NBA star Yao Ming and Steve Nash will take part in this year's Basketball without Borders instructional camp, reports said on Tuesday from New York.

Point guard Nash of the Pheonix Sun and the NBA's MVP last year, will return to his birthplace South Africa at the camp, which in its sixth year also teaches about such social issues as HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. More than 120 players, coaches and team personnel have taken part.

Nash was born in Johannesburg, which will host a camp in September. Africans Dikembe Mutombo (Congo) and Chicago's Luol Deng (Sudan) will be on that trip.

The camp also will go to Lithuania and Puerto Rico for the first time. It will also return to China. Yao will lead the group that goes to his hometown of Shanghai. Last year's camp was in Beijing.

Source: Xinhua