Nepal, Feb. 14 -- Nikesh Rai has been playing basketball for over a decade. And he confesses that there's nothing about it that he doesn't love. He loves every aspect of it-the training, the actual game and everything in between. Rai was even a part of the under 19 team that played in the regional tournaments.

But he wasn't satisfied with how things were looking for basketball in Nepal. He felt that good players could rarely make much progress due to the severe lack of proper basketball coaching. And Rai, at the young age of 23, decided to do something about it. So, in May 2019, he founded ISA Nepal, a basketball academy that hopes to churn out international-level players who can represent Nepal in tournaments that the world has its eyes...