Nationality Indian Listed weight 249 lb (113 kg) Role Basketball Player Weight 113 kg Position Center, Power forward | Listed height 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) Name Sozhasingarayer Robinson Height 2.03 m Pro career 2005 | |
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Born June 23, 1980 (age 43)
Pondicherry, India ( 1980-06-23 ) | ||
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Sozhasingarayer Robinson , also widely known as simply S. Robinson (born June 23, 1980 in Pondicherry, India) is a professional Indian basketball player. He currently plays for the Tamil Nadu Basketball Team which competes in the India National Cup.
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Career overview
Sozhasingarayer Robinson, born in Pondicherry, grew up in Gujarat, India. A standout athlete in India, Robinson started to gain international media attention when he led India with 36 points to a surprise victory at the 2004 FIBA Asia Stankovic Cup against South Korea, a regular competitor for the title at international tournaments in Asia. To unknown reasons, he did not take the offer to play professionally in New Zealand in 2006, following extraordinary performances against the Tall Blacks. In that same year he was banned from representing his state's basketball team for missing its training camp. Robinson is known as being extremely outspoken as he severely criticized the lack of support for India's national basketball team from which he retired in 2006 only to try a comeback a little later. Robinson is one of the most well known figures in Indian basketball. Altogether, he played professional inbasketball for the following teams: