India has won 2nd South Asian Basketball, SABA, Under - 16 Championship. India defeated Bhutan by 131-50 in its last league match at Kathmandu in Nepal. India remained unbeaten in its all four matches and accumulated 8 points.
Bangladesh finished second and host Nepal third.The championship was played in a round robin league format. India has now qualified for 2017 International Basketball Federation, FIBA, Under-16 Asian Championship to be played in Malaysia later this year.
LeBron named Sports Ilustrated's Sportsperson of the Year 2016
Basketball player LeBron James has been chosen as the Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson of the Year, becoming the second athlete ever to win the award twice.
James edged out Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Premier League champions Leicester City, among others. James had led his team Clevel and Cavaliers to the 2016 NBA(National Basketball Association) title and was named NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP).
So, let's discuss some questions related to this post:
Q1. Name of the Basketball player has been chosen as the sports illustrated's sportsperson of the year 2016? Ans1. Leborn James
LOS ANGELES, USA – Yi Jianlian, who is fresh off an appearance with the Chinese national team at the Rio Olympics, has signed a contract with the Los Angeles Lakers, the NBA team announced on Monday, August 22 (Tuesday, August 23 in Manila).
Yi, of Guangdong Province, averaged 20.4 points and 6.6 rebounds in 5 games at the Summer Olympics, which wrapped up on Sunday, August 21 (Monday, August 22 in Manila).
"We're excited to have a player of his worldwide accomplishments," said general manager Mitch Kupchak. "We look forward to bringing him to training camp and hopefully having him make an impact on our team."
Yi, 28, joins a team that has been at or near the bottom of the NBA the past several seasons. To compound their woes, the Lakers lost their top player when future Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant retired at the end of this past season.
The Lakers declined to release details of the contract.
Yi is a former first round draft pick of the Milwaukee Bucks in 2007. He has not played in the NBA since 2012 and has spent the past 4 seasons playing in the Chinese Basketball Association.
His international career includes winning 3 gold medals at the FIBA Asia Championships (2015, 2011, and 2005) and a gold at the 2006 Asian Games.
“We’re excited to have a player of his worldwide accomplishments,” said the Lakers’ general manager Mitch Kupchak in a statement. “We look forward to bringing him to training camp and hopefully having him make an impact on our team.”
Since Yao Ming’s retirement in 2011, China’s men’s basketball team has been in dire straits. During the Rio Olympics, the 28-year-old Yi averaged 20.4 points and 6.6 rebounds in five games during the group stage, where China lost all five games, including a 62-119 loss against the US. China also failed to win a game in London in 2012.
Yi, who was drafted as the 6th overall pick by the Milwaukee Bucks in 2007, last appeared in the NBA with the Dallas Mavericks in the 2011-2012 season. Over his five-year NBA career, the 6’11’’ Yi averaged 7.9 points and 4.9 rebounds per game.
After leaving the NBA, Yi rejoined his home club Guangdong Hongyuan in the Chinese Basketball Association and had been playing for the team since.
Yi becomes the third Chinese player to compete in the NBA in the new season. Earlier in the 2016 NBA draft, young Chinese centers Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin were selected by the Houston Rockets and the Memphis Grizzlies as the 43rd and 57th pick, respectively.
In June, Chinese businessman Jiang Lizhang, who runs a little-known Shanghai-based marketing firm, bought a 5% stake in the the Minnesota Timberwolves, becoming the NBA’s first Chinese minority-owner.
