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  ‘SUPREME COURTS’ Powered by Standing at a busy intersection a little away from Corporation Circle, the Kanteerava dome holds its own in the Bengaluru skyline. For non-Karnataka basketball folk, the first introduction to the name Kanteerava is usually by way of a Wikipedia article during a random Google search on “India National Basketball Team.” […]

[Originally published on NBA.COM, as part of its ‘Court Chronicles’ series, around December 2016.] What was supposed to be a lazy morning turned magical. * Haryana basketball first came to my attention two years ago, when its men’s team dismantled mighty northern neighbours Punjab in the Senior National Championship. So it was with considerable curiosity that […]

Mumbai Basketball Court at St Andrews High School in Bandra was transformed thanks to an Adidas India initiative, by French urban artist Chifumi Krohom in collaboration with St+art India. https://www.instagram.com/p/CXYZhwyBX3E/ Tokyo Olympics medalists Mirabai Chanu and Lovlina Borgohain, along with boxer Simranjit Chakar were present at the reopening ceremony. https://www.instagram.com/p/CXYbS8zpgX2/ Children from Hi5 Youth Foundation (sports-NGO, dedicated […]

Udaipur Basketball Court at Gandhi Ground features artist Ravi Soni’s Tree of Life sketch that has entered the Guinness World Records. https://www.instagram.com/p/CY5xQGMhDyH/ As reported in the Indian Express, the drawing of size 629.98 sq m broke the previous record of 568.47 sq m set by an Italian artist in 2020. The 42-year-old artist worked at the Udaipur basketball court […]