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bird’s African Basketball Wrap: Pascal Siakam traded, Clare Akamanzi to start as NBA Africa CEO

bird’s African Basketball Wrap: Pascal Siakam traded, Clare Akamanzi to start as NBA Africa CEO

AFRICA’S basketball calendar for the new year is starting to take shape, with the Basketball Africa League kicking off in March and the 2025 Afrobasket qualifiers scheduled for February 23-25. The host countries for the opening window of this edition of Afrobasket will be Tunisia and Egypt, with Tunisia hosting Groups B and E and the latter hosting the first games of Group D. The remaining groups will play their qualifying games in November. Teams heading to Tunisia include Group B’s Cape Verde, Nigeria, and Uganda, together with the winners of Africa Zone 1 qualifiers, while Group E is comprised…
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Meet Africa’s Mr Basketball

Meet Africa’s Mr Basketball

BOITUMELO RANTAO FOR the majority of basketball players in Africa, their only hope of creating a career out of basketball is to seek a change of scenery and travel overseas. For others, basketball can be used to better the current situation by seizing opportunities to better schools that might have not been available before.  Football was known as the clear-cut favourite as Senegal’s No.1 sport, but the growing presence of basketball could not be ignored. Though hard to find the facilities, and at a time when courts were not readily available.  One youngster had just received a basketball from his…
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