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...concert is part of a festival of Indian art and culture organized by bozar with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, and it runs in Brussels through January. The festival also includes a rare retrospective of master filmmaker Satyajit Ray and ends with a performance from renowned tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain. For complete program listings, visit bozar.be...
...pairs of a $189 limited edition, India-only Garnett basketball shoe, stitched with the country's orange, white and green colors and its iconic symbol, a tiger. Betting in part on a basketball explosion, Reebok, which Adidas purchased last year, recently announced it would more than triple its Indian stores, to 1,100 locations...
...with the help of several marketing partners, is searching for that Indian star. In December the league will dispatch a group of top executives to the subcontinent for its first Indian basketball summit. They will finalize initiatives like coaching clinics, refurbished neighborhood courts and youth- development camps. The NBA is talking to Time Warner (the parent of TIME) about producing hoops-related programming on Pogo TV, the company's Indian children's channel, and to espn Star Sports, a joint venture of Disney and News Corp., about increasing the league's presence on the network's Indian sports channels...
...Basketball is slowly creeping into the culture. Several recent Bollywood blockbusters have featured basketball: in Koi ... Mil Gaya (I Have Found Someone), aliens visit the nerdy hero and give him Jordanesque abilities. Once aliens like your sport, you have arrived. Indian cell-phone carriers have featured kids shooting hoops in recent TV spots. "As a business opportunity, the potential is huge," says Anil Kumar, president of SportzIndia Management, a marketing and consulting firm. The key for the NBA, Kumar insists, is TV saturation. "Cricket on the small screen? It's impossible to see the ball. You have to do replays...
...Stern remains realistic about his Indian experiment. "With [India's] middle class and some focus on the world's games, basketball is starting to get a little interest and a little traction," he insists. "So we have to be respectful and realize it's going to be small steps up." Given the NBA's global track record, its Indian steps could end up looking like Garnett. Bigger, and quicker, than you think...