Satnam Singh Bhamara 21

I may call myself a die-hard basketball junkie now, but when I was a kid, I wanted to grow up and be Sachin Tendulkar. I wasn’t good at cricket, but I played it a lot because everyone I knew played cricket. From the grassy fields of my school to the concrete gullie behind my house, […]

  The 27th UP Junior State Basketball Championship concluded on 25th June at Seth Anandram Jaipuria School, sector-14, Vasundhara, Ghaziabad. The semi-finals and finals were held at Jaypee Greens Sports Complex, Greater Noida. Varanasi district won the championship in both girls and boys section. They remained undefeated in the tournament with their consistent performances. They […]

  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 […]

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 […]

From the very first time I saw Amrit Pal Singh play basketball, I knew that it was already too late. Back in 2011, Amrit Pal had been one of the new additions to India’s senior national team, led by former Head Coach Kenny Natt to play in the Middle Asia Zone qualifiers in New Delhi. […]