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InBL Pro: Despite teething troubles, new league attempts to breathe life into Indian basketball | Basketball News

InBL Pro: Despite teething troubles, new league attempts to breathe life into Indian basketball | Basketball News

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When Satnam Singh was picked by the Dallas Mavericks in the 2015 NBA Draft, there was a feeling that it could finally open the doors for Indian basketball players to make a Jordan-esque jump to the NBA. 10 years have gone by and four Indians, including Satnam, have played for the NBA G League but none has made it to the NBA. None managed to stick around for long in the G League either. The start of India’s first-ever international 5×5 basketball league, the Indian National Basketball League Pro (InBL Pro), comes after years of waiting for an international league to take roots in the country. A sport that has been relegated to the state, national and a dwindling international level, has, for long, needed the bare essentials. The InBL Pro aims to address at least some of the problems facing Indian basketball, starting by creating a base for finding and grooming Indian ballers. Currently, a national team player gets roughly 10-15 competitive games a year. The rest of the year is spent practicing in …

ISL Matchday 2: Why won’t ISL clubs invest time in Indian strikers? | Football News

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Sift through previews of the Indian Super League. Notice how many strikers are mentioned in these previews and then notice how many of those names, barring Sunil Chhetri, are Indian. Dmitri Petratos of Mohun Bagan, Dimitrios Diamantakos of Kerala Blasters, Armando Sadiku of FC Goa – the list goes on and Indians rarely make the cut. That has been the story of the Indian Super League – one that refuses to change two weeks into its 11th year of existence. The second game of Matchday 1 between Odisha FC and Chennaiyin FC saw a unique occurrence where two Indian strikers – playing in their positions – faced off against each other. But barring that rare incident, the position of a striker is a strictly expat-level responsibility, one that has affected the Indian national football team in the past and continues to do so. Since the ISL became the top league in India, game-time for Indian strikers has steadily dwindled. This season, Sunil Chhetri either starts from the wing or from the bench – when he …

Leander Paes, Shrachi Group enter into partnership to build sports infrastructure in Kolkata

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Tennis legend Leander Paes and Shrachi Sports Ventures (SSV) entered into a strategic collaboration with an ambition to create an Olympic-level infrastructure in Kolkata with state-of-the-art training facilities under top coaches and systems with structured modules for various age groups across multiple disciplines. This will be India’s first such multi-sports set-up, complete with sports science, analytics, sports medicine and nutrition. “I’m excited about the Shrachi collaboration to create an ecosystem using sport for life, building tomorrow’s India and creating jobs for more Indians,” said Leander, who has won 20 Grand Slam titles in his glittering career. Shrachi Group’s big-bang entry into sports, Managing Director Rahul Todi, who is also the vice-president of East Bengal Club, said, “Our goal is simple. We want Bengal to be at the forefront of the Indian sports movement and Leander as our captain in this initiative. We are extremely happy to have him on board and we are convinced he is just the right person to take our projects to fruition so that we can create a clutch of sustainable …