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***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Fri Aug 4, 2017 10:12 pm
by magnumt
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
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Fri Aug 4, 2017 10:18 pm
by 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?
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Fri Aug 4, 2017 10:23 pm
by magnumt
miamiheat319 wrote: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
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Fri Aug 4, 2017 10:24 pm
by 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.
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Fri Aug 4, 2017 10:30 pm
by miamiheat319
magnumt wrote:miamiheat319 wrote: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.
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Fri Aug 4, 2017 11:58 pm
by magnumt
miamiheat319 wrote:magnumt wrote:miamiheat319 wrote: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
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Sat Aug 5, 2017 12:23 am
by fatalogic
I know its an exhibition game but I'm pretty excited to see some basketball before Eurobasket.
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Sat Aug 5, 2017 12:26 am
by 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.
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Sat Aug 5, 2017 1:38 am
by clyde21
Man, I wish there was some concrete basketball development (and soccer) in Africa. So much untapped potential there.
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Sat Aug 5, 2017 3:09 am
by 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.
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Sat Aug 5, 2017 3:20 am
by Capn'O
I didn't see Frank's name. Is he playing?
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Sat Aug 5, 2017 3:38 am
by 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 -
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Sat Aug 5, 2017 4:28 am
by ballbrah
Wow finally we have some high quality basketball! It feels like Christmas.
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Sat Aug 5, 2017 12:10 pm
by j-ragg
NBAFan93 wrote: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.
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Sat Aug 5, 2017 12:29 pm
by rate_
miamiheat319 wrote: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)
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Sat Aug 5, 2017 2:15 pm
by 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.
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Sat Aug 5, 2017 2:52 pm
by Wolfgang630
It should be starting soon!
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Sat Aug 5, 2017 2:56 pm
by WajaBawl
Anybody got a quality stream lined up they could share?
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Sat Aug 5, 2017 3:01 pm
by Wolfgang630
WajaBawl wrote:Anybody got a quality stream lined up they could share?
It said its showing here.
https://www.facebook.com/kwesesports/?ref=bookmarks
Re: ***[NBA] TEAM WORLD vs TEAM AFRICA - SAT, Aug 5th, 2017 @ 11AM EST (on ESPN2)***
Posted: Sat Aug 5, 2017 3:02 pm
by WajaBawl