Punjab Basketball 21

A few weeks ago, Punjab baller Anmolpreet Kaur made history by becoming the first Indian girl to get a scholarship to play high school basketball in Japan. Anmolpreet has started her basketball career/training from 2 April 2016 officially in Toa Gakuen High School and will be training for 3 years in Tokyo, Japan. We caught up with the young gun days […]

  Former 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 was […]

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: […]

This profile was originally published in Tadpoles Magazine and can be accessed here.  To play or not to play, that is the question in the mind of 18-year-old Dildar Singh Brar. The basketballer from Bhatinda recently represented the junior Indian team at the 2014 FIBA Asia Championships, and now finds himself at the crossroads. “I […]