{"id":18098,"date":"2024-06-01T08:11:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T08:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/how-do-the-basketball-africa-league-and-nba-compare\/"},"modified":"2024-06-01T08:11:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T08:11:40","slug":"how-do-the-basketball-africa-league-and-nba-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/how-do-the-basketball-africa-league-and-nba-compare\/","title":{"rendered":"How do the Basketball Africa League and NBA compare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this month Denver Nuggets centre Nikola Jokic joined some of the NBA&#8217;s all-time greats by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c72pye44l77o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">winning the league&#8217;s MVP award<\/a> for the third time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Serb averaged 26.4 points, 12.4 rebounds and nine assists this season and completed 25 triple-doubles for the defending NBA Champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jokic, 29, became just the second player to finish with more than 2,000 points, 900 rebounds and 700 assists in a regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BAL will not announce its MVP until after the final in Kigali, but Jo Lual-Acuil is among several names in contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The South Sudanese-Australian centre has been crucial in Al Ahly Libya&#8217;s run to the final in their debut season, breaking the BAL&#8217;s single-game scoring record with 42 points in their Nile Conference win over City Oilers of Uganda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lual-Acuil averages 21.8 points and 9.9 rebounds but is well down on assists compared to Jokic, at 1.9 per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Petro shooting guard Carlos Morais, described as the &#8216;LeBron James of Africa&#8217;, could land the award if the Angolan club clinch the title, while Kelvin Amayo of Nigerian side Rivers Hoopers and Samkelo Cele of Cape Town Tigers also had impressive campaigns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/clddnw65lv0o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month Denver Nuggets centre Nikola Jokic joined some of the NBA&#8217;s all-time greats by winning the league&#8217;s MVP award for the third time. The Serb averaged 26.4 points, 12.4 rebounds and nine assists this season and completed 25 triple-doubles for the defending NBA Champions. Jokic, 29, became just the second player to finish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18100,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions\/18100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}