{"id":479694,"date":"2026-02-14T14:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/479694\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:56:08","slug":"how-basketball-can-save-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/479694\/","title":{"rendered":"How Basketball Can Save the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

An evening with David Hollander
Monday, March 9, 2026 | 5\u20137 p.m.
Alumni and Friends Center<\/p>\n

Join us for a keynote and conversation exploring how basketball offers a powerful lens for understanding leadership, community and the future.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

Event Overview <\/p>\n

What if basketball is more than a game?<\/p>\n

In this engaging keynote and conversation, NYU professor David Hollander explores how the principles of basketball \u2014 teamwork, trust, movement and shared responsibility \u2014 offer powerful lessons for leadership, community and solving complex challenges.<\/p>\n

Drawing from his acclaimed book\u00a0How Basketball Can Save the World<\/a>, Hollander shows how the structure of the game can help us think differently about collaboration, innovation and building a stronger future.<\/p>\n

\tAbout<\/p>\n

\tDavid Hollander<\/p>\n

No one in the world talks about basketball like NYU Professor David Hollander.<\/p>\n

An award-winning educator, he is the first person to formally treat the game itself as a value system, a philosophy, a set of articulated principles that can help guide us to figure out, grow, solve and create in the 21st Century.<\/p>\n

In his wildly popular class and book, he tells the story of\u00a0How Basketball Can Save the World.\u00a0 With basketball, he has already impacted global institutions:\u00a0the United Nations, the Vatican and higher education, with new projects pushing into healthcare and sustainability.<\/p>\n

Who Should Attend<\/p>\n

This event is open to anyone (students, faculty, staff, and community members) interested in: <\/p>\n

Leadership and innovation<\/p>\n

Community building and teamwork<\/p>\n

Ethics and systems thinking<\/p>\n

The intersection of sports and society<\/p>\n

Admission is free. No registration required. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An evening with David HollanderMonday, March 9, 2026 | 5\u20137 p.m.Alumni and Friends Center Join us for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-479694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}