CAIRO (FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2017) - Have you ever wanted to try your hand at being a basketball commentator? Thanks to FIBA and Spalk, you can now call the best youth games of the year.

The International Basketball Federation is teaming up with the crowd-sources sports commentary platform to offer fans the chance to commentate games of their favorite teams at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2017 taking place in Cairo, Egypt (July 1-9).

Here's how it works:

• Get on your laptop and sign up for a free commentator account on spalk.co;
• Choose the game(s) you want to call and click 'Notify Me' to be alerted before a game starts;
• When the game you want to commentate goes live, go to game page on Spalk and click 'Commentate Now'.

It's that simple. What's more, viewers from all around the world can pick and choose their favorite commentator based on style, language, team/player bias and more.

Equipment requirements

• Laptop with google chrome
• Stable internet connection
• Free Spalk account
• External microphone (optional)

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