Player Tracker 11

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. […]

  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 […]

With 22-year-old Gursimran ‘Sim’ Bhullar making the leap to the NBA as the first player of Indian descent — thanks to a 10 day contract offered by the Vivek Ranadive owned Sacramento Kings — the time is ripe to begin our new column tracking key player movements. Apart from Sim Bhullar and Satnam Singh, there are dozens of […]

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: […]

With the new academic year for 2019-20 upon us, there has been a slew of announcements around Indian basketball players abroad, who have committed to North American high schools and colleges as student-athletes. This is both a heartening as well as disconcerting sign. It shows that India’s upcoming basketball talent is on par with the […]