On Tuesday evening, a tight contest was playing out on a brightly lit basketball court in the New Delhi suburb of Greater Noida, with giant posters of Kobe Bryant, Stephen Curry and James Harden overlooking the action. On one half of the court was the Indian senior national team, which is preparing for next month's Asia Cup. On the other half was the home side - the kids of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Elite Academy, set up only a couple of months ago. As expected, the youngsters, the oldest of whom is still two years short of his nineteenth birthday, didn't win.
In India, NBA aims for the hoops that regular basketball has missed
