Upcoming Events
Native American Heritage Game Powered by NABI
Saturday, January 4, 2025 at Sun Ute Community Center
Navajo Technical University @ Fort Lewis College
Women’s Game at 5:30 p .m. | Men’s Game at 7:3o p.m.
Monday, April 7, 2025
Whirlwind Golf Club | Chandler, Arizona
Check-in: 6:30 a.m.
Start-time: 8:00 a.m.
Registration opens January 1, 2025
More information: birdease.com/NABIFoundersGolfClassic
- Challenged the NCAA to change their “same state rule” to respect tribal sovereignty, thus allowing NABI to become the first all-Native American basketball tournament sanctioned by the NCAA and opening up NCAA sanctioning to all tribal tournaments-in all sports (2007).
- First All Native American tournament to partner with an NBA/WNBA teams (Phoenix Suns/Phoenix Mercury) and a global sporting company (NIKE). NABI Championship games are played at Footprint Center. NABI was NIKE N7’s (native line) largest marketing platform (2007-2022).
- NABI self-produced team uniforms under the NABI Nation merchandise brand (2023) ending the relationship with NIKE. Uniforms were designed by the Phoenix Suns creative team and featured on center court of a Phoenix Suns game (2023). NABI Nation merchandise has become popular among NBA players and has been seen on players Kyrie Irving/Dallas Mavericks and MarJon Beauchamp/Milwaukee Bucks.
- Continues to grow team participation annually by 20%
- Featured on Religion of Sports produced by Tom Brady, Micheal Strahan and Gotham Chopra. (2018)
- Launched NABI.Network to establish a free platform to stream NABI games and increase and promote sponsors (2021).
- Semi-finals & Championship games featured on ESPN+ (2022).
- NABI 20-year relationship with the Phoenix Suns inspired their “OrigiNativ” city edition uniforms and court, with their OrigiNativ merchandise breaking all previous Phoenix Suns merchandise sales records (2022).
- NABI sponsored a permanent wall display of the 22 Arizona Tribal Seals at the Footprint Center, home of the Phoenix Suns. The wall was displayed at the first OrigiNativ game (2022).
- Annual sponsor of the Phoenix Mercury Native American Night. Game among highest grossing game in tickets sales.
- Featured on Overtime Sports social media platform (2023).
- Social Media reach of over 2.1 million (2024).
- Awarded over $600K in scholarships, grants and donated basketball courts to Native American students and communities (2003-2024).
- Contributed over $500K to Phoenix area partnering gyms for sports programs and Native American student programs (2003-2024).
- Brings an annual economic impact of $3M+ to the city of Phoenix.
- Endorsed tournaments organized by MarJon Beauchamp/Milwaukee Bucks, Navajo Nation and Ak-Chin Indian Community (2024).
- Broke an all-time record of 196 teams competing in NABI representing over 184 tribal nations from the U.S, Canada and New Zealand (2024).
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