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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 […]

The stage was set for a showdown when two opposing factions of the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) called two separate Annual General Meetings (AGM) in two different cities on two different days. The purpose of both these meetings was to select a new executive committee – including a new BFI president – for the […]

By tradition, India’s senior national basketball championship – or the ‘Senior Nationals’ – are held in the transition period between one calendar year and another. Although there have been exceptions on the schedule every now and then, for most of India’s finest hoop players, the New Year’s celebrations have been held in preparation or during […]

Press Release, Chennai, 14th March 2014: BFI, in association with FIBA will be organizing the fourth leg of the FIBA Level I Coaching Certification Course in Chennai at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium from 14th-20th March 2014 after an overwhelming response from local and outstation basketball coaches for the first three. After Mumbai and Delhi, the third leg of […]

· Thyagaraj Sports Complex, New Delhi, to host national finals from December 15-21. National championship matches to be held on December 21. · 40 teams from 10 cities will vie for a prize purse of Rs.43 lakhs · Players and coaches to participate in clinics conducted by National Senior Mens Coach Scott Flemming and National Strength & […]