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THE NBA’s LA CLIPPERS HONOR INDIA REPUBLIC DAY
THE NBA’s LA CLIPPERS HONOR INDIA REPUBLIC D...
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...
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Q & A with Alexander Bucan
Q & A with Alexander Bucan...
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...
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Bollywood meets Kobe Bryant
Bollywood meets Kobe Bryant...
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....
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UD delegation promotes basketball in India
UD delegation promotes basketball in India...
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...
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Inside the NBA’s Play for India
Inside the NBA’s Play for India...
By Sean Gregory | Time Magazine NBA commissioner David Stern has already executed a beautiful pivot move into China, where, thanks in part to Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, hoops is hotter than Sichuan cooking. There’s still work to be done in Europe, even though it is now a source of many NBA players, including seven Frenchmen and six Slovenes. Before the season, the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns played...
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NBA’s new frontier: India
NBA’s new frontier: India...
By Sam Dolnick | The Associated Press 7/12/2008 - 7/13/08 NEW DELHI — Could LeBron James or Shaquille O’Neal catch on in the Hindi heartland? The NBA certainly hopes so as it plans a major push to introduce basketball to India and expand its already formidable global reach into a country with a soaring economy, a growing appetite for Western tastes, and, most importantly, 1.1 billion potential fans. The NBA has...
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NBA China - A Brief Case Study in Success
NBA China - A Brief Case Study in Success...
1985, the popularity of basketball in China was similar to what it is India today. Recognizing that China had the world’s largest potential fan base, many grass roots efforts were made by the Chinese government, local organizations, and the NBA, to promote the game of basketball. Today, largely accelerated by the international pop star success of Yao Ming, - NBA China is a 2 Billion-dollar organization, according...
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Still Dribbling
Still Dribbling...
Railways guard Prakash Mishra, fished out of Indore – a fast-developing basketball nursery – highlights the hazy spotlight that falls on his sport. “In the cities, they are unwilling to give us even a first look, though NBA-popularity is at an all-time high. In villages, they confuse us with volleyball. We’ve never really got our own audience. It is a team-game, and there’s not much in it right now. But...
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Small Town, Tall Talk
Small Town, Tall Talk...
With Sikar as his starting point, Ramkumar, one of India’s best known shooters who hails from Kota, and is now the Indian Railways Coach, has taken it upon himself to go across the country scouting for the big boys. What Ramkumar has done through his champion Railways squad is to: hunt down talent from India’s remote interiors, polish their skills, and throw them into the exhibition ring, where the city-spectator...
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