Iranican Reports: First NBA Iranian Heritage Night (Part 1 of 2)

Iranican Reports: First NBA Iranian Heritage Night (Part 1 of 2)
by iranicanlive
18-Nov-2009
 

The first "Iranian Heritage Night" was put together for Hamed Haddadi, the first Iranian-American basketball player in the NBA, playing against the Warriors at Oracle Arena.

 

This event also featured Farshid Amin singing the national anthem as well as Niosha Dance Academy performing a pregame dance.

In this video (Part 1), we interview the attendees and Farshid Amin, in Part 2, to be released soon, we interview Hamed Haddadi and one of the Grizzlies coaches.

The next NBA Iranian Heritage event will be on Nov 29th in LA followed by Dec 16th in Atlanta.

Visit iranican.com for details.

(http://www.iranican.com/blog/?p=938)

 


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Anahid Hojjati

Great video, I like the sense of humor displayed in it

by Anahid Hojjati on

This is a great video since it reports about NBA Iranian heritage night with humor.


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