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Edison, New Jersey, 1985. Bengali parents who arrived in the early 80s, father an electrical engineer at a US research lab, mother an accountant turned high-school maths teacher. Older sister now a paediatric cardiologist in Boston. Princeton undergraduate in economics, Columbia Journalism School in 2009. The sport desk of a global business-news wire from 2010 to 2018, covering the business of American leagues then increasingly the international side: NBA mainland China book in 2017, the Saudi PIF moves into golf and football starting in 2019, BCCI as the most powerful sports body in world cricket. A subscription sports publication 2018 to 2024, where he ran the cricket-and-Asian-sport vertical and was on the ground in New York and Texas for the 2024 T20 World Cup, including the night the United States beat Pakistan in Dallas. Moved to Hong Kong in early 2025 for the Wang Report. Married to a Mumbai-born corporate lawyer. Plays squash three times a week.
The NBA fined Clippers owner Steve Ballmer $30 million this week and voided a sponsorship deal tied to Kawhi Leonard, the league's finding being that money routed through a company backing the arena project functioned as a workaround on the salary cap. Thirty million dollars sounds like a number designed to hurt. For a…
Read full filing →The NBA spent the offseason investigating why Aspiration, a now-bankrupt "green banking" startup, agreed to pay Kawhi Leonard $28 million to do essentially nothing, and on Tuesday commissioner Adam Silver answered his own question with a gavel. The league stripped the Clippers of a future first-round pick and fined own…
Read full filing →Cooper Flagg won NBA Rookie of the Year in April, and by September his own former head coach is done being careful with the comparison. Jason Kidd, who ran the Mavericks bench through Flagg's debut season before Dallas moved on from him, says the 19-year-old is tracking toward LeBron James level greatness. Kidd is a Ha…
Read full filing →Bukayo Saka's second-half goal beat Aston Villa 1-0 and kept Arsenal unbeaten, the kind of result that used to get filed away as routine business before Mikel Arteta's actual business made the scoreline look like the undercard. Arsenal sold Gabriel Martinelli, a 24 year old who has started Champions League finals, to h…
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