6月30日CNN聽力：籃球明星訪古巴展開籃球交際助美國古巴幹系破冰
Basketball is not the most popular sport in Cuba.
Baseball gets top honors there.
But some of the NBA`s biggest stars recentlytraveled to the Caribbean nation,shooting for a littlebasketball diplomacy.
The U.S.and Cuban governments are moving towardbetter relations following decades of cold war rivalry.
Political divisions remain.
In January,Cuba warned the U.S. not to interfere with its communist government.
But as far as sports go,the NBA is helping build a bridge between the U.S. and its southeasternneighbor.
Hoop dreams come to Havana,along with some of basketball`s living legends.
As U.S.-Cuba relations slowly thaw,for the first time,the NBA hosts a basketball training camp inCuba.
Towering legends of the game came out of retirement to practice a little basketball diplomacy.
Following the Cuban Revolution,sports became part of the ideological struggle with capitalism,asFidel Castro declared Cubans would play for the love of the game,not the sky high salaries thathe said corrupted American athletes.
Politics couldn`t stop Cubans,though,from addressing U.S.sports stars.
The visiting players were given awards by the Cuban government and serenaded by a tune notoften heard in communist-run Cuba,the U.S. national anthem.
Cuba,they say,has the potential to be a basketball powerhouse.
Cuba has a great history of producing phenomenal athletes.
You know,it`s-it`s a-the-what they-what I think what Cuba needs is exposure.
The U.S.economic embargo and Cuban government restrictions make it difficult for a Cubanplayer to compete in the NBA.
Many of Cuba`s top athletes still defect in order to play in the US.
But becoming the best,the visiting players say,is all about overcoming the odds.
I think it helps the young women and the young men to know that anything is possible.
And if it happened to me,it can happen to them.
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