Basketball Africa League. A total of 12 BAL teams will take part in the 2022 league season of the new BAL Elevate program which begins on Saturday 5 March.
Basketball Africa League 2022. Inaugural BAL Elevate program will feature 12 prospects from six African countries currently attending NBA Academy Africa
The Basketball Africa League (BAL) has announced the creation of the new “BAL Elevate” program, which will allow NBA Academy Africa prospects to join one of the 12 BAL teams during the league’s 2022 season which will start. Saturday, March 5.
The inaugural BAL Elevate program will feature 12 prospects from six African countries who are currently attending the NBA Academy Africa, an elite basketball training center in Saly, Senegal, which trains the best prospects from across Africa. . The program will provide the next generation of African hopefuls with the opportunity to compete in the new professional league, showcase their talent on the world stage and help their respective teams compete for the BAL Championship in 2022.
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“We believe that the BAL Elevate program will be extremely useful for the 12 teams of the BAL and for the young men of the NBA Academy Africa who are ready to develop at the professional level alongside the best players on the continent”, declares Amadou Gallo Fall, President of BAL. “There is a natural synergy between the BAL and the NBA Academy Africa, and this program will provide another avenue for elite African prospects to reach their potential as players and people. »
Basketball Africa League 2022
The selection of the BAL Elevate program was made yesterday by the presidents of the BAL teams. Players from the BAL Elevate program who hail from the same country as a BAL team have automatically been chosen to work with that team. When multiple players participating in the BAL Elevate program are from the same country as a BAL team, the team selected one of the players while the other player(s) joined the remaining group for the opportunity to be selected by another team. Players in the BAL Elevate program will not share in the monetary prize awarded to top BAL teams at the end of the season in an effort to maintain their amateur status.
Below are the BAL Elevate program players from each team:
The 12 teams of the BAL, including the defending champion, Zamalek (Egypt), have been divided into two conferences: the Sahara conference and the Nile conference. Each conference will play a 15-game group stage in which each team will play the other five teams in their conference once. The Sahara Conference group stage will take place at the Dakar Arena from March 5-15, while the Nile Conference group stage will take place at the Hassan Mostafa Indoor Sports Complex in Cairo from April 9-19. The top four teams from each conference will advance to the BAL playoffs, which will include a knockout tournament and finals at the Kigali Arena from May 21-28.
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Team BAL Elevate Program Player Country Age Size Position
Sahara Conference
AS Sale (Morocco) Nadir Bennis Morocco
CFV (Mozambique) Reuben Abuchi Chinyelu Nigeria
Duke (Senegal) Babacar Sane Senegal
REG (Rwanda) Joy Ighovodja Nigeria
SLAC (Guinea) Serigne Saliou Mbaye Senegal
US Monastir (Tunisia) Charles Loic Onana Awana Cameroon
Nile Conference
Cape Town Tigers (South Africa) Matar Diop Senegal
Cobra Sport (Soudan du Sud) Khaman Madit Maluach South Sudan
Espoir Fukash (RD Congo) Emmanuel Eberechukwu Okorafor Nigeria
FAP (Cameroon) Ulrich Kamka Chomche Cameroon
Petro de Luanda (Angola) Thierry Serge Darlan Central African Republic
Zamalek (Egypt) Khadim Rassoul Mboup Senegal
In the season opener, Senegal’s Dakar University Club (DUC) will face Guinea’s Seydou Legacy Athlétique Club (SLAC) at 12:30 p.m. (ET)/5:30 p.m. (GMT) in the first of 38 matches to be played across three cities over the next three months.
The NBA Academy is an annual elite basketball development program that provides top prospects outside the United States with a holistic approach to player development and a predictable path to maximize their potential.
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In 2018, NBA Academy Africa opened a new facility in Saly, Senegal, which includes two indoor basketball courts, a multipurpose activity center, weight room, conference rooms, dormitories and educational facilities.
Since the NBA Academy Africa opened in 2017, 19 participants have joined NCAA Division 1 schools in the United States.
Additional information on the BAL roster and details on the 2022 BAL season will be announced in the coming days.
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