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NBA Announces Basketball Africa League to Start in 2020; Barack Obama Involved

FEBRUARY 16, 2019


NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on Saturday announced the launch of the Basketball Africa League, a 12-team competition consisting of teams across the continent.

The league, which will begin play in 2020, will feature squads from Angola, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia. Qualification tournaments will be held later this year to determine the inaugural participants.

Each country will be limited to two teams. The plan is to have it run in a format similar to soccer's UEFA Champions League, per Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated.

"As we've been talking about this concept over the last several months, there's been a tremendous reception from several of our NBA team owners," Silver said. "Several of our partners have also expressed an interest to work with us in Africa."

Basketball Africa League is the NBA's first pro league outside North America and will be co-run with FIBA. President Barack Obama will also be part of the league, Silver said, according to the Associated Press' Tim Reynolds. Obama's role has not been determined.

"There's been a fantastic reception," Silver said.

The NBA has held exhibition games in Africa in three of the previous four years. As of July, more than 80 current and former players are from Africa or have ties to the continent. The league has held 16 Basketball Without Borders events in Africa.


"We're excited to work closely with the NBA to develop and put in a place a professional league like none that we have ever seen in our region before," FIBA Africa executive director Alphonse Bile said. "Through the Basketball Africa League, we can provide the many great clubs and players with the best possible environment to compete for the highest stakes."

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343 points in all-star game last night? Were there and refs?? Imagine this will be the norm with O-bombs-a way league? Always tune in for March Madness but lost any interest if there was ever any at least a decade ago..... I wouldn't even play in a FREE NBA contest or for that matter if it was pay to entry and someone paid my entry! Anyone here about http://conservativefighters.com/new...-a-month-to-residents-in-new-welfare-program/
 

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Players have too much pride these days to go head to head seriously.

Afraid they are gonna get shown up by their counterpart.
 

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Africa League??

I thought the NBA was the Africa League!!
 

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I didn’t even recognize the sport being played. Not the same of 25 -30 years ago of an NBA game.
 
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This is so typical.

A few year back, a couple guys wanted to start a white only basketball league which obviously is a great idea because blacks and whites play the game completely different. That was shut down before the idea even got off the ground but thiis Africa league. They get the green light without anyone batting an eye

Why is it the homeboys are up in arms when there are only 2 black head coaches. What about the NBA. Don't we need to celebrate diversity in the NBA and include more whites? Was Dirk the only white all star?

So much I could say but it's typical anti white bs and who is the first to jump all over it. Obama who should be tortured and put in a camp for the rest of his life.
 

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