{"id":57551,"date":"2024-05-23T21:27:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/more-sport\/2024-basketball-africa-league-season-by-the-numbers\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T21:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:27:06","slug":"2024-basketball-africa-league-season-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/more-sport\/2024-basketball-africa-league-season-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Basketball Africa League Season: By the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"press-body-in\">\n                            <span><br \/>\n                                                            KIGALI, Rwanda, May 23, 2024\/APO Group\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                        <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Top Eight Teams to Compete at BAL Playoffs (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3u3TBM\" rel=\"noopener\">www.BAL.NBA.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>and Finals in Kigali, Rwanda from May 24 &#8211; June 1;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Bank of Kigali Joins BAL\u2019s Roster of Marketing Partners for Playoffs and Finals.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 Basketball Africa League (BAL) Playoffs will tip off on Friday, May 24 at BK Arena in Kigali, Rwanda featuring the top eight teams\u00a0(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3wP67QQ\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3wP67QQ<\/a>) from the league\u2019s Kalahari\u00a0(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3wCKu6N\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3wCKu6N<\/a>), Nile\u00a0(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/4awYBbE\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/4awYBbE<\/a>) and Sahara\u00a0(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3yxDXuA\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3yxDXuA<\/a>) conference group phases that were held in Pretoria, South Africa; Cairo, Egypt; and Dakar, Senegal, respectively: FUS Rabat Basketball (Morocco), Petro de Luanda (Angola), Cape Town Tigers (South Africa), Al Ahly (Egypt), Al Ahly Ly (Libya), Rivers Hoopers (Nigeria), AS Douanes (Senegal) and US Monastir (Tunisia).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The complete game schedule for the Playoffs and Finals, which is available at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/44WLfnM\" rel=\"noopener\">BAL.NBA.com<\/a>, features four seeding games followed by an eight-game, single-elimination playoffs, culminating with the 2024 BAL Finals on June 1 at 4:00 p.m. CAT.\u00a0 Tickets for the Playoffs and Finals are on sale now at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/49CJjBQ\" rel=\"noopener\">BAL.NBA.com<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/4dSMPLB\" rel=\"noopener\">Ticqet.rw<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with the Playoffs and Finals, the BAL and Bank of Kigali today announced a collaboration to drive fan attendance and elevate the in-arena experience throughout the week.\u00a0Bank of Kigali joins the BAL\u2019s roster of partners that also includes Foundational Partners Rwanda Development Board, NIKE, Jordan Brand and Wilson, as well as marketing partners Afreximbank, Castle Lite, Hennessy and RwandAir.<\/p>\n<p>Below are notable facts and figures about the 2024 BAL season:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1,600,000<\/strong> \u2013 BAL games have reached 1.6 million live viewers across the NBA and BAL\u2019s social and digital media channels this season [the NBA App\u00a0(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/43eJtgR\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/43eJtgR<\/a>), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/43WSeN2\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA.com<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3u3TBMw\" rel=\"noopener\">BAL.NBA.com<\/a> and the BAL\u2019s YouTube channel (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3twvshm\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3twvshm<\/a>)].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>238,000<\/strong> \u2013 BAL games have generated <strong>238,000<\/strong> total watch hours across the NBA and BAL\u2019s social and digital media channels this season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>125,000 <\/strong>\u2013 The Nile Conference game on May 26 between defending champion Al Ahly (Egypt) and first-time BAL participant Al Ahly Ly (Libya) was the most-watched game this season on the BAL\u2019s YouTube channel with <strong>125,000 <\/strong>unique viewers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>80,000<\/strong> \u2013 The BAL set a single-season attendance record as more than <strong>80,000<\/strong> fans attended games across the three conference group phases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>5,000 <\/strong>\u2013 This season, the BAL has engaged more than <strong>5,000<\/strong> youth from local communities through BAL4HER, BAL Advance, U-23 women\u2019s camps, Special Olympics programming, Jr. NBA clinics, Fan Zone, and in-arena gameday experiences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>544<\/strong> \u2013 Al Ahly Ly scored <strong>544<\/strong> points over six games during the Nile Conference group phase, the most points scored by any team during a group phase this season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>500 <\/strong>\u2013 More than <strong>500<\/strong> media members from 20 countries across Africa, Europe and the U.S. were credentialed to cover the three group phases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>375<\/strong> \u2013 The BAL engaged <strong>375<\/strong> coaches and 141 referees through clinics in Pretoria, Cairo and Dakar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>226<\/strong> \u2013 Rivers Hoopers (Nigeria) guard Kelvin Amayo and Bangui Sporting Club (Central African