Dear friends,

The National Basketball Academy (tNBA), the Youth Basketball Provider for the Cleveland Cavaliers, brings Europe the Official Cavaliers Youth Hoops Program. With the cooperation of basketball clubs, kids will have the chance to learn the secrets of our national sport. The Youth Hoops Program consists of camps, clinics, leagues, personal coaching, team training, all of which are designed to teach the fundamentals of basketball in a fun and positive atmosphere.

The National Basketball Academy organizes, promotes, and manages basketball events of the highest quality on a local, regional and national level. The trainers are true basketball professionals with vast experience in Collegiate and Professional Basketball. Some trainers have played professionally, trained NBA players, coached at the college level, and all of them have several years of basketball teaching experience.

The National Basketball Academy is the only company in USA that organizes the Youth Programs of eight NBA teams and one WNBA team:

Cleveland Cavaliers

Orlando Magic

Los Angeles Clippers

Minnesota Timberwolves

Minnesota Lynx (WNBA)

New Orleans Hornets

Houston Rockets

Oklahoma City Thunder

Charlotte Bobcats

We are very excited and honored to be part of the Cavaliers family and we’re looking forward to start working with kids all across Europe, just as our program in Cleveland, were offering them a great experience in a yearly training program with camps and tournaments.

Our goal is to become the #1 cooperating Academy with the NBA and with the support of our European partner teams, we feel that we can achieve this goal. We are very passionate with what we are doing and with the Cavaliers on our side, we will continue to help kids to become better basketball players and better people.

Shane Kline Ruminski, tNBA President