And then be great and create cultural and social blue prints for everyone else??
What Impact Will NBA Africa Have on FBA's Relationship to the Continent
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Africa is in its era of emergence and some of you fools will be triggered for the rest of your lives if you view other Black people as competition or a replacement.
Instead of celebrating people are spreading false narrative and xenophobia. Smells like fear to me. A logical person would not feel like this was a replacement of anyone. Massai has been set on building ball infastructure on the continent. Imagine having an issue with this.
Weirdo ass shyt.
Instead of celebrating people are spreading false narrative and xenophobia. Smells like fear to me. A logical person would not feel like this was a replacement of anyone. Massai has been set on building ball infastructure on the continent. Imagine having an issue with this.
Weirdo ass shyt.
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NBA's Basketball Africa League to debut May 16 in Rwanda
Mar 29, 2021
The NBA's new Basketball Africa League plans to make its long-awaited debut on May 16 in Kigali, Rwanda.
The new league will include 12 teams from across Africa playing its inaugural season in 26 games at Kigali Arena in Rwanda rather than the initial plan of playing in different countries in Africa. The BAL was initially expected to debut on March 13, 2020, beginning in Dakar, Senegal, but it was postponed 10 days before that because of the coronavirus pandemic. The BAL, which is a partnership between the NBA and the International Basketball Federation, includes club teams from Africa and is the NBA's first collaboration to operate a league outside of North America.
"We are thrilled that the inaugural Basketball Africa League season will take place at the world-class Kigali Arena," said BAL president Amadou Gallo Fall. "Through the BAL, we will provide a platform for elite players from across the continent to showcase their talent and inspire fans of all ages, use basketball as an economic growth engine across Africa, and shine a light on Africa's vibrant sporting culture."
The BAL says it has created "robust health and safety protocols" for the 12 teams and their personnel traveling to Rwanda due primarily to the COVID-19 virus. The BAL says its health and safety protocols are from the guidance of public health officials and medical experts from the World Health Organization and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The BAL adds that the competition will tip off with an 18-game group phase with the 12 teams divided into three groups of four. During the group phase, each team will face the three other teams in its group once. The top eight teams from the group phase will qualify for the playoffs, which will be single elimination in all three rounds. The first BAL Finals will be held on May 30.
The 12 teams include Algeria's GSP (Groupement Sportif des Pétroliers), Angola's Petro de Luanda (Clube Atlético Petroleos de Luanda), Cameroon's FAP (Forces Armées et Police Basketball), Egypt's Zamalek, Madagascar's GNBC (Gendarmerie Nationale Basketball Club), Mali's AS Police (Association Sportive de la Police Nationale), Morocco's AS Salé (Association Sportive de Salé), Mozambique's Ferroviàrio de Maputo, Nigeria's Rivers Hoopers BC, Rwanda's Patriots BC, Senegal's AS Douanes (Association Sportive des Douanes) and Tunisia's US Monastir (Union Sportive Monastirienne).
Champions from the national leagues in Angola, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia earned their participation in the inaugural season. The remaining six teams, from Algeria, Cameroon, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique and Rwanda, secured their participation through BAL qualifying tournaments conducted by FIBA's African regional office across the continent in late 2019.
"We are extremely happy to finally launch the highly anticipated first season of the BAL," said FIBA Africa and BAL board president Anibal Manave. "FIBA and the NBA have been working closely together to develop protocols to address the health and safety of all players, coaches and officials. The experience of hosting the FIBA AfroBasket 2021 Qualifiers in Rwanda late last year will contribute to a safe and successful inaugural BAL season."
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Exactly. This is just to grow NBA viewership. If anything it helps the euro teams have a feeder system cause they have more leagues and divisions. But it shouldn't have any negative or positive influence on the NBA except possible more viewers who will notice the NBA name brand and possibly follow the league.
Actually it can possibly give low level black american ballers another place to go and make a little money. When you think about the low level american ballers who play in the professional leagues in puerto rico and the Philippines for example. The money is much lower than in europe or russia and you won't get rich there. But they do pay players around the same amount as a professional in the states. Like 2k to 4k a week or something like that.
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the fact that a league on an entirely different continent has so many of you shook is hilarious
Yeah some of the lower level players will. But the higher rated players will still leave because I am sure they ain't offering money like those euro teams.
But as I mentioned expect the European teams with them multiple leagues and divisions to treat this like a farm system. Plus lower level black americans aka ADOS players who play in places like the Philippines and Puerto rico can look at this as an option as well.
Lets not forget that most likely these dudes ain't gonna make no more than 20k probably to play a season in this league. This is a means to expand the NBA brand and get more global viewership. Sort of like how the WNBA been used for the last 20 plus years to increase female NBA viewership.
Folks forget the NBA been trying to get a NBA Africa and an NBA India for like over a decade. They were trying to get an NBA Europe and NBA China. But the the European Leagues and Chinses Basketball League were having none of that. They weren't trying to have the NBA move in their territory.
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Cheaper to put gyms and equipment in Africa than invest in inner cities in America. Kids in developing nations are less likely to have agents and make demands and expect payment under the table. Once the league reaches a certain level of players from developing nations the union will be less likely to push for more demands as they are happy being out of their situation while American players have an expectation for more and more.