On April 7th, 2015 we all witnessed history as in the game between the Sacramento Kings
and the Minnesota Timberwolves Sim Bhullar made his NBA debut.
It was memorable because he was the first player of Indian descent to play at least
a second in the NBA.
Just a day later, Sim Bhullar made history once again, when he scored 2 points in an
NBA game.
Hello everyone.
Hope you are doing well.
I’m PRPLPRNCH and today I’ll talk about Sim Bhullar, the first ever Indian Descent
basketball player to log NBA action.
Gursimran Bhullar was born on December 2, 1992 in Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Although born in Canada Sim Bhullar is a player of Indian descent.
His parents migrated from the Indian state of Punjab and settled for a life in Canada.
Growing up he attended Father Henry Carr Catholic Secondary school and later moved to Saltsburg,
Pennsylvania where he attended The Kiski School.
He played basketball there for the Kiski basketball team and was a monster averaging 16 points,
14 rebounds and 8 blocks per game.
In November of 2010, Bhullar transferred to Huntington Prep School in West Virginia where
he improved on his conditioning losing 37 pounds in the process.
After highschool, Bhullar ended up commiting to play for the New Mexico State Aggies, but
because of eligibility he was able to start playing only from the 2012-2013 season.
During the season, Bhullar played 24.4 mpg averaging 10.1 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.4
blocks per game.
In his sophomore season Bhullar averaged 26.3 minutes, 10.4 points, 7.8 rebounds and 3.4
blocks per game helping New Mexico State to reach the NCAA tournament.
Bhullar declared for the 2014 NBA draft, but ended up being undrafted.
Bhullar joined the Sacramento Kings 2014 Summer league team and it made sense since
Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadive was also from India.
On August 14, 2014 Bhullar signed with the Kings becoming the first Indian player to
sign with an NBA team, but just before the start of the season he was waived.
In November of 2014 Bhullar was acquired by Sacramentos affiliate Reno Bighorns in the
NBA DLeague where he would become a star for the social media.
In his debut, Bhullar scored 4 points, grabbed 8 rebounds and blocked 6 shots and just a
few months later Bhullar was stellar when he recorded his first career triple double
by scoring 26 points, grabbing 17 rebounds and blocking 11 shots.
He was playing good for the Bighorns and the Kings noticed it.
On April 2, 2015 Bhullar signed a 10-day contract with the Sacramento Kings and on April 7th
Sim Bhullar would become the first player of Indian descent to play for an NBA team.
He played only final 16 seconds of the ballgame, but the history was made)
Next day, in a game against the Utah Jazz Bhullar would score his first NBA points in
1 minute and 22 seconds of action.
Bhullar also played 1 minute in Kings next game against the OKC Thunder registering 1
block and 1 assist, but after his 10-day contract expired the Kings didn’t retain him.
He rejoined the Kings for the 2015 Summer league where he played only one game.
Bhullar played his 2015-2016 season for the Raptors 905 in the NBA Dleague.
In 39 games Bhullar averaged 9.6 points, 6.9 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game.
His NBA dreams however were gone.
Sim Bhullar left North America to join Dacin Tigers of the Taiwanese Super Basketball League.
He ended up playing 39 games for the team averaging 19.7 points, 15.4 rebounds and 2.6
blocks in 34.2 minutes of action.
The stats seem impressive, but we have to take into account that it’s a league in
Taiwan and everyone else on the court was about 10 inches shorter than Bullhar.
After the season Bhullar signed with Guangxi Rhino who plays in the second-tier league
of China.
There in 35 games Sim Bhullar averaged 19.3 points, 12.2 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game.
Although Sim Bhullar is only 25 years old, his career in NBA might be done already.
His conditioning has been a problem and in the modern day NBA you cant afford having
a big man who doesn’t shoot 3-pointers and is just too slow.
Anyway, Sim Bhullar made the NBA history and who knows, maybe someday he will return to
the National Basketball Association.
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