{"id":37958,"date":"2018-08-06T20:53:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T20:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-tips-young-basketball-players-on-becoming\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T16:44:00","slug":"kagame-tips-young-basketball-players-on-becoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-tips-young-basketball-players-on-becoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame tips young basketball players on becoming giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kagame was speaking Monday in Kigali while opening the 2018 Giants of Africa Camp.<\/p>\n<p>Giants of Africa is a Kenyan non-profit organization aimed at facilitating young talented basketball players gain experience and access to coaching and facilities. <\/p>\n<p>At the camp in Kigali, the young players will be facilitated by Adam Silver, the Commissioner of the National Basketball Association, a men\u2019s professional basketball league in North America. Also attending the camp is Masai Ujiri, the President of the Toronto Raptors, a Canadian Professional basketball team based in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame thanked both participants saying that it is pleasure to be in the camp for young people and for basketball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful that you have identified and spotted our country&#8217;s young talents and you are doing this work to develop them,\u201d Kagame said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to young basketball players, Kagame said \u201cwe look up to you for you to be what you want to be among other things including basketball players,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told participants of Giants of Africa camp to invest possible efforts if they want to become giants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don&#8217;t become giants anyhow. Invest your energy, time, thinking and passion into it, you may end up being giants,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26551 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/p8-4-db037.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26550 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/h19a4641-e1db3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26549 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/h19a4893-5b85c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26548 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/p1-12-2b6c8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26547 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/17-299-4edc2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26546 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/p2-15-f0eb8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has urged young basketball players to invest energy, time and passion if they want to become giants of Africa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37958"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37958"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}