TJ Sahi 20

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, […]

[An abridged version of this profile ‘Sahi is the Little John of Indian Basketball’ appeared in the youth online magazine tadpoles.in. It can be accessed here.] Some would say that his game reflects his personality: brash, energetic, in your face and always thoroughly entertaining. Talwinderjit Singh (‘TJ’) Sahi has lived and played on the edge. A […]

  Gopalakrishnan R & Vishnu Ravi Shankar, Hyderabad, 17th July 2015: P Vijay of the Pune Peshwas thought it would be an easy left hand layup. A free lane, no defender in sight. But just as he releases the ball onto the glass, a burst of green flies across the paint. In the blink of […]

Youthful, energetic, stylish, humble, lively, explosive…the adjectives fall short when it comes to describing this Punjabi munda. Just 21-years-old, Ranbir Singh Virdi has already secured his place in the Indian Senior Men’s team with his breathtaking crossovers, picture perfect back-spinning jumpers, heady fast breaks and aerial acrobatics. Say hello to the new breed of Indian […]

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 […]