This is just another huge step for the NBA to reach an Indian audience. The National Basketball Association (NBA) dedicated an entire event to South Asian culture and the desi community in honor of India’s Republic day. The Clippers teamed up with Rukus Avenue to present a Republic Tribute game. The event took place on January 26, 2009 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles during a basketball game between the...

Breaking Old Habits JD Walsh in India. Amongst our several unique nuances, we Indians have a particular slogan, which is repeated multiple times daily by tens of millions, like a mantra across the country’s wide, three million square kilometer area: “Chalta hai.” Translated literally from Hindi, it means ‘it goes.’ The Dictionary of Indian English emphasizes it further as ‘it will do,’ or ‘anything will...

Alexander Bucan watches the most exhilarating action on Indian basketball courts with a face so stoic, you wonder if he’s in India on the spiritual beat – to meditate. But perhaps India, far removed from basketball’s epicenter, even in Asia, needs some dispassionate viewing, to gauge the enormity of the tall-order of raising standards here. Kickstarting preparations for the Asian Basketball Championship in August...

In mid-December, Bollywood actors Lara Dutta and Dino Morea were spotted with US Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant! The hot couple flew out to Los Angeles, California for an all-access VIP weekend with the Los Angeles Lakers. The couple sat in the VIP box alongside Hollywood A-listers, Jack Nicholson and Andy Garcia! The stars were also invited to a Lakers practice where they got to meet their favorite player, Kobe Bryant....

By Neil Thomas | UD Daily “There is no reason why India could not become a basketball power in Asia within the next ten years” says FIBA president Robert Elphinston. Aug. 26, 2008—-A delegation from the University of Delaware traveled to New Delhi, India, in July to conduct a Youth Basketball Management Seminar as part of a U.S. Department of State-funded International Basketball Initiative. The program...