Signs: Globalized Basketball

Posted At : March 21, 2009 2:01 AM
Related Categories: globalization,sports

What is it about basketball that has made it the second-biggest sport in the world? Is it the association with American pop (read: black) culture? Is it its embrace by Communist governments?

Where have you seen basketball’s reach?

This is from rural Poland, courtesy of sxc.hu member mzacha.

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