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Silicon Valley National Junior Basketball offers leagues, clinics, tournaments, and teams that focus on basketball play and instruction. The program includes coaching, officiating, scorekeeping, Skill Development Basketball clinics, and a Rookie Basketball Program that introduces fundamentals in a co-ed setting with lowered rims using drills and structured scrimmages to prepare players for league play. NJB uses a draft system throughout the entire program to keep each team equal in talent and size, and the Griffin method is implemented during play.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Seasonal league and tournament play across spring, summer, fall, and winter, plus a Rookie Basketball Program with Saturday sessions from 9am–12pm
National Junior Basketball (NJB) is a nonprofit youth basketball organization founded in 1984 and promotes the physical, mental, spiritual, moral, and emotional soundness of individual players. Its mission is to inspire youth regardless of race, creed, or national origin, to practice the ideals of health, citizenship, and character, to implant game elements of safety, sanity, and intelligent supervision, to keep the welfare of the player first and free of adult quest for glory, and to emphasize teamwork for all participants. NJB emphasizes that a basketball game is only a game and not the end of the world for participants and promotes sportsmanship and teamwork concepts during the season. Players must play in the respective Silicon Valley NJB Chapter in which they reside, and Silicon Valley NJB offers roles such as referee, coach, and scorekeeper.
Silicon Valley NJB is a section of the Northern California region of National Junior Basketball and, during the winter, is the parent organization to more than 12 NJB chapters across the Bay Area. In the Northern California NJB Region, about 8,500 boys and girls play NJB basketball, and the Silicon Valley Section consists of 14 chapters with over 5,000 players. Silicon Valley chapters include Almaden Valley, Berryessa/Milpitas, Coyote Creek/South San Jose, Evergreen/San Jose, Foothill, Gilroy/Morgan Hill, Hollister, Los Gatos, Palo Alto, Redwood (Menlo Park/Woodside), Saratoga, Sequoia (Redwood City/San Carlos), West San Jose, and Willow Glen.
The National Junior Basketball League was founded by the same family that created the American Basketball Association (ABA), which later became part of the NBA. The organization’s leadership history includes Dennis Murphy Jr., Founder of the National Junior Basketball League, and Dennis Murphy Sr., one of the founders of the ABA that merged with the NBA. Mel Robertson was inducted into the NJB Hall of Fame in 2012 for more than 22 years of service.
Last updated March 19, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Seasonal league and tournament play across spring, summer, fall, and winter, plus a Rookie Basketball Program with Saturday sessions from 9am–12pm
National Junior Basketball (NJB) is a nonprofit youth basketball organization founded in 1984 and promotes the physical, mental, spiritual, moral, and emotional soundness of individual players. Its mission is to inspire youth regardless of race, creed, or national origin, to practice the ideals of health, citizenship, and character, to implant game elements of safety, sanity, and intelligent supervision, to keep the welfare of the player first and free of adult quest for glory, and to emphasize teamwork for all participants. NJB emphasizes that a basketball game is only a game and not the end of the world for participants and promotes sportsmanship and teamwork concepts during the season. Players must play in the respective Silicon Valley NJB Chapter in which they reside, and Silicon Valley NJB offers roles such as referee, coach, and scorekeeper.
Silicon Valley NJB is a section of the Northern California region of National Junior Basketball and, during the winter, is the parent organization to more than 12 NJB chapters across the Bay Area. In the Northern California NJB Region, about 8,500 boys and girls play NJB basketball, and the Silicon Valley Section consists of 14 chapters with over 5,000 players. Silicon Valley chapters include Almaden Valley, Berryessa/Milpitas, Coyote Creek/South San Jose, Evergreen/San Jose, Foothill, Gilroy/Morgan Hill, Hollister, Los Gatos, Palo Alto, Redwood (Menlo Park/Woodside), Saratoga, Sequoia (Redwood City/San Carlos), West San Jose, and Willow Glen.
The National Junior Basketball League was founded by the same family that created the American Basketball Association (ABA), which later became part of the NBA. The organization’s leadership history includes Dennis Murphy Jr., Founder of the National Junior Basketball League, and Dennis Murphy Sr., one of the founders of the ABA that merged with the NBA. Mel Robertson was inducted into the NJB Hall of Fame in 2012 for more than 22 years of service.
Last updated March 19, 2026.
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