national, or home grown talent. One of the exclusive chance for European players to be part of such attractive system of sport carrer is to study at some US university and play in basketball team organized by National Collegiate Athletic Association. Such excellent oportunity are just taken advantage also for two young basketball players from Brno, passing strictly demanding selection for the chance to be part amateur top basketball league NCAA and study at American universities, too.

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