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{{Infobox sports league
| title = National Basketball Championship
| current_season = 2020–21 National Basketball Championship
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| sport = Basketball
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| founded = 1950<ref name="Naik">[https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/hoop-and-the-hype-basketball-nationals-india-players-6206984/ Hoop and the hype: Meet the promising basketball talent knocking on Team India doors] Shivani Naik ([[The Indian Express]]), 9 January 2020. Accessed 12 January 2021.</ref>
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The '''National Basketball Championship''' is [[India]]’s top basketball tournament.

== 2019 edition ==
2019 marked the 70th time, the Indian Senior National Basketball Championship was held. It took place in the [[Guru Nanak Indoor Stadium]].<ref name="Gopalakrishnan">[https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/70th-national-championship-punjab-men-railways-women-champions 70th National Basketball Championship: Punjab men and Railways women repeat as champions] Gopalakrishnan R ([[Sportskeeda]]), 1 April 2020. Accessed 13 August 2021.</ref>

[[Punjab]] beat arch-rivals [[Tamil Nadu]] 93-75.
The frontcourt of [[Amritpal Singh (basketball)|Amritpal Singh]], [[Amjyot Singh]] and [[Princepal Singh]] was too much for [[Tamil Nadu]], where [[Jeevanantham Pandi]] and [[Aravind Annadurai]] were among the top adversaries. Punjab also featured the backcourt duo of [[Arshpreet Bhullar]] and [[Rajveer Singh (basketball)|Rajveer Singh]], who scored many points from long distance.<ref name="Gopalakrishnan"/>

In the Semifinals, Punjab’s team secured a 79-67 victory over [[Uttarakhand]], whereas Tamil Nadu secured a narrow 65-63 win against [[Indian Railways]].<ref name="Gopalakrishnan"/>

== Championships ==
{| class="wikitable" width=20%
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!|Year
!|Champion
!|Runner-up
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| 2017 || [[Uttarakhand]] ||
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| 2018 || Tamilnadu ||
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| 2019 || [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]<ref>[https://in.nba.com/news/70th-senior-national-basketball-championship-ludhiana-punjab-india-groups-fixtures-and-schedule/1i1y449r7thlb1f7sjladbwllz 70th Senior National Basketball Championship, Ludhiana: Groups, Fixtures, and Schedule] Yash Matange ([[NBA.com]]), 21 December 2019. Accessed 2 February 2021.</ref> || [[Tamil Nadu]]<ref name="Gopalakrishnan"/>
|-
| 2020 || [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]<ref name="Naik"/> ||
|}

==Notable players==
- Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.<br>
- Played at least one official international match for his senior national team at any time.<br>
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* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Aravind Annadurai]]<ref name="Gopalakrishnan"/>
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Ravi Bhardwaj]]<ref name="Naik"/>
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Arshpreet Bhullar]]<ref name="Gopalakrishnan"/>
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Muin Bek Hafeez]]<ref name="Naik"/>
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Nikhil Kumar (basketball)|Nikhil Kumar]]<ref name="Naik"/>
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Jeevanantham Pandi]]<ref name="Gopalakrishnan"/>
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Amjyot Singh]]<ref name="Gopalakrishnan"/>
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Amritpal Singh (basketball)|Amritpal Singh]]<ref name="Gopalakrishnan"/>
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Prashant Singh Rawat]]<ref>[https://www.jagran.com/uttarakhand/nainital-now-son-will-play-senior-international-basketball-after-father-20043980.html पिता के बाद अब बेटा खेलेगा सीनियर इंटरनेशनल बास्केटबाल, फीबा एशिया कप के लिए चयन] Skand Shukla ([[Dainik Jagran]]), 19 February 2020. Accessed 25 February 2021.{{in lang|hi}}</ref>
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Princepal Singh]]<ref name="Naik"/>
}}

==See also==
*[[National Basketball Championship (women)]]
*[[INBL]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==

{{Basketball in India}}
{{Men's professional basketball leagues}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:National Basketball Championship}}
[[Category:Basketball competitions in India]]
[[Category:1950 establishments in India]]

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