National Basketball Association News

The National Basketball Association became the first US sports franchise to enter India in 2011Major League Baseball is setting up with grass-roots programmes and an IPL tie up to help introduce baseball to India

NBA has partnered with online ticketing platform BookMyShow to promote and market the event in the countryAccording to sports industry experts, the match tickets are expected to start at ₹4,500 going up to over ₹1 lakh, giving fans a wide variety of options to choose from

IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla is now eyeing viewers and earnings at the level of global broadcast giants such as football's English Premier League and America's NBA

Realising the market potential of basketball in the country, the NBA had already opened an elite training centerNBA Academy Indiain Greater Noida in May last year

The former NBA player talks about making basketball more popular in India

The 19-year-old, who hails from a remote village in Punjab and stands 7 feet 2 inches tall, was the 52nd pick in the NBA Draft

The 7ft, 5 inches Bhullar becomes the first Indian-origin cager to get a feel of the NBA

The NBA will receive about twice as much in fees as in the prior contracts

The ruling from US court came at the end of a 3-week trial pitting Sterling against his estranged wife Shelly, who made the deal with Ballmer

Donald Sterling seeks more than $1 billion in damages, claiming the NBA violated his rights by banning him from the sport for life