The Basketball Africa League will see every team field a very young face this season, as the NBA-affiliated league launches BAL Elevate, a project that places an NBA Academy Africa player on each of the 12 teams.
The African hopefuls who will participate in the 2nd edition of the BAL:
Sahara Conference
- AS Salé (Morocco): Nadir Bennis from Rabat, Morocco
- CFV (Mozambique): Reuben Abuchi Chinyelu, d’Enugu Agade, d’tat d’Anambra, Nigeria.
- Duke (Senegal): Babacar Sane, from Bignona, Senegal
- REG (Rwanda): Joy Ighovodja, d’Abeokuta, État d’Ogun, Nigeria.
- SLAC (Guinea): Serigne Saliou Mbaye from Thiès, Senegal
- US Monastir (Tunisia): Charles Loic Onana Awana, from Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Nile Conference
- Cape Town Tigers (South Africa): Matar Diop from Dakar, Senegal
- Cobra Sport (South Sudan): Khaman Madit Maluach from Rumbek, South Sudan
- Hope Fukash (Democratic Republic of Congo): Emmanuel Eberechukwu Okorafor, from Abia State, Nigeria.
- FAP (Cameroun): Ulrich Kamka Chomche de Bafang, Cameroun
- Petro from Luanda (Angola): Thierry Serge Darlan, from Bangui, Central African Republic
- Zamalek (Egypt): Khadim Rassoul Mboup, from Dakar, Senegal
