Pune Peshwas was an Indian professional
basketball
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team located in
Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, ( the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million As of 2021, Pune Metropolitan Region is the largest i ...
, India. The team last competed in India's
UBA Pro Basketball League
The United Basketball Alliance (UBA) was the first men’s professional basketball league in India, comprising eight teams. The UBA was headquartered in Pune and had a city team, Pune Peshwas. The first UBA match was played on 17 July 2015 at ...
.
Players
Notable players
:To appear in this section a player must have either:
- Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player
- Played at least one official international match for his senior national team
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Amritpal Singh
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Arshpreet Bhullar
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Akash Lokhande
Akasha or Akash ( Sanskrit ' ) means space or sky or æther in traditional Indian cosmology, depending on the religion. The term has also been adopted in Western occultism and spiritualism in the late 19th century. In many modern Indo-Aryan ...
Miscellaneous
Notable fans of the team included
Himesh Reshammiya
Himesh Reshammiya (born 23 July 1973) is an Indian playback singer, music director, songwriter, film & music producer and actor in Hindi cinema. He started his career as music director in the film '' Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya'' in 1998 and made ...
who performed at a halftime show in 2016 and actor
Neil Nitin Mukesh
Neil Nitin Mukesh Chand Mathur (born 15 January 1982) is an Indian actor, producer and writer who mainly works in Bollywood films . Born to singer Nitin Mukesh and grandson of Mukesh, he debuted as a child artist in '' Vijay'' (1988) and ''Jais ...
.
UBA Pro Basketball League: Pune Peshwas, Hyderabad Sky register wins
''Indian Sports News'', 29 February 2016. Accessed 1 May 2017. and Shreyas Shintre who played kathak in the 4th season.
References
External links
Presentation at Asia-basket.comFacebook
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Basketball teams in India
Basketball in Pune
Basketball in Maharashtra
Basketball teams established in 2015