Nairobi City Thunder is among the 12 teams expected to face off at this year’s basketball Africa League (BAL) set for April in Rabat, Morocco.
Attracting 12 teams, BAL’s opening leg of the league’s milestone fifth season set for Kalahari Conference group phase from April 5 –13 at Prince Moulay Abdellah Sports Complex.
Thunder from Kenya will be up against teams from Cape Verde (Kriol Star Basketball), defending champion Petro de Luanda (Angola) and 2022 champion US Monastir (Tunisia).
Petro de Luanda and US Monastir are the only teams to have qualified for all five BAL seasons.
Each conference will play a 12-game group phase during which each team will face the other three teams in its conference twice.
In the season opener, Stade Malien (Mali) will face Rivers Hoopers (Nigeria) at 4:00 p.m. GMT+1.
In the second game, home team Fath Union Sport (FUS; Morocco) will take on Al Ittihad (Egypt) at 7:00 p.m. GMT+1.
Eight teams from across the three conferences will travel to Pretoria for four seeding games followed by an eight-game, single-elimination playoffs and finals from Friday, June 6 – Saturday, June 14