Published: 09 Aug 2015 - 09:55 pm | Last Updated: 11 Jan 2022 - 05:04 pm
This photo taken on August 7 shows Indian basketball player Satnam Singh Bhamara (right), who is on the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, hugging his father Balbir Singh Bhamara at the Ludhiana Basketball Academy in Ludhiana. The 7-foot-2-inch (2.18m) Bhamara, 19, became the first India-born player in the NBA when he was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks in June 2015, and said after the pick that he hoped the achievement would kickstart a basketball boom in his cricket-obsessed home country.
