Ashreen Mridha, co-founder of Deshi Ballers, is redefining women’s basketball in Bangladesh by challenging systemic barriers, empowering female athletes, and building a legacy of leadership, inclusion, and resilience through sport-driven social change.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 29 points and handed out 12 assists and the Thunder's swarming defense finally proved to much for a Pacers team that lost talisman Tyrese Haliburton to a leg injury just seven minutes into the contest.
Using artificial intelligence, a top basketball team found the right defensive strategy that made the difference to win the NBA championship.
South Sudan coach Royal Ivey was highly critical of the officiating as his side's Olympic basketball dreams came to an end as they failed to qualify for the men's quarter-finals in a heartbreaking loss to Serbia.
Ashreen hopes for a future in which gender labels no longer limit their playgrounds.
Giant centre Han Xu sank 26 points as China stunned five-time defending champions Japan 73-71 Sunday to win their first women's Asia Cup basketball title in more than a decade.
The Under-19 Basketball Tournament was held on Monday and Tuesday at the basketball court in the new permanent campus of Sunnydale at Bashundhara.
In conversation with Ashreen Mridha, founder of Deshi Ballers and former shooting guard of the national women’s basketball team, Naziba Basher of The Daily Star delves into some of the deeper questions of why the women are still made to lag behind.
The Los Angeles Lakers star, playing in his 20th season in the NBA, passed Abdul-Jabbar's longstanding total of 38,387 points after nailing a 21-foot shot late in the third quarter against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The Greggs Club and The Gregarious Club notched victories in the Unimed Unihealth Premier Division Basketball League yesterday.
NBA Hall of Famer Yao Ming called for "urgent" reform and said he was facing a multitude of problems as he was elected president of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) on Thursday.
Magic Johnson was named the president of basketball operations for the struggling Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday as one of the NBA's most storied franchises undergoes a major shakeup to the their front office.
Dhaka Gladiators made a flying start to the Federation Cup Basketball tournament with a massive 98-25 win over The Greggs Club in the opening match at the Dhanmondi Basketball Gymnasium yesterday.
The Federation Cup Basket-ball Tournament, involving top six clubs of the country, will get underway at the Dhanmondi Indoor Basketball Gymnasium this morning.
On a team of mostly first-time young Olympians, veterans Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant steal the show as the USA win its third straight gold medal.
It would be easy for the US team of NBA stars to overlook China in Saturday's opening game of the Rio Olympics after routing the Asians twice in pre-Games exhibitions.
Basketball legend Michael Jordan speaks out on police violence and announces two $1 million grants, to civil rights group NAACP's Legal Defense Fund and to a group that works on improving police relations with communities.
LeBron James powers the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 93-89 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Sunday in an electrifying Game Seven to complete an improbable comeback unlike any seen before.
An American female basketball player uses forged birth documents to falsely claim she had South Korean ancestry, prosecutors have claimed.
