‘Now is the time!’ - snippets of my half hour conversation with @theBAL President Amadou Gallo Fall on franchising and deepening of Africa’s basketball league. 6 seasons in - what a journey! 🏀
$250M economic contribution….. 37,000 jobs created …. #BAL in numbers, within few years since it started.
#Kigali#Rwanda … the power of what happens if politics, governments, believe in disruptors, and more importantly are willing to see things, do things differently.
One more reason you got to love #Rwanda and its leadership!
#Africa can, would, will rise more and better if it empowers better its people, believes in its dreamers, and bet on its hustlers all around.
La incoherencia radica en que si estos chicos de 22-23 años por normativa vigente les *puede llegar a corresponder* 2 años de ��eligibility” (como mucho) es prácticamente imposible que se gradúen en una universidad americana, ya que no hay tiempo material. Por lo tanto, o bien la NCAA “se transforma” a una liga profesional o similar, o el sistema universitario (apartado educativo) está roto y carece de sentido alguno. Food for thought
𝗛𝗘’𝗦 𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗧. 🏆
Owen McCormack has been named the winner of the 2025/26 SLB @MoltenSports Most Improved Player award.
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1 year ago, FBR wrapped up his @USPORTSca career on a high note. But, question marks about the pro transition were raised. What the stats couldn’t capture was his most valuable asset: an elite mindset, rare maturity & an obsessive drive to level up. “British Luka” seems not to be just a nickname but a scouting report.
Game day in Taiwan. If the Keelung Black Kites & Wendell Lewis close out the series tonight, Wendell becomes the first American ever to win both the P-League and SBL championships in Taiwanese basketball history.
The NIL era is flipping the NBA Draft on its head.
Only 71 players entered the 2026 NBA Draft, per the NBA. Down from 106 last year and a peak of 363 in 2021.
That's the lowest early-entrant total since 2003.
College basketball stars are staying in school, overwhelmingly.
The full picture of how NIL reshaped the NBA Draft.
Early-entry numbers climbed from 2016-2021, peaking at 363 when COVID forced seniors to declare to keep draft eligibility.
Alston hit in June 2021, kickstarting the NIL era. Five years later: 71.