Republic) guard Rolly Fula Nganga each played a total of <strong>226<\/strong> minutes during the group phases, the most minutes played of any players this season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>214 <\/strong>\u2013 The 2024 BAL season is reaching fans in <strong>214<\/strong> countries and territories in 17 languages through free-to-air and paid TV broadcast partnerships with the African Union of Broadcasting, American Forces Network (AFN), Canal+, NBA TV, SuperSport, Tencent Video, TSN, TV5 Monde, Visionary TV and Voice of America (VOA), and livestreaming on the NBA App\u00a0(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/43eJtgR\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/43eJtgR<\/a>), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/43WSeN2\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA.com<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3u3TBMw\" rel=\"noopener\">BAL.NBA.com<\/a> and the BAL\u2019s YouTube channel (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3twvshm\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3twvshm<\/a>).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>154<\/strong> \u2013 The 12 BAL teams this season collectively featured <strong>154<\/strong> players from 25 countries across Africa, Europe, Oceania, and the U.S., including five players with NBA experience, 19 players with NBA G League experience, 48 former NCAA Division I players, 18 former Basketball Without Borders (BWB) campers, 12 NBA Academy Africa prospects, and 39 players who have represented their national teams at the FIBA Basketball World Cup and FIBA AfroBasket.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>135 <\/strong>\u2013 Al Ahly Ly center Jo Lual-Acuil Jr. scored 135 points over six games during the group phase, making him the BAL\u2019s leading scorer.\u00a0The South Sudanese center is averaging 23 points per game this season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>110 <\/strong>\u2013 On April 27, Al Ahly Ly scored <strong>110<\/strong> points in its win against the City Oilers (Uganda), which marks the most points scored in a BAL game this season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>51<\/strong> \u2013 US Monastir (Tunisia) guard Chris Crawford helped his team qualify for the Playoffs with a league-leading <strong>51 <\/strong>assists over six games.\u00a0The 2023 All-BAL First Team member and former NBA G League player is averaging 8.5 assists per game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>42 <\/strong>\u2013 On April 27, Al Ahly Ly center Jo-Lual Acuil Jr. set a new BAL single-game scoring record with <strong>42<\/strong> points when he led his team to a 110-78 win over the City Oilers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>22<\/strong> \u2013 Bangui Sporting Club guard Rolly Fula Nganga led the league in three-pointers <strong>(22) <\/strong>during the group phases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>17<\/strong> \u2013 City Oilers center Khaman Maluach led the league in blocked shots <strong>(17) <\/strong>during the group phases.\u00a0The South Sudanese NBA Academy Africa prospect and Duke University commit averaged 13.5 rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>12 <\/strong>\u2013 As part of the third edition of the BAL Elevate program\u00a0(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3WSZp7d\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3WSZp7d<\/a>), one NBA Academy Africa prospect joined each of the <strong>12<\/strong> BAL teams for the 2023 season.\u00a0NBA Academy Africa is an elite basketball training center in Saly, Senegal for the top high-school-age prospects from across Africa and the first-of-its-kind on the continent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>5<\/strong> <strong>\u2013<\/strong> <strong>Five <\/strong>new teams and three new countries were among the 12 club teams from 12 African countries that qualified for the 2024 BAL season\u00a0(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3KfHLTI\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apo-opa.co\/3KfHLTI<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>3<\/strong> <strong>\u2013 <\/strong>2022 BAL champion US Monastir is the first team in league history to overcome a 0-3 start in the group phase and qualify for the Playoffs after a <strong>3<\/strong>-3 finish.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2<\/strong> \u2013 The BAL had its first-ever <strong>double<\/strong>-overtime game when the Rivers Hoopers defeated Arm\u00e9e Patriotique Rwandaise Basketball (APR; Rwanda) 78-71 on May 11.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2<\/strong> \u2013 US Monastir and 2022 runner-up Petro de Luanda (Angola) are the only <strong>two<\/strong> teams that have participated in all four BAL seasons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1<\/strong> \u2013 The inaugural Kalahari Conference group phase in March marked the <strong>first<\/strong> time BAL games have been held in South Africa and the first time the league expanded to four different countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bal.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/2024-basketball-africa-league-season-by-the-numbers?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KIGALI, Rwanda, May 23, 2024\/APO Group\/ &#8212; Top Eight Teams to Compete at BAL Playoffs (www.BAL.NBA.com)\u00a0and Finals in Kigali, Rwanda from May 24 &#8211; June 1;\u00a0Bank of Kigali Joins BAL\u2019s Roster of Marketing Partners for Playoffs and Finals. The 2024 Basketball Africa League (BAL) Playoffs will tip off on Friday, May 24 at BK Arena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bal.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/210773ba62abd3f","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-more-sport"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bal.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/210773ba62abd3f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}