Arvinder Singh Kahlon
Indian basketball player
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Arvinder Singh Kahlon[1] (born 2 December 2002) is an Indian basketball player from Punjab.[2][3] He plays for the India men's national basketball team as a power forward. He plays for Railways in the domestic tournaments.[4]
Early life
He is born in Barnala, Punjab on 12 March 2002.[4][5] His father is an assistant sub-inspector in Punjab Police. He started with athletics as a shot putter and at 13 shifted to basketball after he was spotted by Rajinder Singh of Ludhiana Basketball Academy, who persuaded his father to send his ward to basketball. Within a year Singh joined the NBA academy Greater Noida.[4]
Career
In 2024, he was part of the Indian team that defeated Kazakhstan in the FIBA Asia Cup. In March 2025, he played 4 matches in the FIBA Asia Cup qualifiers at Manama, and in the crucial match where India defeated higher ranked Bahrain.[6][7] He went on to play the FIBA Asia Cup in August 2025. In 2025, he played for the Yamaguchi Patsfive in the Japanese B3 League.[4][8]
He participated in the 2019 Basketball Without Borders Asia Camp in Tokyo.[5]
He was part of the Indian Railways team that won the Senior Nationals at Ludhiana in 2025.[1]