MILWAUKEE BUCKS’ MALCOLM BROGDON TO VISIT KUALA LUMPUR
- Brogdon to Participate at the Jr. NBA Malaysia National Training Camp by
Dutch Lady and Help Select the 2018 Jr. NBA Malaysia All-Stars -
- 2018 Jr. NBA Malaysia All-Stars to Travel to Shanghai for NBA China
Games 2018
Featuring the Philadelphia 76ers and the Dallas Mavericks -
The National
Basketball Association (NBA) announced today that 2016-17 Kia NBA Rookie of the
Year Malcolm Brogdon of the Milwaukee Bucks will travel to Kuala Lumpur to participate
in the Jr. NBA Malaysia National Training Camp from Aug. 3-5.
The National Training
Camp, staged at the IGB International School from Aug. 3-4 and at the One Utama
Oval on Aug. 5, is the culmination of the 2018 Jr. NBA Malaysia presented by
Dutch Lady. Brogdon will assist coaching
the top 60 boys and girls from the Regional Selection Camp in Kuala Lumpur and
the 40 outstanding players selected by teachers from
the Jr. NBA Coaches Academy. Rocky,
the official mascot of the Denver Nuggets, will also be in attendance to interact
with the players and entertain fans. At the end of the National Training Camp, eight boys and
eight girls will be named as the 2018 Jr. NBA Malaysia All-Stars and travel to Shanghai in October to attend NBA
China Games 2018 presented by Vivo featuring the Philadelphia 76ers and the
Dallas Mavericks.
“It’s
inspiring to see how basketball is played around the world and how I can positively
impact its growth here in Southeast Asia,” said Brogdon. “I’m excited for the opportunity to train
with Malaysia’s aspiring athletes and instill within them the core values of
the game to help them reach their potential on and off the court.”
“Dutch Lady, the leading liquid milk brand in Malaysia*, is excited to
work with NBA once again to promote the importance of inculcating an active
lifestyle and proper nutrition among Malaysian children,” said Dutch Lady
Malaysia, Marketing Director, Consumer Dairy, Ramjeet Kaur Virik. “It’s essential for our Malaysian parents and
coaches to understand the health benefits of dairy nutrition that provides
nutrients like milk protein that help build strong young athletes and allow
them to unleash their optimum performance in sports.”
Brogdon was drafted 36th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in
the 2016 NBA Draft and was named as the Rookie of the Year and the All-Rookie
First Team in 2017. Brogdon averaged 13
points, 3.3 rebounds, and 3.2 assists per game this season.
The Jr. NBA,
the league’s global youth basketball participation program for boys and girls,
teaches the fundamental skills as well as the core values of the game at the
grassroots level in an effort to help grow and improve the youth basketball
experience for players, coaches and parents. During the 2017-18 season,
the NBA will reach more than 26 million youth in 71 countries through a variety
of camps, clinics, skills challenges, league play and outreach events.
Dutch Lady is
partnering with the Jr. NBA program as part of its Drink. Move. Be Strong
(DMBS) campaign to help foster the habit of living an active lifestyle and following
a healthy diet to highlight the importance of milk nutrition in supporting Malaysian
children's growth and development. According to the South East Asian
Nutrition Survey (SEANUTS), 50 percent of surveyed Malaysian children were diagnosed
with calcium deficiency, with a high percentage of them with vitamin D
insufficiency despite having lots of sunlight in Malaysia. Dutch Lady will also organize a range of edu-tainment
activities in the upcoming Jr. NBA clinics to engage and educate Malaysian
children on the importance of milk nutrition, an essential source of protein
and calcium, to address the concern of nutrition deficiency among Malaysian
children.
In addition to presenting partner Dutch Lady, the event is supported by
the Ministry of Education Malaysia, official partner Gatorade, Spalding and
Westports Dragons. Astro is the official
broadcast partner of the Jr. NBA in Malaysia.
