ESPN has everything you need to know about the NBA-affiliated Basketball Africa League (BAL) for 2025, from news to scores to interviews from players across the league.

The Basketball Africa League (BAL), a partnership between the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA), is a new professional league featuring 12 club ...

Rwanda is closely associated with the NBA's Basketball Africa League. In 2021, Rwanda hosted the entire inaugural season and the first four BAL Finals. NBA teams up with Dikembe Mutombo and ...

Dr. Groesbeck Parham remembers walking the streets of Atlanta with the late Dikembe Mutombo. "I was there visiting, and he had to get his passport renewed, so we parked the car and we were walking ...

Each conference will play a 12-game group phase during which each team will face the other three teams in its conference twice. During group phase play, the home team in each country will play on ...

Pelicans to play preseason games in Melbourne against NBL’s Melbourne United and South East Melbourne Phoenix on Oct. 3 and 5 ...

Kelvin Amayo has re-signed for the reigning Nigerian champions, Rivers Hoopers for season five of the Basketball Africa League. Amayo was instrumental in the team’s third place finish at last ...

The NBA, whose recent Africa expansion is centered in Rwanda, is the latest to receive a letter from Congo officials; soccer teams Arsenal, Bayern Munich and PSG and racing's F1 got similarly worded ...

Junior Bridgeman, a former NBA sixth man who became a billionaire philanthropist and Bucks minority owner, has died at the ...

Junior Bridgeman — former NBA player and accomplished businessman — died in March 2025 after reportedly suffering from a ...

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The NBA launched the Basketball Africa League, its first league outside North America, five years ago in Rwanda's capital of Kigali. The NBA has said the U.S. government encouraged it to do ...