参加篮球运动的人,仅在欧洲,即达四千万人之多。篮球运动得到遍及世界各大洲一百四十五个国家的全国性组织的赞助。在金字塔的遮荫下,在巴基斯坦通往阿富汗的开伯尔山口的空旷土地上,在南美安第斯山村的斗牛场上,在非洲的丛林中以及在以色列的农庄上,到处都在打篮球。的确,在近十余年来,篮球显然已成为一种国际性运动,几乎 In basketball, only in Europe, that is up to 40 million people. Basketball is sponsored by national organizations in 145 countries on all continents. Under the shades of the pyramids, basketball is played everywhere on the open land in Pakistan’s Khyber Pass to Afghanistan, in the bullring in the Andes in South America, in the jungles of Africa, and on the farms in Israel. Indeed, basketball has clearly become an international sport in the last decade or so