Photography for thegrindpr at NBA Africa in November 2014 by Jeremy Glyn

The NBA announced today (28/05) that NBA Vice President and Managing Director for Africa, Amadou Gallo Fall, is the new president of the Basketball Africa League.

Per the league’s press release:

“The National Basketball Association (NBA) today named NBA Vice President and Managing Director for Africa, Amadou Gallo Fall as President of the Basketball Africa League (BAL), a new professional league featuring 12 club teams from across Africa scheduled to begin play next year.

Fall will assume his role as BAL President immediately while assisting in the transition and search for a new Managing Director of the NBA in Africa. 

The announcement about the NBA and FIBA’s launch of the BAL, which would mark the NBA’s first collaboration to operate a league outside of North America, was made at the NBA All-Star 2019 Africa Luncheon in Charlotte on Saturday, Feb. 16. 

Fall, a Senegalese native who joined the NBA in January 2010, helped open the league’s office in Johannesburg, South Africa in May 2010, and has directed the NBA’s grassroots basketball development initiatives and partnerships with marketing, media and consumer product companies in Africa.”