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What this section is for

Most of what happens in basketball happens in a school gym on a weekday evening, with nobody watching and no money in the room. This section is about that part of it: programmes, the people who run them, the grants that keep a hall heated and the long unglamorous work of getting a fourteen-year-old to a second season.

It is also the oldest part of the archive. The magazine began as a youth and development title, and the material it produced then — campus programmes, grant recipients, training projects, the reports written when a scheme was new — is kept here in full. Nothing was shortened to fit the new design, and the German-language pages are still in German, because translating them afterwards would have been rewriting them.

Read together, the old and new pages make a point neither makes alone: the problems are not seasonal. Funding, floor time, coaching turnover and transport come back every year, in every country the archive covers, and the programmes that survive are usually the ones that solved the dull problem rather than the interesting one.