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The Apache, Pueblo and Navajo tribes in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico are home to several high schools. In these areas, basketball is very important. In Arizona, three of the top six largest crowds at a boys' basketball game are rezball games (regardless of school size), with one of the two games tied for the highest-ever attendance being a game between Apache and Navajo ...
Pages in category "Native American basketball players" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Rez Ball is a 2024 American sports drama film directed by Sydney Freeland, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sterlin Harjo, based on the nonfiction sports novel Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation, by The New York Times journalist Michael Powell. LeBron James served as one of the producers.
In 1995, Becenti was playing professional basketball in Sweden. She also played in Greece and, briefly, Turkey. She was the first Native American woman to play professional basketball for a foreign nation. [4] In 1997, she signed with the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA as a free agent and played in their inaugural season.
The Lady Chieftains are a girls basketball team from Shiprock, New Mexico, located on the Navajo Nation. They are the subject of the documentary Rocks with Wings . The documentary charts the transformation of the team from a lackluster team to a championship team led by coach Jerry Richardson.
Basketball or Nothing is a 2019 American documentarian scripted reality television series on Netflix filmed in Chinle, Arizona. The premise revolves around the lives of the Chinle High School boys’ basketball team based on the Navajo Nation reservation, the largest reservation in America. [1] [2] [3] The series featured Raul Mendoza as coach ...
Ryneldi Becenti, first Native American to play in the WNBA, [46] first Native American woman to play professional basketball for a foreign nation [47] Joe Burton, first Native American to earn a scholarship to a Pac-10 conference [48] Sonny Dove, Wampanoag N.B.A. basketball player Detroit Pistons and New York Nets
All three existing National Basketball Association teams that previously used Indigenous imagery have stopped doing so. (See Prior usage list below). Bendigo Braves (Bendigo, Victoria) play in the South East Australian Basketball League; Guaiqueríes de Margarita, - named after an Indigenous people of Northern Venezuela also known as the Waikerí.