Chennai: Pro League Basketball Academy, an initiative to promote and develop basketball both at grassroots and professional level, was recently started in Chennai, India on 2nd January 2011. The main reason behind the launch of the initiative is to tap the talent and groom and develop them into better players. To accomplish these objectives, the academy will be organizing several events such as talent hunts, inter-school and inter-college basketball tournaments to pick the right talent. The selected talent will be groomed and trained by the academy, and also will be provided opportunities to play for club teams in the tournaments. Some of the major areas of focus of the academy are grassroots development, women players development, rural basketball development.

Women’s basketball development – PLBA STARS

Further to this, PLBA will be coaching and managing PLBA-STARS, a women’s basketball team in Chennai. The aim of the team is to give tournament exposure to developing players. The main idea behind this initiative is to provide the women basketball players, an exposure to the professional tournaments. The main focus of this initiative is to promote basketball among women, to increase participation of women players, and to provide platform for the budding women players to perform in tournaments. The team players will be selected through a series of events, tournaments and camps to be organized by PLBA and will be trained for playing in the tournaments. The team is currently looking for sponsorship in order to facilitate development and player growth and strive for even better results in the future.