Adam Silver, commissioner of the most powerful and
influential basketball league in the world, sat in the middle of the dais in a
large press room at Mumbai’s NSCI Dome. He was flanked by Vivek
Ranadive and Herb Simon, owners of the two teams who were set to play the
historic first-ever NBA pre-season game in India. It was the setting of a
monumental step forward for basketball in India.
And for the business of basketball, too. Before the first of
the two games between the Sacramento
is a writer and journalist whose fiction, translation, and poetry have appeared in The Literary Review, ANMLY, F(r)iction, The Lantern Review and more. He is the founder and editor of TheChakkar.com. As a basketball journalist, he founded the Indian basketball blog Hoopistani and contributed to NBA India, Firstpost, SLAM Magazine, Caravan, Scroll, and more. He is currently working on his first novel.
