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Basketball player Satnam Singh first Indian-born to be drafted in NBA League

by IBNS 26 Jun 2015, 09:00 am

New Delhi, June 26 (IBNS) Satnam Singh Bhamara has become the first Indian-born player to be drafted in NBA league as Dallas Mavericks has picked up the Punjab hoopster for the team.

He is set to  become only only second basketball player of Indian-origin - aecfter Sim Bhullar - to feature in the NBA, reports said.

The 7 feet 1 inches tall hoopster from the IMG Academy in the United States, is one of 91 players  who were nominated as early entry candidates for the 2015 NBA Draft, presented by State Farm.

At almost 16 years of age, Satnam - hailing from Barnala in Punjab - became the youngest player to represent India at the 26th Asian Basketball Championship at Wuhan in China in 2011.

 Satnam has been training in Florida for the last five years along with youths of 39 countries on an initiative of the IMG Reliance Academy.

Although Canadian-born Sim Bhullar became the NBA's first player of Indian descent this past year, Singh would be the first player actually born on the subcontinent to make the league.