- Monday, February 24, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
INDIAN cager Princepal Singh on Tuesday (17) created history when he became the first Indian to be a part of an NBA (National Basketball Association) title-winning team. The 20-year-old is a member of the Sacramento Kings who won the 2021 NBA Summer League title.
Singh, who stands tall at six foot nine inches, played the last 4:08 minutes of the game and put his name alongside Satnam Singh Bhamara, who is the first Indian and Sikh player to be drafted into the NBA when the Dallas Mavericks chose him with the 52nd overall pick of the 2015 NBA draft.
In Tuesday’s game, Singh finished with two points by scoring the Kings’ final bucket which took them to 100 besides pulling down one rebound. The Kings dominated the game against the Boston Celtics, winning the title with a 100-67 win. The victory also made the Kings the only franchise to win more than one Summer League crown, having previously won it in 2014, according to the NBA.
Singh has now raised the bar for future NBA Academy India graduates with his feat. Earlier this year, he became the first-ever NBA Academy Global alumni to sign the G League (NBA’s official minor league basketball organization) contract and also the first-ever NBA Academy India alumni to sign a professional contract when he decided to ink a deal with the Ignite.
