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Biography
Jamil Abiad is a serial entrepreneur but most notably known as a professional global basketball trainer. Abiad is based in Ottawa, Canada, and is currently working on building his basketball empire for athletes of all ages. At the age of 30, he has established 3 companies and continues to grow. His first company Next Level was created to help athletes promote themselves to coaches around the world to which would help them hopefully land a spot on a college, or university team. His second business NL-Fitness helps athletes develop their basketball skills and offers various services from private training, group training, camps & clinics. Through NL Fitness, Abiad has been able to travel around the world to train players and has had the opportunity to learn from NBA/WNBA Players, other global trainers, NBA Scouts, and high-level coaches. With his experiences over the years, he decided to start his most recent business, which is a basketball organization called 613believe. This basketball organization started with two teams with the end goal to grow and reach many other age groups in the years to follow, while giving basketball players the opportunity to receive high-level coaching, training, and many other services that will help elevate their basketball Ontario, Canada, Aug. 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canada, predominantly a hockey-loving nation is slowly but gradually making inroads for other sports, and basketball has emerged as one of the most prominent ones. Over the last decade or so, the popularity of basketball has grown tremendously in Canada. With the Toronto Raptors winning their first ever NBA title, it helped gain an even bigger interest from youth all over Canada. Interestingly, today, it is one of the biggest producers of NBA stars. As a result, Canadians’ interest in basketball both in terms of playing the sport as well as viewership has spiked massively. As the game of basketball continues to grow more and more programs are starting to evolve to give kids more opportunity.

Early Life
Recently, basketball has become much more prevalent in Canada – a nation typically associated with ice hockey by outsiders. However, since the Toronto Raptors won their first NBA championship in 2019, the sport has surged in popularity across Canada, with many young people aspiring to play the sport professionally.

Veteran global basketball instructor Jamil Abiad couldn’t be more pleased with this news, and he’s more than ready to help train and mentor the next generation of Canadian players. By the time the Raptors won their first championship, Jamil Abiad was already a highly accomplished player turned trainer committed to several coaching programs for junior and senior basketball athletes, mainly through his businesses NL Fitness and his U17/U19 boys program Team Believe. Jamil Abiad’s philosophy behind the creation of Team Believe is to make sure that young athletes develop a sincere belief in their ability to achieve their dreams. By instilling things like volunteer work and a minimum grade-point average, Jamil has used Team Believe to help athletes become more than just great players, but great members of society as well. Growing up in Ottawa, Jamil Abiad actually got his first start as a soccer player before being introduced to basketball at age 12. Discovering he had an immediate passion for the sport, Jamil leapt at every opportunity to self-improve and train so he could play at a professional level one day.

Through hard work and dedication, Jamil advanced to play University level basketball at Bishop’s University, where he earned several accolades including RSEQ Silver Medallist and RSEQ Champion. Being of average height, Jamil was frequently told he could not achieve success as a basketball player, but he proved his critics wrong time and time again.