Saturday, March 1, 2025

Basketball

BAQE, BAKO, this is basketball as you’ve never seen it before. News, features, analysis, live events, BAL, national leagues, FIBA news, all from An African Angle. Here on SPNAfrica News and with video and Live coverage, curated by SILALEI SHANI, on SPNAfrica.com

Total commits N150m to grassroots basketball development

The Nigeria Basketball Federation has signed a 5-year deal with Total E&P Nigeria worth N150 million (USD 390,000) for the sponsorship of the Men’s Divisions One and Two national basketball leagues. The NBBF and Total partnership which will run between...

Victor Williams appointed new NBA Africa CEO

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has named Victor Williams CEO of NBA Africa, effective Aug. 17, 2020, it was announced by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. Williams, an accomplished investment banking executive with extensive experience growing businesses across the...

A taste of Victor Muzadi

From BAQE host, Silalei: "Victor Muzadi is one of those people who will talk up his home team constantly. No surprise when that's one of Africa's best-ever basketball teams - Angola. However, peel back the trash-talking, the blunt honesty and...

Hoops on the Nile – a journey to South Sudan

As much as it can interfere with regular life, one of the best things about a factual TV show is that you have to get out on the road. A sports show even more so, perhaps, as you...

Michael Jordan weighs in on George Floyd’s death

NBA legend Michael Jordan has released a statement expressing his grief and outrage over the death of George Floyd. With protesters taking to the streets across the United States again Sunday (May 31), Jordan released a statement on Floyd and...

Silalei interview with Coach Liz Mills

If you missed the action - and there was plenty of laughter and more serious talk around African basketball, coaching across the continent and the latest on the BAL - you can catch up right here.

BEATING CORONA – An SPNAfrica series

ONCE UPON A TIME, IN NAIROBI I first met Victor Muzadi in Nairobi, in 2015. He had come to our studios together with Liz Mills, a basketball coach then living in Zambia, for an interview on BAQE, the show behind...