In India, basketball is a popular sport with a multiple club league system, as well as state and national teams.

Indian basketball made significant improvements, most notably in 2015, making them one of the top emerging continental teams.

The country's first match is recorded as 1930 by some sources,[5] with the first Indian National Championship for men being held in 1934 in New Delhi.

These basketball associations are working with a common view of popularising the game in all parts of the country.

Apart from that, developing the overall infrastructure for the game and uncovering new talent from the grassroots level are some of the other principal objectives of the Indian basketball associations.

[9] The tournament was folded in 2017 after it completed its fourth season and in 2022 the league was replaced with the EPBL and the developmental INBL.

Late in 2008, NBA great Robert Parish came to India as part of the NBA/WNBA Hoop School Program.

This relationship further expanded into a cultural exchange, which saw Bollywood superstars Lara Dutta and Dino Morea make a trip to watch the Los Angeles Lakers in action, and on 8 April 2009, saw the NBA inaugurate a refurbished basketball court in a Mumbai suburb.

[10] In April 2015, Canadian Sim Bhullar made his professional debut in the NBA,[11] becoming the first player of Indian descent[12] in the league.

IMG chief Ted Fortsmann and Reliance owner Mukesh Ambani see the IPL as a perfect model to use.