Senior National Basketball Championship 13

5th January 2017: A press release by the Karnataka State Basketball Association (KSBBA) announced the men’s and the women’s squad selected to represent the state at the 67th Senior National Basketball Championship scheduled to be held in Puducherry from January 7 to 14, 2017. A Aravind will lead the men’s team and M K Bhandavya is […]

  Puducherry, 7th January 2017: The prestigious 67th Senior National Basketball Championship tipped off today at the Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Puducherry. The championship is being organised by the Puducherry Basketball Association under the aegis of the Basketball Federation of India. Last year’s runners up, Kerala women opened with a comfortable 66-21 win over […]

A tall bald foreign male can be seen at almost every major basketball related event in India— intently watching proceedings, conducting training sessions or else signing autographs. He is ubiquitous— a messiah of the hardwood— considered by many Indians as the real face of the NBA— not Kobe, Lebron or Dwight. Who is this man you ask? […]

  Puducherry, 9th January 2017: On the morning of Day 3 of the 67th Senior National Basketball Championship, the Indian Railways men looked like a cohesive unit in their win against Chhattisgarh. Led by the scoring of 2016 NBA D-League draftee Palpreet Singh (30 points), the Railways dominated the second half to close out on […]

Kerala’s Jeena Skaria PS was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) at the just concluded 70th Senior National Basketball Championship 2019. In other words, it was confirmed yet again that Jeena is among the best women’s basketball players of her generation. Last season, Jeena became the only current Indian woman’s basketball player to play abroad, with […]