KBL promises $100 million reward for men’s basketball gold medal
The Korean Basketball League (KBL) announced on 18 November that it will pay a reward of 100 million won to the Korean men’s basketball team if they win gold at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. The team will attempt to win its fifth gold medal at the Games and its first in nine years since the 2014 edition in Incheon. KBL President Kim Hee-ok visited the Jincheon Athletes’ Village in Chung cheongbuk-do on the same day and met with the national athletes, who are sweating it out in the final stages of their preparations, promising to pay the reward and separately delivering a small amount of encouragement .Kim called on the players, including head coach Choo Il-seung, to continue their efforts and said, “Play a game that will impress the people and become a new catalyst for the revival of professional basketball.” South Korea, who are in Group D alongside 온라인카지노 Japan, Indonesia and Qatar, will depart for Hangzhou, China, on the 23rd.