basketball

#Women Empowerment / Basketball isn’t for girls? Ashreen Mridha says otherwise

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.

Thunder beat Pacers in game seven, cap stunning season with NBA crown

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.

AI just beginning to reshape NBA

Using artificial intelligence, a top basketball team found the right defensive strategy that made the difference to win the NBA championship.

South Sudan's Olympic basketball dream over

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.

Paving the way for inclusivity

Ashreen hopes for a future in which gender labels no longer limit their playgrounds.

China upset Japan to win women's Asia Cup title

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.

Sunnydale Jaguars win Under-19 Basketball Tournament

The Under-19 Basketball Tournament was held on Monday and Tuesday at the basketball court in the new permanent campus of Sunnydale at Bashundhara.

‘Encouragement is key’

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.

LeBron James breaks NBA all-time points-scoring record

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.

June 3, 2016
June 3, 2016

Cagers suffer close loss

Hosts Bangladesh complete their Treat FIBA Asian U-18 Basketball Championship Qualifiers campaign with a heart-breaking 60-64 defeat at the hands of Sri Lanka at the Dhanmondi Basketball Gymnasium.

May 31, 2016
May 31, 2016

Qualifiers start tomorrow

Bangladesh will take on India in the opening match of the Treat FIBA Asia U-18 Basketball Qualifiers, which get underway at the Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium in Mirpur.

April 5, 2016
April 5, 2016

Tokyo dreams fuel Cambodia's first disabled basketballers

Slamming into each other with a metallic crunch, Cambodia's first women's wheelchair basketball team are changing attitudes to disability in a nation where unexploded landmines claim new victims every week but physical impairments are scorned.

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