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The league, which is similar in format to the UEFA Champions League and EuroLeague, features many top African clubs, with one team per country. Qualifying rounds started on October 15 and will end on November 3. The qualifiers determine six of the teams that will move on to the 12-team regular season. Six other African clubs (Angola's Petro de Luanda, Egypt's Zamalek, Morocco's AS Sale, Tunisia's US Monastir, and whoever wins the Nigerian and Senegalese leagues) have automatically qualified for the regular season because they are hosting games. The regular season begins in March 2020.

Games can be seen on the FIBA YouTube channel. For more information, see the Wikipedia page.

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> Why it matters: The NBA's attempt at operating a league outside of North America is part of a long-term plan to make the NBA synonymous with competitive basketball around the world.

> Driving the news: The Basketball Africa League, a 12-team circuit operated by the NBA and FIBA, just unveiled its logo and held its first scouting combine ahead of a March 2020 launch.

> Background: The NBA has hosted Basketball Without Borders camps throughout Africa since 2003, opened an official league office in South Africa in 2010 and built a training academy in Senegal in 2017.How it works: The inaugural BAL season will feature 12 teams from across the continent, and all games will be played in seven host cities: Cairo, Egypt; Dakar, Senegal; Monastir, Tunisia; Rabat, Morocco; Lagos, Nigeria; Luanda, Angola; Kigali, Rwanda.

> "[Players] will no longer just dream of going abroad," Assane Badji, operations manager at the NBA Africa Academy, told NYT. "Instead they will stay, dream of playing in a big competition here, and value themselves."

> Even soccer, the world's most popular sport, doesn't have a singular brand that stands head and shoulders above the rest like the NBA does in basketball.

> The bottom line: Given Africa's history of producing basketball talent and its huge youth population, the BAL presents a unique opportunity for the NBA to grow.

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so ive been looking into African Basketball Leagues, and it seems that the top league is labeled FIBA Africa Basketball League, which is the top clubs from the continent playing against each other seperate from their domestic leagues. And its supposedly having its inaugural season this year and is an updated and improved version of the previous top competition in Africa which was called the Africa Cup

ive also read the NBA is working with FIBA to start a top basketball league which sounds a lot like the FIBA africa basketball League, and the NBAs version is called the FIBA Basketball Africa League. and from my research it doesnt look like this one is started yet, but is on its way.

so im confused, are these completely seperate leagues? a lot of the articles i see talking about the NBAs Africa League say it is the first league of its kind in Africa and will help grow the sport immensely there, but it just sounds essentially exactly like the FIBA Africa Basketball League, except maybe a different format i guess i dont really know, i couldnt find anything on that. but the concept of havinng the top African teams competing against each other in one league is the exact same. im just not sure why its being treated so differently i guess, are they actually same league and im just an idiot?

sorry for the long post, im just so confused about it