Ludhiana Basketball Academy 10

Ludhiana, 8th May 2018: The 69th Junior National Basketball Championship for Men and Women tipped off on 7th May 2018 at the Ludhiana Basketball Academy in Guru Nanak Stadium, Ludhiana. The championship is being organised by Punjab Basketball Association under the aegis of the Basketball Federation of India. Tamil Nadu girls and Punjab boys are the […]

Image credits: FIBA.comFormer Indian player, Jagdeep Singh Bains also named as “Jaggi” by his teammates, hails from Ganganagar in Rajasthan. He started playing basketball in 2002. Initially for a year, he played one school nationals for Rajasthan. Thereafter, he was approached by late Coach S. Subramanian to join the Ludhiana Basketball Academy. Bains agreed, and […]

17-year-old twins Gaurav and Saurabh Patwal are on a spectacular basketball journey stretching from their local school in the foothill of the Himalayas, to joining the famed Ludhiana Basketball Academy where they were mentored by Satnam Singh, and now moving to a high school in Arizona, USA. This is their story. *** Gaurav signs off hurriedly at around 10: […]

Amritpal Singh’s latest achievement adds to the long list of successes of the Ludhiana Basketball Academy In the early 2000s, a diminutive basketball coach from Tamil Nadu worked his way up north the country, thousands of kilometres away, and found career nirvana in Punjab. It was here that the legendary coach Dr Sankaran Subramanian began […]

This profile was originally published in Tadpoles Magazine and can be accessed here.  Arshpreet Singh Bhullar is a breath of fresh air. While most of his Punjab teammates on the junior Indian basketball team are centres and forwards, Bhullar is a classic two guard with a jumpshot as smooth as silk. “Before every competitive match […]