For more
information, visit the official event website at www.jrnba.asia/malaysia and follow the Jr. NBA on Facebook at www.facebook.com/jrnbamalaysia. For all things NBA, visit
www.nba.com and “Friend” the NBA’s official account on LINE by adding
@nba_global.
About the
NBA
The
NBA is a global sports and media business built around four professional sports
leagues: the National Basketball Association, the Women’s National Basketball Association,
the NBA G League and the NBA 2K League that launched in May 2018. The NBA has established a major international
presence with games and programming in 215 countries and territories in 50
languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 125,000 stores in 100
countries on six continents. NBA rosters
at the start of the 2017-18 season featured 108 international players from a
record 42 countries and territories. NBA
Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass. The NBA has created one of the largest social
media communities in the world, with 1.5 billion likes and followers globally
across all league, team, and player platforms.
Through
NBA Cares, the league addresses important social issues by working with internationally
recognized youth-serving organizations that support education, youth and family
development, and health-related causes.
About Dutch Lady Milk Industries Berhad
Incorporated in 1963, Dutch Lady Milk Industries Berhad (Dutch Lady
Malaysia) is a leading dairy company in Malaysia. It is owned by one of the
largest dairy cooperative companies in the world, Royal FrieslandCampina NV, a
Dutch multinational dairy company.
Dutch Lady Malaysia was the first milk company to be listed on Bursa
Malaysia in 1968 and the first to introduce Formulated Milk Powder for Children
in Malaysia in 1988. Dutch Lady Malaysia, awarded as the Company of the Year
2014 by The Edge Billion Ringgit Club, manufactures and sells a wide range of
quality dairy products for the home and export market, with all products
enjoying a strong following in brands like Dutch Lady and Friso Gold®.
Through a unique collaboration between FrieslandCampina and four
international research teams/universities, the South East Asian Nutrition
Surveys (SEANUTS) study was commissioned to study the nutritional status and
insufficiency thereof found to be present in South East Asian children up to 12
years old.
*Dutch Lady is the No. 1 brand in Liquid Milk category in Total
Peninsular Malaysia based on Retail Index Service for 12 months ending February
2018 in Total Peninsular Malaysia (Copyright © 2018, The Nielsen Company (M)
Sdn Bhd).
More information can be found on www.dutchlady.com.my.
About Royal FrieslandCampina
Every day, Royal FrieslandCampina provides millions of consumers all
over the world with food that is rich in valuable nutrients. With annual
revenue of 12.1 billion euros, Royal FrieslandCampina is one of the world’s
five largest dairy companies, supplying consumer and professional products, as
well as ingredients and half-finished products to the food industry and the
pharmaceutical sector around the world. Royal FrieslandCampina has offices in
34 countries and more than 23,000 employees, and its products are available in
more than 100 countries. The Company is fully owned by Zuivelcoöperatie
FrieslandCampina U.A, with close to 19,000 member dairy farmers in the
Netherlands, Germany and Belgium—making it one of the world’s largest dairy
cooperatives.
For more information please visit: www.frieslandcampina.com.
About
Drink.Move.BeStrong
Drink.Move.BeStrong is Southeast Asia’s first integrated activation and
advocacy campaign which aims to cultivate an active and healthy lifestyle among
children through play, sports and proper nutrition. This campaign is founded upon the findings of
FrieslandCampina’s South East Asian Nutrition Survey (SEANUTS) on nutrition in
four countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam – to acquire an
understanding of the nutritional status and dietary intake of children up to 12
years old.
The key findings show that high percentage of Vitamin D
insufficiency among the children despite the amount of available sunlight, low
levels of physical activity and 30-40% of kids are not getting enough of the
right nutrition, regardless of age, location or income.
This multi-stakeholder, multi-channel campaign encourages children
across the region to drink two glasses of milk a day and spend an hour a day on
outdoor exercise. This regional campaign offers a host of activities including
the distribution of free milk cartons to schools, a dedicated health and
nutrition education programme and Jr NBA camps.
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