IMG Academy 6

The Present. Dressed in a dapper, dark blue single-breasted suit, Satnam Singh Bhamara sat anxiously on the crowded floor of the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, New York. A single Thursday evening in late June had the potential to change the 19-year-old’s life forever, and forever make history for Indian Basketball and the NBA. But nothing […]

A few months ago, Telangana teenager Ambati Prudhvishwar Reddy made the news in Indian basketball circles, when his pathbreaking move to the Europe Basketball Academy (EBA) in Barcelona, Spain came to light. Reddy hopes to graduate from the Academy to become one of the first Indian players in the Euro League. With limited professional opportunities at […]

  Earlier this morning Satnam Singh became the first ever Indian to be drafted in the NBA. He was selected by the Dallas Mavericks with the 52nd pick in the second round of the 2015 NBA Draft. Satnam hails from the tiny village of Ballo Ke in Punjab. In 2010, he was one of the eight recipients […]

  There is one man living a different sort of dream, despite coming from a nation where cricket is the only big sport. From a small village in Punjab, he made it to the front page of every newspaper. Life has changed for Satnam Singh after he’s moved to America, and after his first two summer league […]

Four JIT players to attend 5-week camp at IMG Academy, Florida, the same facility that trained Satnam Singh, India’s first basketballer to get drafted by an NBA team. The camp is from 20th June- 23rd July. Pursuit, the talent management wing of Ekalavyas Consultancy Private Limited, assisted the Managing Director of JIT, Mr N Marie […]