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Unbeaten: Al Ahli Tripoli from Libya, pictured versus Kriol Stars, became the second Libyan team to make it to the BAL final. They face Angola’s Petro de Luanda on Saturday. Photo: Julien Bacot: BAL/Getty Images
AL ITTIHAD ALEXANDRIA

BAL taking flight in fifth season

It’s cold outside, but in the arena the Basketball Africa League playoffs are heating up

  • Refiloe Seiboko
4 min read
Somusa Mthembu of the Cape Town Tigers in action against Morocco’s FUS Rabat Basketball. The Tigers took on Rabat twice in the Kalahari Conference, losing in both games. Photo: Barry Aldworth/xPect Life & Kevin Couliau/NBAE/Getty Images
BASKETBALL

Cape Town Tigers need to get their claws out

The basketball team from Cape Town made the playoffs but have their work cut out for them

  • Refiloe Seiboko
4 min read
A standard NBA League Pass will cost South Africans R840 ($46) and Premium R1 130 ($62) for the entire season/yearly. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
NBA APP

Basketball nirvana comes at a cost

Is the 2023 NBA experience the future of sports broadcast?

  • Refiloe Seiboko
3 min read
Developing the sport in South Africa in the junior category for over a decade, the Royal Bafokeng nation is a growing talent pool (Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images),
OPINION

Shooting hoops: South African basketball’s royal rumbling

Developing the sport in South Africa in the junior category for over a decade, the Royal Bafokeng nation is a growing talent pool

  • Refiloe Seiboko
3 min read
Thuso Mbedu in ‘The Woman King’.
AFRICANS OF THE YEAR

Amazing Africans of the year show world how to achieve true greatness

Here are some of the people who made it in worlds as diverse as entertainment, sport and politics — and made a difference on the continent

  • Wilfred Okiche
  • Jacqueline Nyathi
  • Refiloe Seiboko
  • Sipho Kings
  • Luke Feltham
  • Lydia Namubiru, The Continent
  • Kiri Rupiah
  • Simon Allison
  • Nanjala Nyabola
16 min read
The qualifying tournament for the Basketball Africa League (BAL), called the Road to BAL, wrapped up in Johannesburg last weekend, teeing up the third edition of the continental men’s league which will take place in 2023.
BASKETBALL

Third edition of the Basketball Africa League is taking shape

After hard-fought qualifiers, featuring teams from all over the continent, the 2023 teams have been confirmed

  • Refiloe Seiboko
1 min read
AFROBEATS
Audio

The Continent’s Africans of the Year: Tems and Wizkid

Dancing to their own beat: the Afrobeats sound is conquering the world, with Tems and WizKid at the vanguard

  • Refiloe Seiboko
  • Aanu Adeoye
  • The Continent
3 min read
Devin Booker #1 of the Phoenix Suns drives to the basket against Giannis Antetokounmpo #34 of the Milwaukee Bucks during the first half in Game Two of the NBA Finals at Phoenix Suns Arena on July 08, 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO

NBA finals game four predictions

The NBA Finals African Blogtable brings together some of the top basketball minds from across the African continent sharing their thoughts on the Bucks-Suns finals series

  • Refiloe Seiboko
3 min read
Match-up: Giannis Antetokounmpo #34 of Team Africa defends against Chris Paul #3 of Team World during the NBA Africa Game 2015 as part of Basketball Without Borders on August 1, 2015 at Ellis Park Arena in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo: Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images)
BROOK LOPEZ

Which team will be crowned the 2021 NBA Champion?

The NBA Finals African Blogtable brings together some of the top basketball minds from across the African continent to share their thoughts on the Bucks-Suns Finals series

  • Refiloe Seiboko
6 min read
Mosi-oa-Tunya or as it is currently known, Victoria Falls. (Nana Thiam/Unesco)
COVID 19

Victoria Falls rises again

One of Africa’s top tourist attractions has a strategy to encourage travellers to return: mass vaccination.

  • Refiloe Seiboko
3 min read
The teams that will play in the semifinals of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) inaugural season have been decided and both games will be played on Saturday 29 May. (BAL)
AFRICA

BAL gears up to crown champions as semifinals begin

The semifinals tip off on Saturday, with a champion to be crowned on Sunday

  • Refiloe Seiboko
3 min read
ADAM SILVER

NBA and Fiba launch Basketball Africa League

Teams from 12 countries will play in the league in Kigali, Rwanda, from 16 to 30 May — but South Africa didn’t make the grade

  • Refiloe Seiboko
4 min read
ANTHONY DAVIS

African Blogtable: Top picks for this season’s NBA MVP race

This month the African Blogtable asks some of the top basketball minds from across the continent to name their MVP for the 2020-21 NBA season

  • Refiloe Seiboko
4 min read
ANTHONY DAVIS

African Blogtable: NBA All Star picks

Every month the African Blogtable brings together some of the top basketball minds from across the continent to answer the most pressing questions related to the 2020-21 NBA season

  • Refiloe Seiboko
6 min read
BASKETBALL

Early NBA season check-in – African Blogtable

Joel Embiid gets the nod, and though Curry has performed well lately, there are doubts that the Warriors will prevail

  • Refiloe Seiboko
8 min read