Varanasi, many believe, is the oldest living city in the world, a civilization in perpetual existence for thousands of years. While the outside world was destroyed and rebuilt, Varanasi’s essence remained the same. Devotees begin their day early in the morning, at the crack of dawn, with blessings from the Ganga, moving on to yoga by the ghats, a cup of chai at the Chowk, visits to the Sankat Mochan and Vishwanath temples, Ganga Arti at Dashashwamedha Ghat in the evening, and a final ring of the bell to call it a very early night. The city’s personality is a dual acceptance of discipline of ritual and a creative expression of one’s free-soul, what locals call being ‘mast’. And it is this balance that eventually produced the most unlikely by-product of this ancient city. Not its saris, its carpets, or paan. Not the ghats, lassis, or educational institutions. But a culture of basketball like no other. Specifically, one particular house of hoops – the Singhs – an incredible family of five sisters who have made an indelible mark in contemporary Indian basketball. Varanasi’s Singh Sisters – Priyanka (36), Divya (33), Prashanti (30), Akanksha (27), and Pratima (26) – have made basketball a family business. Divya, Prashanti, Akanksha, and Pratima have all played for the Indian National team, and two of them have even been national captains. Priyanka played for the UP State team. And Divya, now, is blossoming into one of India’s finest young basketball coaches. Prashanti, sister number three and a national team regular, credits the energy of her hometown to her family’s basketball success. “The vibration in Varanasi is very different,” she says. “You step into the city – people come from across the world and feel different there. There are cultural differences and difficulties everywhere, but there is a positive feeling here. It’s a simple place. People are sensitive and focused because there aren’t many distractions.” “There is no nightlife, so we have early mornings! For Indian sportsperson, this is required: to be a morning person. The lifestyle of Varanasi both mast and disciplined. It’s an amazing place, and in our case, it really helped.” Unlike a lot of stories of Indian athletes, the Singh Sisters had no pedigree of sports in the previous generation. Their father is a Senior Branch Manager at Allahabad Bank in the Shivpur area of the city and the mother a former teacher turned housewife. The sisters, however, took advantage of the Udai Pratap (UP) College to hone their basketball skills, in a golden era for the city when one coach, Amarjeet Singh, at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) center helped briefly make Varanasi into the basketball capital of the nation. Prashanti also credits the intellectual culture in the city for making the sisters into cerebral as well as physical players. “This city,” Prashanti says. “It’s not fashionable, but it’s intellectual. People may look simple, but they are intelligent.” “All of us [sisters] have a strong academic background because of our father, who attended IIT Kharagpur. We had no sports background, even though we had the physical ability, a natural built from our village ancestors. But basketball requires more than that; it’s not an easy game. It’s a game that requires quick decision-making. Only physical ability doesn’t help, this is a smart person’s game. We always had to focus on intelligence and academics, and that helped us a lot.” Like the devotees by the ghats, the sisters followed their own ritual in the city. Basketball practice in the morning, school, and more basketball practice repeated with absolute discipline to perfect their basketball skills. But basketball is more than a game of discipline; and it took a dash of local creativity – that mast personality – to turn these players into star athletes for India and at the international level. Will the future generations in the city, and around the country, follow the Singhs’s examples? “People are definitely very interested in helping the sport in the city, but nothing is happening yet,” Prashanti says, “Despite this being the Prime Minister’s constituency, sports here is ignored. We have to improve infrastructure and we need a good indoor court in this city. Basketball is a global, A-grade sport. We deserve more.” You can follow writer KARAN MADHOK on Twitter @Hoopistani. Source By: india.nba.com
Break out your "Basketball Never Stops" T-shirts because Olympic basketball is here to get us through the month of August. Play begins on August 6 for the men and ends with the gold medal game on August 21. Here are the groups, schedule, TV listings and more for the men's basketball competition in Rio, which is headlined by Team USA.
Format
Twelve teams are divided into two groups of six. The top four teams from each group (based on record and points) advance to single elimination bracket play.
TV and Stream
The Olympic Games will be broadcast on various NBC networks. Those include NBC, Telemundo, Bravo, CNBC Golf Channel, MSNBC, NBC Sports Network, NBC Universo and USA Network. NBCOlympics.com is where you'll be able to stream all the matches live.
