Basketball, historically a stepsister among Central Asian sports, is expected to grow in popularity now a new organisation is being formed to promote it.
![Uzbek teenagers play basketball outside a Tashkent school in September. The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) recently announced it will create an association to help basketball to take root in Central Asia. [Maksim Yeniseyev]](http://centralasiaonline.com/shared/images/2012/10/04/uzsports.jpg)
The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) August 25 announced plans to create a Central Asian Basketball Association (CABA), which will be headquartered in "Almaty" and cover Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
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