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The News 9 basketball‬ panel discussion with the Indian senior men’s team is out on YouTube. They called Joginder, “Narender”, and Akhilan as “Akhilam”, but all said and done, glad to have the Indian basketball men’s team on television. The panel featured BFI Head of Operations Himamshu Dabir, point guards Joginder Singh Saharan, Akilan Pari, small […]

This post was originally published on tadpoles.in on June 9, 2014, and can be accessed here. “Hey, well played man”, said Coach Lebron James, simultaneously high fiving one of his players, a young 5ft 9 inch 23-year-old man from Tamil Nadu by the name of Akilan P. The occasion was the 2013 All Star Weekend in […]

  This special Independence Day feature was originally published in Tadpoles.in on 15th August, 2014 and can also be accessed here. On the eve of India’s 68th Independence Day, we learn from the nation’s top basketballers on what it means to play for India. All these players have represented the country either at the junior […]

The winners of the South Asian Basketball Association (SABA) Championship will qualify for the FIBA Asia Cup taking place in Lebanon in August this year. The winner also ensures qualification for its country’s top club team in the FIBA Asia Champions Cup – a tournament where the premier club teams of Asian countries go head […]

China is all set to host the BRICS Games 2017 from 17-21 June 2017 in Guangzhou city. This year’s BRICS games will feature basketball for men, volleyball for women (under- 20 age group), and wushu for men and women. The tournament will be played in a round robin league format. India has made two changes […]