Maddox InternationalBasketball Residencies

Elite Basketball Development Delivered Anywhere In The World

Programs

The program’s length adjusts to the exact needs of your school; one of three formats generally fits. Programming integrates into existing Physical Education periods, or runs before or after school.

Two-Week Residency

  • 5+ hours of basketball instruction per student, per week.
  • Individualized skill development and team concepts, with post-residency player development plans.
  • Offered alongside: a school-wide keynote (themes: goal setting; success, failure & always growing; the Olympic journey), a basketball pathways session — parents encouraged to attend — and a school-facilitated Q&A with Kareem.

Goals: meaningful skill development and goal-setting habits; for those who want it, the inspiration and knowledge to keep improving at basketball; and an understanding of why good habits matter in basketball and in life — with a few good ones already in place.

Four-Week Residency

Everything in the Two-Week Residency, plus:

  • Progress toward intermediate and advanced basketball skills and team concepts.
  • Optional school-community 3v3 basketball tournament.

Goals: build and practice good basketball and life habits, and a goal-setting framework that outlasts the residency.

Basketball Intensive

  • 2–3 days of basketball clinics tailored to age groups, with an optional keynote.
  • Goal-setting, a coach/teacher roundtable, and the parent pathway session.
  • A basketball and 3x3 workshop for coaches and PE teachers — practice plans and formats they can keep running after the residency.

Goals: to have fun, inform, and inspire students to develop good habits in sports and life — and provide a toolkit to continue with basketball.

All Basketball Experience Levels Encouraged, from Ages 8 to 18.

Maddox International works with the teachers and coaches who know the students best to customize the program for the needs of the school. Generally, two bands work well.

Elementary & Primary School

Grades 3 to 7

The goal is to give students the chance to fall in love with the game and get excited about playing basketball. These sessions run anywhere from 45 to 75 minutes and are built around fun, fundamentals, and skill development through small-sided games. Lots of touches, limited dead time, and scaled to their size. When possible, we use lower rims and smaller basketballs.

High & Secondary School

Grades 8 to 12

Still built around joy for the game of basketball, these sessions can run up to 90 minutes. In addition to skill development, students learn pro-level tactics, begin to develop basketball IQ, and practice decision-making in game situations. Interested students take away basketball development tools and tricks to continue long after the residency ends.

*Every session emphasizes the importance of a dynamic warm-up for injury prevention, no matter the sport or activity.

How it works
  • Once dates are finalized, Maddox International handles travel and lodging logistics, unless your school requests otherwise. School-specific safeguarding and insurance requirements are addressed during planning.
  • Keynote speech, goal-setting workshops, and good-habit emphasis — workshopped with the school to meet the needs of a unique student body.
  • Students play basketball from the first session. We value joy and friendly competition over repetitive “drill work.”

What the school provides

  • One half-court minimum. Indoor preferred; a safe outdoor court can work.
  • School staff available and present during all student programming.
  • Any school-specific context or preferences regarding the residency.

Where this has run

Khartoum International Community School

Three weeks. Approximately 40 students, ages 6–18. Daily instruction integrated into the PE schedule across elementary, middle, and high school.

Concordia International School Shanghai

Three days by invitation. More than 40 students, elementary through high school. A school-wide keynote alongside instruction and live play.

About Kareem
Portrait of Kareem Maddox in a Team USA jacket Kareem Maddox in a USA jersey on the 3x3 court at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Kareem Maddox was a 2024 Olympian for the USA on the 3x3 basketball team. For the USA, he earned five gold medals, including two Pan American Games Titles and the USA’s first FIBA 3x3 World Cup Gold. He coached a USA Basketball team to a gold at the 2026 FIBA 3x3 Champions Cup in Bangkok, and spent three seasons in player development with the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves.

In parallel with his playing career, Kareem built a decade in professional broadcasting — hosting live news on NPR member stations, producing 100+ episodes of Gimlet Media’s The Pitch, and creating and hosting The Greatness, an eight-episode Olympic anthology series under the NBC Sports umbrella. A Princeton English Literature graduate, team captain, and Ivy League champion, he now delivers basketball residencies for international schools — elite instruction carried by the mentorship, speaking, and storytelling craft of a career spent communicating for a living.

Kareem is committed to bringing high-level basketball education to every corner of the world, and to opening pathways to elite development from anywhere.

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