NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum yesterday hailed India as a basketball destination and said he believed that a Yao Ming (China's NBA super star) in a decade. "India does not have a Yao Ming yet, but in the last three years we had Satnam Singh — the first India player to be drafted into the NBA [by Dallas Mavericks in 2015], Sim Bhullar -- the first Indian to play in a NBA game, and Amjyot Singh, who plays in the NBA's G league," said Tatum at an event in the city to announce that there would be NBA pre-season games between Sacramento Kings and Indiana Pacers on October 4 and 5, 2019 at NSCI, Worli.

Tatum continued: "Now there is a young kid named Princepal Singh, who trained at the NBA academy in India and is now training at the NBA global academy in Australia. He has a sharp chance of making it to the NBA's first division. It'll take time but the talent is there and in 10 years India will have its own Yao Ming."