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NBA Pushes Deeper Overseas, Selling Franchises for Africa League
The final game of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) Sahara Conference between ASC Ville de Dakar and Union Sportive Monastirienne at the Dakar Arena in Diamniadio, Senegal, on May 4.
Photographer: Patrick Meinhardt/AFP/Getty ImagesThe National Basketball Association, in its latest move to aggressively grow overseas, will soon begin selling franchises for its league in Africa, Commissioner Adam Silver said.
The NBA, which created its Basketball Africa League in 2019 and played its first season two years later, aims to sell 12 new teams alongside an opportunity to build home arenas for those franchises, Silver said last week at the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Forum in New York.