{"id":182773,"date":"2024-05-15T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/15\/expectation-is-to-make-basketball-a-household-sport-ayitey-bulley\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T17:35:09","slug":"expectation-is-to-make-basketball-a-household-sport-ayitey-bulley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/15\/expectation-is-to-make-basketball-a-household-sport-ayitey-bulley\/","title":{"rendered":"Expectation is to make basketball a household sport- Ayitey Bulley \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chairman of the Accra Basketball League (ABL), Ayitey Bulley, has talked about his expectations for the 2024 ABL Season.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with\u00a0<strong>Citi Sports<\/strong>, the administrator stated that through Ghana\u2019s premier basketball league, he expects basketball becomes a household sport.<\/p>\n<p>The league has commenced with 10 teams competing in the Men\u2019s Division I and Women\u2019s Division respectively with the likes of Tema Youth and Juniour Reformers competing in the 20 team Men\u2019s Division II.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe biggest expectation is to make basketball a household sport; a sport that everybody watches. We want more people to become interested in basketball and not just in playing basketball but in all aspects of basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>He added that, \u201cWe are hoping to see the results of those development and interventions (recruiting young referees and statistics) in the league in terms of the quality of the games that are played.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240514_175258.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-585039\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_585036\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240514_175851-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-585036\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">2023 ABL Champions Spintex Knights Photo Courtesy: Spintex Knights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2024 ABL Season comes in after Ghana won the silver medal in the Men\u2019s 3\u00d73 Basketball event at the 2023 African Games.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of the Accra Basketball League (ABL), Ayitey Bulley, has talked about his expectations for the 2024 ABL Season. 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The league has commenced with 10 teams competing in the Men\u2019s Division I and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Expectation is to make basketball a household sport- Ayitey Bulley \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/15\/expectation-is-to-make-basketball-a-household-sport-ayitey-bulley\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Expectation is to make basketball a household sport- Ayitey Bulley \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chairman of the Accra Basketball League (ABL), Ayitey Bulley, has talked about his expectations for the 2024 ABL Season. 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