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NBA superstar Durant says Indian basketball needs a Yao to beat cricket

Kevin Durant admits it will take a lot more for basketball to overtake cricket in the country.

By: Eastern Eye Staff

NBA behemoth Kevin Durant set a world record in India on Friday (28) but admitted it will take a lot more for basketball to overtake cricket in the country. Durant said that India will have to be patient and find its own Yao Ming to become a world basketball force as it is in cricket. On a visit to India that will take him to the Taj Mahal on Saturday (29), the Golden State Warriors NBA champion staged a training session with 3,459 Indian children that the NBA said would go into the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest basket lesson ever held. The…

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