Mumbai: Elite Pro Basketball League is a 5x5 pro basketball league featuring 12 teams filled with Indian players. They held a try-out in May in Hyderabad, which saw over 250 athletes attending it. Now the team has announced two more try outs in October to give another platform for basketball players to try their hand at playing in the biggest basketball league ever organised in India. The league is organised by Elite Pro Basketball and is scheduled to begin matches in January 2023.
The first round of try-outs saw names from the Indian basketball team like Jagdeep Singh Bains, Pratham Singh, K Ravikumar, Vinay Kaushik, Rachit Singh, Prakash Mishra, and Arshdeep Singh, among others. Out of the 250 odd athletes the league signed over 100 players to play in different teams in the league. The team has been receiving calls from across India asking for more try outs and opportunities to be a part of the league which has compelled the organisers to announce two more try outs one in Chennai between 8-10 October and another in Delhi from 28-30 October 2022.
With 12 marquee players already signed, the organisers have signed another 100 or so players who will be playing in the league. These include basketball players from the Indian team and also athletes who excelled in the first try out. Manik Ohlan, Zeemamudin, Shiv Khoiwal, Prasanna Venkatesh S, Praveen Kumar C, Jeevanantham, Baladhaneshwar Poiyamozhi, Gaurav Ohlan, Sunil Rathee, Akshay Adhana, Abhishek Rathee, Abhishek Tyagi, Vikas Mor, Princepal Singh Bajwa, Siddhant Shinde, Himanshu Sharma, and Abhudaya Yadav are a few of the other top names who have been recently signed by the league.
Elite Pro Basketball CEO Sunny Bhandarkar said, "The response we have got is immense. A lot of people who couldn’t make it to the try outs had reached out to us asking if we could hold another try out as they wanted to be a part of the biggest basketball league in India. Hence, we decided to not have one but two try outs to give budding basketball players a chance to showcase their talent. Through this league and everyone’s support, we want to revolutionise the sport of basketball in India and we will leave no stone unturned till we achieve this goal."
