00:00Basketball is a national championship, followed by a state championship.
00:05In the state championship, the district players participate.
00:10Before that, there is a championship at the block level.
00:13Naturally, the best selected players represent the district first.
00:17After that, if they play well, they come to the state level.
00:21And naturally, when they play at the national level,
00:24the best players will get a chance to play in the league.
00:28And naturally, when the league starts, the villages,
00:31as soon as the people who are interested in the game find out
00:35that they can also make their career in basketball,
00:38then more and more people will be attracted to basketball.
00:41We will do the showcase season first, season 1.
00:43We are aiming to start next month, January 2025.
00:48We will start the showcase season with 6 teams.
00:51We have planned the finals and semi-finals in Abu Dhabi.
00:55We have made an international setup.
00:57We have a team from Delhi, a team from Gujarat, a team from Punjab,
01:02a team from Mumbai, a team from Chennai, and a team from Hyderabad.
01:05This is a very historic moment.
01:07This is one of the largest leagues in the world.
01:10India has a population of 1.4 billion.
01:13There has been no such initiative in the past.
01:16This is an international setup.
01:18We want to do it on a very large scale.
01:20Basketball has such a great ecosystem in schools.
01:25After that, the pathway ends.
01:27We have no shortage of players, no shortage of talent.
01:30We have a shortage of coaches.
01:32We have understood this.
01:34We want to make players with the right talent.
01:38There is no shortage of talent in India.
01:40We will do it at the competition level and make it as entertaining as possible.
01:45Every season will be special.
01:47Of course, it has been almost 50 years in India,
01:51but we don't have a proper league system.
01:53Three months before we started,
01:55we tied up with the NBA School League.
02:00We want to fill up the mid-age.
02:03That's why we are going to start U25 Indian Pro League.
02:08It will help our mid-age boys.
02:13In the future, we are going to start a girls' league also.
02:16Definitely, our players will get financial independence.
02:21Appointing foreign coaches will also help our new talents.
02:30It's a new era of the league system.
02:34Six teams, 36 players Indian players, 36 foreign players.
02:37It is going to be a good fight.
02:40Semi-final and final is Abu Dhabi.
02:44Why did we partner with INBL Pro?
02:47INBL Pro is trying to establish development opportunities for young men and women in India.
02:55We know that basketball is a growing sport and a very popular sport in India.
03:00In New Zealand, we have a very passionate basketball population
03:05and a rising Indian population as well.
03:08We have professional leagues in New Zealand.
03:11For us to be able to provide an opportunity to the people of India to come and play in New Zealand,
03:16for young men and women to become international players,
03:19it's something that we can do and we are very much looking forward to it.
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