Nigerian champions Kwara Falcons lost their second straight game at the 2023 Basketball Africa League by 78-74 to fellow debutants Stade Malien at the Dakar Arena on Tuesday. Kadri Baba Jibril's men showed a glimpse of improvement from their opening game loss against the Rwanda Energy Group, but they left it late and eventually fell to the Malians. Stade Malien edged the first quarter 18-15 and...
Following the Kwara Falcons' loss to Rwanda Energy Group in the Basketball Africa League on Sunday, power forward Anthony Wilson Jr. has reiterated the need for an immediate victory in their next game. The American, who only managed seven points for the Nigerian champions in the 64-48 defeat, called for teamwork and togetherness as they continue to navigate their way through the tournament. “One game doesn’t...
Basketball Africa League defending champions US Monastir of Tunisia began their title defence the way they left off from the 2022 edition with a resounding 78-68 win over Mali’s Stade Malien at the Dakar Arena on Sunday. The seven-time Tunisian League champions exerted their superiority early on with a 23-15 win in the first quarter to make their intentions known from the beginning. Though Malien crawled...
Nigeria’s representative, Kwara Falcons, did not get off to the best start at their maiden appearance in the 2023 Basketball Africa League. The reigning Nigeria Premier Basketball League champions were defeated 64-48 by last year’s BAL quarterfinalists, Rwanda Energy Group BBC (REG), at the Dakar Arena on Sunday. https://twitter.com/ferwabaRW/status/1634970142772981760?t=rpmfs3mAg-jIrdaRNxgp6Q&s=19 REG took an early seven point lead in the first quarter to end with a 16-9 score...
President of Basketball Africa League (BAL), Amadou Gallo Fall, has called on basketball teams in Africa to build value around the emerging talents in their ranks rather than for the sole purpose of trading them off to more developed leagues abroad with the aim of profit-making. Such has been common practice across different sports in Africa which has left the continent lacking local talent that it...
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