Twenty-5 Basketball Coaches from 15 African Nations Chosen for NBA 2K25 Summer season League; 5 Gamers Who Featured within the 2024 BAL Season (https://BAL.NBA.com/) to Compete in Las Vegas.
Twenty-five basketball coaches from 15 African international locations have been chosen to take part within the NBA 2K25 Summer season League which can happen in Las Vegas, Nevada from July 12 -22, 2024. The chosen coaches kind a part of the Africa Coaches Program, which builds on NBA Africa’s and Basketball Africa League’s (BAL) dedication to constructing capability and experience of coaches from throughout the continent, bettering the standard of the on-court product, and contributing to the continued progress of basketball on the continent. Eight of the coaches signify groups which have participated within the BAL.
Please see under for a few of the notable storylines, adopted by the complete roster of the African coaches, gamers, and referees who will participate within the Summer season League.
African Coaches Program
Constructing Continuity
Six groups that took half within the 2024 BAL season can have no less than one coach taking part – Al Ahly (Egypt), Bangui Sporting Membership (Central Africa Republic) Metropolis Oilers (Uganda), FUS de Rabat (Morocco), Rivers Hoopers (Nigeria), and US Monastir (Tunisia).
Sixteen of the 24 coaches will participate within the Africa Coaches Program for the primary time.
Rivers Hoopers head coach Ogoh Odaudu was named 2024 BAL Coach of the Yr and led his workforce to a third-place end this season. Rivers Hoopers’ head coach since 2009, Odaudu coached the workforce to 5 Nigerian Premier League titles. Since 2019, Odaudu has been a member of the teaching employees on the Nigerian nationwide workforce.
Two coaches – Francois Enyegue (Cameroon; San Antonio Spurs) and Emmanuel Mavomo (Democratic Republic of the Congo; Milwaukee Bucks) – return to the Summer season League for a 3rd consecutive 12 months. Final 12 months, they coached with the Orlando Magic and Utah Jazz, respectively. Enyegue is presently the pinnacle coach of Bangui Sporting Membership (Central Africa Republic) and served as head coach of Group Africa&Center East Women on the Jr. NBA World Championship in 2018. Mavomo is NBA G League’s Austin Spurs assistant coach and served as an assistant coach of Paris Basketball and BC Espoir Fukash in the course of the 2022 BAL season.
Empowering the Subsequent Technology
Three gamers with BAL expertise who’ve determined to take up a profession in teaching will likely be a part of this 12 months’s program. John Wilkins (Rivers Hoopers), Mohamed Gaddour (US Monastir), and Radouane Slimane (US Monastir) will respectively be a part of the Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Clippers, and Miami Warmth.
NBA Academy Africa Effectively-Represented
NBA Academy Africa gamers growth coaches Goitsemang Ditsheko (South Africa) and Karim Nesba (Morocco) will coach with the Houston Rockets and the Sacramento Kings respectively. Based mostly on the NBA Academy Africa in Saly, Senegal since 2022, Ditsheko is a part of the academy teaching employees who labored with NBA Academy Africa’s first NBA draftee, Cameroon’s Ulrich Chomche, chosen with the quantity 57 total by the Memphis Grizzlier and traded to the Toronto Raptors within the 2024 NBA Draft. Whereas enrolled at NBA Academy Africa, Chomche competed within the BAL as a part of the BAL Elevate program, representing Rwanda Vitality Group Basketball (REGBBC) in 2023 and Cameroon’s Forces Armées et Police (FAP) in 2022. Karim Nesba is a former AS Salé and Morocco Nationwide Group participant. He coached the Uganda Metropolis Oilers within the 2024 BAL season and the BAL Choose Group at Quai 54 this summer time. NBA Academy Africa Alumni Ibou Badji (Senegal) and Babacar Sané (Senegal) will likely be enjoying with the Milwaukee Bucks and Utah Jazz respectively. Badji who signed a two-way contract with Portland Path Blazers final season, performed 22 video games within the 2023-24 NBA season. Sané former BAL Elevate participant has performed with the G League Ignite since 2022.
Feminine Individuals
For the primary time, three feminine coaches will take part within the Africa Coaches Program – Sofia Bey (Morocco; Sacramento Kings), Aliaa Mahmoud Mohamed (Egypt; Washington Wizards), Ruth Bibeyi (Gabon; Los Angeles Lakers). They be a part of the Africa Coaches Program as a part of NBA Africa’s and the BAL’s efforts to offer extra alternatives for ladies in basketball.
Sofia Bey (Morocco, Sacramento Kings) is the pinnacle coach of Wydad Athletic in Morocco. Bey participated 2022 FIBA Africa Regional Youth Camp and was chosen for the FIBA Younger Coach program in 2015.
