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After a decade long international playing career, ex-India men’s basketball captain CV Sunny continues to dream big for the future of hoops in the country. His 5ft 9 inch frame doesn’t tell us the full story, or maybe it does. A lifetime of overcoming the odds, CV Sunny was a former Indian national men’s basketball […]

  When you think about India’s performance in the Olympic Games, you would imagine our shooters, weightlifters and wrestlers. Apart from the few medals that Indians have won in these categories, India has had little success at the Olympic stage in the recent past. Barring our dominance over the rest of the world in hockey, […]

Image sourced via FIBA.com The photographs of the past – black-and-white, sepia, unfocused, and unclear – tell stories of a million words. Brown-skinned players in tight basketball vests, some wearing turbans, spread across a basketball court, playing with the words भारत (Bharat) in the Devanagari script adorned across their backs. They were making history. For […]

Ram Kumar is a former Indian basketball player and one of the most successful coaches in the country after retirement in 2003. The 2003 Dhyan Chand Awardee is the son of Khushi Ram, also a former Indian basketball player and an Arjuna Awardee. For those who haven’t heard about him, here’s a pretty descriptive Wikipedia article on him. Others in […]

Rohtak, 2nd August 2016: The 1st All India Basketball Tournament for Men, Rohtak tipped off earlier this evening at the Rajiv Gandhi Sports Complex in Sector 6. The tournament is being organised by the Basketball Club of Haryana (BCH) under the aegis of the Haryana State Basketball Association and the Basketball Federation of India. Tournament […]