{"id":229530,"date":"2026-04-05T01:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nairobi-city-thunder-pray-for-a-good-friday-ahead-of-al-ahly-ly-crunch-in-bal-kalahari-conference\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:40:34","slug":"kenya-nairobi-city-thunder-pray-for-a-good-friday-ahead-of-al-ahly-ly-crunch-in-bal-kalahari-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nairobi-city-thunder-pray-for-a-good-friday-ahead-of-al-ahly-ly-crunch-in-bal-kalahari-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Nairobi City Thunder Pray for a Good Friday Ahead of Al Ahly Ly Crunch in Bal Kalahari Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Pretoria \u2014 <em>With only two games left, Nairobi City Thunder head coach Brad Ibs has exuded confidence that his charges will finish off the Basketball Africa League (BAL) Kalahari Conference on a high as they prepare to face Libyan champions Al Ahly Ly today, Friday evening at the SunBet Arena.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Kenyan Champions face a must-win game in their remaining two ties for them to increase their chances of making history by qualifying for the playoffs for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Entering the game with one win&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604030490.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria \u2014 With only two games left, Nairobi City Thunder head coach Brad Ibs has exuded confidence that his charges will finish off the Basketball Africa League (BAL) Kalahari Conference on a high as they prepare to face Libyan champions Al Ahly Ly today, Friday evening at the SunBet Arena. The Kenyan Champions face a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":229531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7019,11757,38465,6603,5739,11657,9142,6677,7484,4688,430,259,257,9571,254,17280],"class_list":["post-229530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-ahly","tag-bal","tag-city","tag-conference","tag-crunch","tag-friday","tag-good","tag-kalahari","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-pray","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thunder"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}