***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***

[magnumt]

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Team World vs Team Africa tips off tomorrow morning.

The NBA has returned to Johannesburg, South Africa for the second annual NBA Africa game, featuring Team World vs Team Africa.

This year’s game will be held tomorrow, August 5th and will be played in the Ticketpro Dome in Johannesburg, South Africa at 11:00 am Eastern.

The game can be seen on ESPN2. A livestream will also be available via Kwesesports.com.

Rosters for both teams are as follows:

Team World will include team captains Dirk Nowitzki and Kemba Walker, as well as Kristaps Porzingis, DeMarcus Cousins, Kyle Lowry, CJ McCollum, Andre Drummond, Jaylen Brown, Wilson Chandler, Courtney Lee and Leandro Barbosa.

Team Africa captains have been announced as Thabo Sefolosha and Luol Deng. They will be joined by Bismack Biyombo, Victor Oladipo, Clint Capela, Gorgui Dieng, Serge Ibaka, Emmanuel Mudiay, Dennis Schroder, Luc Mbah a Moute, Salah Mejri and Joel Embiid, although, unfortunately Embiid will not play due to an injury.

Team World took the inaugural game back in 2015.

Team AFRICA & Team WORLD get in for the squad flick!

2017 #NBAAfricaGame: 11am/et SATURDAY on ESPN2. pic.twitter.com/So9aJtK7OY

— NBA (@NBA) August 4, 2017

--Mags

[miamiheat319]

Ok what lol

Can someone please explain to me the criteria for Team Africa?

Because you have:
Thabo Sefolosha - Born in Vevey, Switzerland
Victor Oladipo - Born and raised in Maryland
Clint Capela - Born in Switzerland and raised in France
Dennis Schroder- Born and raised in Germany

and I thought I saw something on Rotoworld about Kemba Walker possibly participating?? He's from NYC. These guys aren't African lol. Why not just get other players that are actually from Africa?

[magnumt]

Ok what lol

Can someone please explain to me the criteria for Team Africa?

Because you have:
Thabo Sefolosha - Born in Vevey, Switzerland
Victor Oladipo - Born and raised in Maryland
Clint Capela - Born in Switzerland and raised in France
Dennis Schroder- Born and raised in Germany

and I thought I saw something on Rotoworld about Kemba Walker possibly participating?? He's from NYC. These guys aren't African lol. Why not just get other players that are actually from Africa?

I think they went by ancestry. Like some of them left Africa because of turmoil (refugees) and were raised in other countries (Deng, Ntilikina, Giannis IIRC, etc).

--Mags

[MC3]

Unless african players play not interested in this. Just as I am not interested in supposed best era of basketball which is chucking 3's and draw and1.

[miamiheat319]

Ok what lol

Can someone please explain to me the criteria for Team Africa?

Because you have:
Thabo Sefolosha - Born in Vevey, Switzerland
Victor Oladipo - Born and raised in Maryland
Clint Capela - Born in Switzerland and raised in France
Dennis Schroder- Born and raised in Germany

and I thought I saw something on Rotoworld about Kemba Walker possibly participating?? He's from NYC. These guys aren't African lol. Why not just get other players that are actually from Africa?

I think they went by ancestry. Like some of them left Africa because of turmoil (refugees) and were raised in other countries (Deng, Ntilikina, Giannis IIRC, etc).

--Mags

Deng, yes. But Ntilikina and Giannis no. Ntilikina was born in Belgium and raised in France and Giannis was born in Athens. It's just weird to me to have it be called "Team Africa" but not have actual African players lol.

[magnumt]

Ok what lol

Can someone please explain to me the criteria for Team Africa?

Because you have:
Thabo Sefolosha - Born in Vevey, Switzerland
Victor Oladipo - Born and raised in Maryland
Clint Capela - Born in Switzerland and raised in France
Dennis Schroder- Born and raised in Germany

and I thought I saw something on Rotoworld about Kemba Walker possibly participating?? He's from NYC. These guys aren't African lol. Why not just get other players that are actually from Africa?

I think they went by ancestry. Like some of them left Africa because of turmoil (refugees) and were raised in other countries (Deng, Ntilikina, Giannis IIRC, etc).

--Mags

Deng, yes. But Ntilikina and Giannis no. Ntilikina was born in Belgium and raised in France and Giannis was born in Athens. It's just weird to me to have it be called "Team Africa" but not have actual African players lol.

Yea, but his family fled to Germany because of the aforementioned turmoils.

--Mags

[fatalogic]

I know its an exhibition game but I'm pretty excited to see some basketball before Eurobasket.

[BKlutch]

So is this going to be another All Star type of game? I'd love to see some of these players really pretend it's an actual game.

[clyde21]

Man, I wish there was some concrete basketball development (and soccer) in Africa. So much untapped potential there.

[Wolfgang630]

I'm ready to watch some basketball. Idk why people whining about where people are from. You can only get so many people to participate.

[Capn'O]

I didn't see Frank's name. Is he playing?

[NBAFan93]

Wow - lots of good players on both teams...didn't realize all those guys were involved - should be interesting. Olidipo seems the least African of the African team as he isn't even an international player, but oh well. Embiid not playing because of injury -

[ballbrah]

Wow finally we have some high quality basketball! It feels like Christmas.

[j-ragg]

Wow - lots of good players on both teams...didn't realize all those guys were involved - should be interesting. Olidipo seems the least African of the African team as he isn't even an international player, but oh well. Embiid not playing because of injury -

I thought Vic's parents were from Nigeria.

[rate_]

Ok what lol

Can someone please explain to me the criteria for Team Africa?

Because you have:
Thabo Sefolosha - Born in Vevey, Switzerland
Victor Oladipo - Born and raised in Maryland
Clint Capela - Born in Switzerland and raised in France
Dennis Schroder- Born and raised in Germany

and I thought I saw something on Rotoworld about Kemba Walker possibly participating?? He's from NYC. These guys aren't African lol. Why not just get other players that are actually from Africa?

These are where their parents/ancestry is from:

Dennis Schroder - Gambia
Clint Capela - Angola/Congo
Giannis Adetokunbo - Nigeria (Yoruba)
Victor Oladipo - Nigeria (Yoruba)
Frank Ntilikina - Rwanda
Thabo Sefolosha - South Africa
Kemba Walker - Antigua (But his parents were very afrocentric, and they named all of their kids afrocentric names)

[MotownMadness]

Drummond was talking about some of the things he's seen over there and it's very sad. Obviously we already know the state some of these people have to live in over there but seeing it first hand has to be crushing. He was talking about at one point seeing a small child eating a stick.

[Wolfgang630]

It should be starting soon!

[WajaBawl]

Anybody got a quality stream lined up they could share?

[Wolfgang630]

Anybody got a quality stream lined up they could share?

It said its showing here.


https://www.facebook.com/kwesesports/?ref=bookmarks

[WajaBawl]

Anybody got a quality stream lined up they could share?

It said its showing here.


https://www.facebook.com/kwesesports/?ref=bookmarks

Thanks mate!