Player Tracker 14

Pallavi Sharma, 6’8, from Kolkata has received a 100% full scholarship from Hakuoh University & High School to stay, study and play basketball in Japan. For the next one year, she will be training at the high school, and then has a chance to play in the college circuit from 2 April 2017 – 31 March 2021. […]

The list of Indian basketball players abroad, committing to high schools and colleges as student-athletes, is steadily growing. This is both a heartening as well as disconcerting sign. It shows that India’s upcoming basketball talent is on par with the rest of the world. More importantly, it brings these players under the radar of top […]

Pune: Indian college baller Yousuf Sayyed made history by scoring 80 points in a single game. This is arguably the second highest ever by an Indian basketball player at any level (male or female). The accomplishment came in the finals of ‘Vedant’, the annual inter-collegiate youth festival organised by BJ Government Medical College, Pune. In […]

  You may know about the first Indian-origin player to play in the NBA – Sim Bhullar. You may have also read about the first Indian player aspiring to play in the NBA – Satnam Singh Bhamara. But did you know that there are other Indian and Indian-origin players who have or are currently playing in […]

17-year-old twins Gaurav and Saurabh Patwal are on a spectacular basketball journey stretching from their local school in the foothill of the Himalayas, to joining the famed Ludhiana Basketball Academy where they were mentored by Satnam Singh, and now moving to a high school in Arizona, USA. This is their story. *** Gaurav signs off hurriedly at around 10: […]