After gauging the Indian basketball talent from 2011 the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced the setting up of the NBA Academy India at the Jaypee Greens Integrated Sports Complex here on Monday.
The NBA deputy commissioner, Mark Tatum, who had invited Satnam Singh on stage when he was drafted into the NBA in the US in 2015, inaugurated the “world class’’ residential facility by lighting the lamp along with the managing director of NBA India, Yannick Colaco.
All the 21 players who had been selected after trials across the country followed by a National camp, went through the drill on court under the supervision of technical director Ray Farrell and team manager Shiv Kumar.