(All times ET)
Groups and Schedule
GROUP A
GP
W
L
+/-
PTS
USA
2
2
0
101
4
Australia
2
2
0
36
4
Serbia
2
1
1
9
3
France
1
1
1
7
3
Venezuela
2
0
2
-68
2
China
1
0
2
-85
2
Schedule
Saturday, August 6Australia 87, France 66 USA 119, China 62 Serbia 86, Venezuela 62
Wednesday, August 10Serbia vs. France, 1:15 p.m. -- (USA, NBCOlympics.com) USA vs. Australia, 6 p.m. -- (NBCSN, NBCOlympics.com) Venezuela vs. China, 9:30 p.m. -- (Basketball Specialty Channel, NBCOlympics.com)
Friday, August 12 China vs. Australia, 1:15 p.m. -- (Basketball Specialty Channel, NBCOlympics.com) USA vs. Serbia, 6 p.m. -- (NBCSN, NBC Universo, NBCOlympics.com) France vs. Venezuela, 9:30 p.m. -- (Basketball Specialty Channel, NBCOlympics.com)
Sunday, August 14 USA vs. France, 1:15 p.m. -- (NBCSN, NBCOlympics.com) Australia vs. Venezuela, 6 p.m. -- (Basketball Specialty Channel, NBCOlympics.com) Serbia vs. China, 9:30 p.m. -- (Basketball Specialty Channel, NBCOlympics.com)
GROUP B
GP
W
L
+/-
PTS
Argentina
1
1
0
28
2
Lithuania
1
1
0
6
2
Croatia
1
1
0
2
2
Spain
1
0
1
-2
1
Brazil
1
0
1
-6
1
Nigeria
1
0
1
-28
1
Schedule
Sunday, August 7 Lithuania 82, Brazil 76 Croatia 72, Spain 70 Argentina 94, Nigeria 66
Tuesday, August 9 Spain vs. Brazil, 1:15 p.m. -- (NBCSN, NBCOlympics.com) Lithuania vs. Nigeria, 6 p.m. -- (Basketball Specialty Channel, NBCOlympics.com) Argentina vs. Croatia, 9:30 p.m. -- (Basketball Specialty Channel, NBCOlympics.com)
Thursday, August 11 Brazil vs. Croatia, 1:15 p.m. -- (USA, NBCOlympics.com) Nigeria vs. Spain, 6 p.m. -- (Basketball Specialty Channel, NBCOlympics.com) Lithuania vs. Argentina, 9:30 p.m. -- (Basketball Specialty Channel, NBCOlympics.com)
Saturday, August 13 Argentina vs. Brazil, 1:15 p.m. -- (USA, NBCOlympics.com) Spain vs. Lithuania, 6 p.m. -- (NBCSN, NBCOlympics.com) Croatia vs. Nigeria, 9:30 p.m. -- (Basketball Specialty Channel, NBCOlympics.com)
Monday, August 15 Nigeria vs. Brazil, 1:15 p.m. -- (MSNBC, NBCOlympics.com) Spain vs. Argentina, 6 p.m. -- (NBCSN, NBC Universo, NBCOlympics.com) Lithuania vs. Croatia, 9:30 p.m. -- (Basketball Specialty Channel, NBCOlympics.com)
Knockout Stages
Quarterfinals
August 17Game 31: Winner Group A vs. Fourth Group B, 10 a.m. -- (USA, NBCOlympics.com) Game 32: Runner-up Group A vs. Third Group B, 1:30 p.m. -- (USA, NBCOlympics.com) Game 33: Winner Group B vs. Fourth Group A, 5:30 p.m. -- (NBCSN, NBCOlympics.com) Game 34: Runner-up Group B vs. Third Group A, 9:00 p.m. -- (NBCSN, NBCOlympics.com)
Semifinals
August 19Game 35: Winner 32 vs. Winner 33, 2:30 p.m. -- (NBCSN, NBCOlympics.com) Game 36: Winner 31 vs. Winner 34, 6 p.m. -- (CNBC, NBCOlympics.com)
Bronze Medal Match
August 21Loser 35 vs. Loser 36, 10:30 a.m. (NBCSN, NBCOlympics.com)
Gold Medal Match
August 21Winner 35 vs. Winner 36, 2:15 p.m. -- (NBC, NBCOlympics.com)
