On Saturday the Basketball Africa League (BAL) announced the 12 club teams from 12 African countries that will compete in the league's inaugural season, which is set to tip off on Friday, March 13 in ...

They're refining skills of young prospects at the NBA Academy in Africa. The vocabulary, too. “There is a word that really we don't like, which is ‘raw,'" said Franck Traore, head of basketball ...

Not only are Rwandan children paying attention to the game of basketball, but some see it as a path to a brighter future. In 2021, the National Basketball Association and the International Basketball ...

Just days after his sixth studio album was released, J. Cole made his professional basketball debut with the Rwanda Patriots Basketball Club in the Basketball Africa League. In his first action on the ...

It was at the 2012 NBA All-Star game at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida where Luol Deng went outside the NBA All-Star dress code to wear a black t-shirt adorned with a stylized outline of the ...

“Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League” has found a home. Richard Brown’s Passenger and Fremantle announced on Monday that ESPN has acquired exclusive U.S. rights, with Bell Media taking ...

Adonis De La Rosa, a native of the Dominican Republic, was among approximately 50 players at a combine this week for the new Basketball Africa League that will launch in March. Adonis De La Rosa’s ...

The hardwood of BK Arena in Kigali, Rwanda, is sprayed a bright green and yellow. The sound of horns permeates the arena. Angolan and Tunisian flags drape over the first row of seats. This is the ...

The group phase will tip off on April 26 in Cairo. Official release DAKAR, SENEGAL AND CAIRO, EGYPT – The Basketball Africa League (BAL) today announced the rosters of the six teams that will compete ...

June 23 promises to be the buzziest day of the year for professional basketball, as fans huddle around their screens or crowd into Brooklyn’s Barclays Center for the NBA draft, when the 30 American ...

The fledgling Basketball Africa League tipped off its second season in Dakar, Senegal, on March 5, 2022, with a dozen men's club teams from as many African countries vying for the 2022 BAL ...