Basketball
- Middle East
NBA’s Jaylen Brown, ex-player Tacko Fall perform Umrah
Days after winning the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP), Boston Celtics star wing Jaylen Brown, alongside former NBA star Tacko Fall, performed Umrah in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, July 8.…
- Middle East
Dubai Basketball announces Coca-Cola Arena as home venue
Dubai Basketball, a newly established sports franchise, has announced the Coca-Cola Arena as its home venue. Under the milestone agreement, Dubai’s first sports franchise team will be the official anchor tenant of…
- Middle East
Emirates becomes official global airline partner of NBA
Dubai-based Emirates Airlines on Thursday, February 8, was named as the official global airline partner of the National Basketball Association (NBA), marking a multiyear partnership between the two entities. With this collaboration,…
- Middle East
Watch: Basketball player Kyrie Irving dons keffiyeh during post-match presser
Australian-American basketball player Kyrie Irving has made headlines for donning keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian scarf, during a post-match press conference on Saturday. The gesture was a demonstration of solidarity with Palestinians and…
- Delhi
Elite Women’s Pro Basketball League try-out in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata
Delhi: Elite Women’s Pro Basketball League, India’s first-of-its-kind 5×5 Pro Basketball League for women, features six teams filled with rosters of top-level Indian players. The organizers held India’s biggest basketball try-out for…
- World
Kirpan-wielding Sikh says he was denied entry to NBA game in US
New York: A Sikh man has claimed that he was denied entry to a basketball match in the US because he was carrying a ‘kirpan’ — a small dagger, which practising Sikhs…
- Opinions
Safai Karamchari’s daughter, national level basketball player cracks medical school
Chandigarh: Sector 25 is in Chandigarh. And it is not. Tiny lanes, labyrinths, people sitting on charpoys outside their homes….a sharp contrast to the city’s clinical and brutalist architecture. But it is…
- Middle East
Fatima Reyadh, first woman to coach men’s basketball team in Bahrain
Manama: A woman from Bahrain broke gender barriers and became a coach for a men’s basketball team, amid acceptance and understanding between her and the team members after her ability to lead…
- Featured News
Mohammed Rizwan–An Officer and an outstanding hoopster
M Somasekhar In any gathering his tall and lanky frame would stand out. But, what distinguishes Mohammed Rizwan is his ‘humility and commitment’. A man who always kept a low profile, though…
- Sports
Kashmir’s Inshah Bashir is climbing dreams on a wheelchair with basketball
Srinagar: Kashmir’s first wheel-chair basketball player, Inshah Bashir, a native of Budgam district, who represented India in the US in 2019, and participated in the National Championship as the captain of the…
