The 2025 NBA Basketball Without Borders Asia Camp has officially concluded, with some of the top rising talent from across the region learning from the sport's best.
A key group of Australians ended the event with awards recognitiom; Harry Cook (#41), Issac Weldon (#54), Cheyenne Bobongie (#8), and Taryn Bond (#23) were all named All-Stars, while Koby Moir (#44) took home the Sportsmanship Award.
But according to NBA player and Australian Boomer Duop Reath, the development from the campers was the true highlight of the event.
"It's been amazing seeing the talent, how these kids are working, and how fast they're picking up information," Reath told Sporting News Australia.
"Just seeing that has really been amazing, [I'm] grateful to be here, to be able to just share my knowledge with [the kids].
"It's important because I feel like a lot of these kids can relate to my story, and especially them being international. And then I've known that there are some international guys in the NBA and that their games can translate, and the game is very universal. So once you get the basic fundamentals, it's universal. It can work anyway.
"I enjoy giving back to the game, and I enjoy sharing what I have with people in general."
Reath was one of the NBA players who acted as coaches during the event, joining Boston's Derrick White and Philadelphia's Tyrese Maxey, as well as a whole host of coaching professionals.
One such leader was Khalid Robinson, the Golden State Warriors assistant who gave his time to the event.
"My role here is that I'm a coach and I run skill development stations every day for all the campers," Robinson told Sporting News Australia.
"Then I coach a team in games every day. We play two games each day. I coach the girls in the camp. Our team is the Valkyries, and it's a great group of girls that are super connected.
"I think the growth of international basketball is really important because it's a global game similar to soccer or football as it's called around the world. It's a game that can be played anywhere. It's a low cost of entry. There's courts everywhere. It's truly the people's game.
"Doing what we can to grow it in places like Singapore and other places around the world is really important as basketball is a very inclusive sport. We want everyone to play it.
"I think a camp like this is just really special. It brings in a lot of talent from around the world and around the region here in Asia. We have students and kids from all different countries interacting, different cultures, and it's a great way to bridge gaps culturally and just help kids grow as human beings and basketball players."
This mission of championing basketball as a truly global sport is one shared by Kim Gaucher, the former WNBA star, Canadian Olympian and current Head of Players Unit at FIBA.
"I think it's been outstanding. I think the level of compete in these young athletes has been really good," Gaucher told Sporting News Australia.
"It's been so much fun, too. There's actually quite a few on the women's side that play in Australia, even though they're from Samoa or some other places, but they all play and compete in the Australian Regional Leagues.
"Now, they're like, 'Oh, now I'm going to know everybody when we go to the championships.' It's cool to watch them forge the bonds that when they go to compete, they're going to have friends all over the world now.
"I think [basketball's global focus] is essential. That's our mission at FIBA, is to try to promote and build players that can represent their national teams and have strong competitions.
"So I think this partnership with the NBA where we get to come to every single region around the world and be able to expose these players to high levels of coaching, to a high level environment, and then just allow them to compare and see what players from other countries are doing, how they're playing, how they're training.
"I really think it's such an invaluable resource at a young age. I mean, it's something that I think if you talk to any of the coaches or NBA, WNBA players that are here, they'll say, 'Man, I wish that I had this when I was younger. What an incredible opportunity to be able to grow as a player.'"
This was the 15th edition of BWB Asia, and will now be followed by the inaugural NBA Rising Stars International Tournament, a regional high school basketball tournament featuring teams from across 11 countries, set to kick off Wednesday, June 25.