The NBA will launch a year-on-year African professional competitors, published by the NBA and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Saturday.
There will be a 12-team selected in the African Basketball League (BAL) that was selected after a later diploma competitions this year, with Angola, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal , South Africa and Tunisia are expected to be represented. There are no more than two teams from the same African country to suit the league.
"African Football Ball League is the next step in the continuous development of its basketball game in Africa," said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. "Together with our other programs on our mainland, we are committed to using basketball as an economic engine to create new opportunities in sport, media and technology throughout Africa."
"Africa has a huge economic engine," said Silver
The NBA and FIBA also provide financial support and some infrastructure to develop a basketball league in Africa, as well as training for players, coaches and certificates.
"It's a great joy that we see our partnership with the NBA to enter our borders as we work together for the first time to Increase the ability to develop basketball professional membership in Africa, "said FIBA general secretary Andreas Zagklis.
The new league was announced on the afternoons of the 68th NBA All-Star Games.
The US President Barack Obama, a big basketball fan, is also expected to have a place.
"With fun, if you try, you will receive a prize," said Obama through a video conference that was shown at the event to launch the new league.
The league is expected to play in January 2020.
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African Olympics to watch
Registrar: David Rudisha
The 27-year astronomer astronomer from China won a gold medal at the 800m at the London 2012 Olympics, and the race prefers at this year's games. He confirmed that he was still in a format when he won the 800m at the World Championships last year in Beijing, and holds a record all over the world by doing it; run by distance in just under one minute and 41 seconds.
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African Olympics to watch
Return to the star: Caster Semenya
The South African railroad is looking at protecting a world-wide world record for 800m women. But the Semenya pace is under review. She had to take a sex test in 2009 and needed to take a hormone to balance her naturally testosterone levels. But a co-athlete's lawsuit last year managed to discriminate against the punishing of athletes for genetic benefits.
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African Olympics to watch
The Leaflets: Niger
Niger has only won the Olympic Stadium once for boxing at the Munich Games back in 1972. This year, the West African country has put six athletes to Rio – two swimmers, two players and two armies. Judoku Ahmed Goumar and athlete Taekwondo Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga (pictured)
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African Olympics to watch
The guardian: Chad with Clos
The South African swimmer became an amazing star at the London 2012 olympics when he put out his hero, managing the piper Michael Phelps, win a gold medal in the butterfly's 200m. Le Clos's influence was largely surrounded by the revival of his father, who gave attention to the media. In the days up to this year's Games, Clos confirmed that his two parents had cancer breakdown.
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African Olympics to watch
The marathon man: Eliud Kipchoge
The runner-up of Kenach's marathon in London won this year as well as last year's Berlin marathon and the Hamburg marathon in 2013, This is the first time. He went on to run after the Olympic team of Kenya was made in 2012, and is now the best ones to win the long race in Rio this year.
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African Olympics to watch
The first Olympics: The Refugee Team
Ten athletes have been their first refugee team. There are two Syrian swimmers, two judokas from the Democratic Republic of Congo, an Ethiopian marathoner and five South Sudan mid-speed runners. competition under the Olympic flag. The Olympic Head of the Olympic Games, Thomas Bach, said the team would "be a symbol of hope for our refugees in the world" during the current crisis.
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African Olympics to watch
The oldest teams
Games of this year are six of the smallest producers coming from African countries. Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Mauritania, Somalia and Swaziland, all of which add two athletes each to Rio. Everything goes out on behalf of Reino-Flor Okori, who will go to it. competition in the 100m hurdles. She also maintains French citizenship and has been in & # 39; competition for the French in the subject.
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African Olympics to watch
Women's power: Senegalese basketball team
Senegal is the only African country who qualifies for an Olympic women's basketball this year. The team confirmed his certificate by winning the AfroBasket Women competition in Yaounde, Cameroon last year. The athletes compete with two other twelve teams in Rio. The last trip of Senegal basketball players to the Olympics in 2000, when the team took 12th place.
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African Olympics to watch
The early rocket: Wayde van Niekerk
South African sprinter is a clear cover for gold medal in Rio. It hosts the world's record for a 400m race for men, and b> # 39; He's his first athlete ever & # 39; runs 100m in less than ten seconds, 200, in less than 20 seconds, and 400m in less than 44 seconds. Even Usain Bolt, who is a major campaigner, has been praising van Niekerk's racing times.
Author: Loveday Wright
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