Assam’s first ever professional basketball competition “Basketball Challengers League” (BCL) will kick-start from September 23 at Nehru Stadium Basketball Court in Guwahati.
The league organized by Sportscraft Management in association with Assam Basketball Association, will witness a battle of six professional basketball teams for the first league title as well as prize money of Rs 2 lakh.
This 7-day competition will be played in league format and top two teams of the point table will play a final match to decide the first ever BCL winner.
“We hope the league will start a new era of professional basketball in the state and it will get even bigger from coming seasons as we have got tremendous response from the basketball fraternity in a short span of time,” Sportscraft Management managing partner Darick Ranjan Deka said in a statement.