Basketball is played in Nepal since early 50's. The foreigners who come to work in Nepal as volunteers or in foreign diplomatic missions were responsible for importing basketball in Nepal . The retired British Gurkha Soldiers who returned to Nepal also played their part in importing Basketball in Nepal.
Although registered 20 years ago, the first AGM of NeBA were held in April 3, 2005 and elected the first Central committee under the president ship of Mr. Kuldip Singh Rathor. Today NeBA is actively involved in promoting and developing Basketball in Nepal.
Basketball today is very famous in Nepal. Not only in the big cities like Kathmandu , Pokhara and others, it is very popular in the hilly districts as Dang, Myagdi, Syangja and Parbat. Most of the private schools in Nepal have quality Basketball Court that makes Basketball the very famous sport in the school level. There are about 20 school level Basketball tournaments organized by various schools and clubs. Apart from that NeBA also organizes the National Championship and supports various other National level tournaments.
NeBA is committed to the development of Basketball from the root level. We are working to promote Basketball from the school level in order the develop the players from the early age. And we are working hard to promote Basketball to every part of the country.