Ruth Bibeyi (Gabon; Los Angeles Lakers) was the pinnacle coach of Espoir Basket Membership (Gabon) which participated in Street to the BAL 2023. Aliaa Mahmoud (Egypt, Washington Wizards) was the assistant coach of FIBA U19 Ladies’s Basketball World Cup 2023.
Please see under for the entire record of African coaches taking part within the NBA 2K25 Summer season League and the NBA groups teaching employees they’ve joined.
First title
Final title
Nation of origin
NBA Group
Mohamed Lamine
Kriedeche
Algeria
New Orleans Pelicans
Stef
Pare
Burkina Faso
Orlando Magic
Francois
Enyengue
Cameroon
San Antonio Spurs
Victor
Samnick
Cameroon
Denver Nuggets
Pierrot
Ilunga
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Toronto Raptors
Emmanuel
Mavomo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Milwaukee Bucks
Ahmed
Elgarhi
Egypt
Minnesota Timberwolves
Alia
Mahmoud
Egypt
Washington Wizards
Ruth
Bibeyi
Gabon
Los Angeles Lakers
Ahmed
Salam
Morocco
Atlanta Hawks
John
Wilkins
Morocco
Phoenix Suns
Sofia
Bey
Morocco
Sacramento Kings
Karim
Nesba
Morocco
Sacramento Kings
Leonel
Manhique
Mozambique
Brooklyn Nets
Ogoh
Odaudu
Nigeria
Cleveland Cavaliers
Mohamed
Abdulrahman
Nigeria
Utah Jazz
Mugisha Igor
Keys
Rwanda
Boston Celtics
Prosper
Naci
Rwanda
Philadelphia 76ers
Matar
Mbodji
Senegal
Chicago Bulls
Goitsemang
Ditsheko
South Africa
Houston Rockets
Akech Wuoi Garang
Ajak
South Sudan
New York Knicks
Bechir
Hadidane
Tunisia
Memphis Grizzlies
Mhamed
Gaddour
Tunisia
Los Angeles Clippers
Radouane
Slimane
Tunisia
Miami Warmth
Andrew
Senyondwa
Uganda
Trailblazers Portland
BAL Season 4 Gamers*
5 gamers who performed within the 2024 BAL season are set to characteristic on this 12 months’s Summer season League: Jo Lual-Acuil Jr. (South Sudan; Sacramento Kings), Samkelo Cele (South Africa; New York Knicks), Obadiah Noel (USA; New York Knicks) Devine Eke (Nigeria, Milwaukee Bucks), and Makhtar Gueye (Senegal; Atlanta Hawks).
Lual-Acuil Jr. averaged 21.1 factors, 9.9 rebounds, and 1.6 blocks over the past BAL season, serving to Al Ahly Ly (Libya) to the 2024 BAL Finals. Lual-Acuil Jr. received the Hakeem Olajuwon Trophy because the 2024 BAL Most Invaluable Participant and the Dikembe Mutombo Trophy because the Defensive Participant of the Yr. Lual-Acuil Jr. additionally emerged because the 2024 BAL Scoring Champion and was named to the 2024 All-BAL First Group and the All-BAL Defensive Group.
Cele averaged 20.2 factors per sport and completed second in scoring within the league. He led South Africa’s Cape City Tigers to the semifinals and was named to each the 2024 All-BAL First Group and All-Defensive Group.
Obadiah averaged 19.4 factors and 4.2 rebounds per sport with Armée Patriotique Rwandaise basketball (APR; Rwanda) within the Sahara Convention final season.
Eke registered 16.6 factors and 11.3 rebounds per sport, main Nigeria’s Rivers Hoopers to 3rd place within the final BAL season.
Gueye represented Burundi’s Dynamo Basketball Membership within the inaugural Kalahari Convention final season.
Cele and Gueye have been a part of the BAL Choose workforce that featured on the 2024 Quai 54 Streetball Match, the world’s greatest streetball event in Paris, France, final month.
*Rosters are topic to vary.
Referees with BAL Expertise
5 referees who officiated within the 2024 BAL season can even be a part of this system, together with Annie Joyce Muchenu (Zimbabwe). Muchenu turned a FIBA worldwide referee in September 2008 and was appointed to officiate on the FIBA Ladies’s Champions Cup in Nairobi, Kenya the identical 12 months. She has since officiated at main competitions on the African continent together with junior and senior tournaments however has additionally officiated at two All Africa Video games (2011 and 2015), three FIBA U-17 World Cups, two FIBA U-19 World Cups, pre-Olympic Qualifiers and the 2018 Commonwealth Video games in Gold Coast, Australia, and the BAL for the reason that starting of the competitors.
Please see under the entire record of African referees:
NAME
COUNTRY
Oumar Sy
Mauritania
Yann Davidson
Madagascar
Annie Joyce Muchenu
Zimbabwe
Vitalis Gode
Kenya (Referee Supervisor)
Silver Houngbedji
Benin
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Basketball Africa League (BAL).