{"id":29051,"date":"2025-04-25T19:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T19:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/bal-basketball-and-entertainment-boosting-africas-creative-economy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T19:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T19:02:03","slug":"bal-basketball-and-entertainment-boosting-africas-creative-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/bal-basketball-and-entertainment-boosting-africas-creative-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"BAL: Basketball and entertainment boosting Africa&#8217;s creative economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fifth edition of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) is attracting fans for both the action on court and the entertainment off it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The relationship between music and the sport is a long-standing tradition, with basketball stars often exploring cultural ventures and artists drawing inspiration from players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So it is no surprise that, just like the NBA, the BAL is leveraging the power of entertainment &#8211; not just to help grow the game on the continent, but also boost Africa&#8217;s creative economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Camera:<\/b> Jeff Sauke<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Producers:<\/b> Kelvin Kimathi and Priya Sippy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/videos\/c20z85zpndlo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth edition of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) is attracting fans for both the action on court and the entertainment off it. The relationship between music and the sport is a long-standing tradition, with basketball stars often exploring cultural ventures and artists drawing inspiration from players. So it is no surprise that, just like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29051"}],"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=29051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29053,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29051\/revisions\/29053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}