{"id":188173,"date":"2025-10-03T20:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/188173\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T20:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:16:10","slug":"how-nbas-africa-league-shakeup-could-redefine-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/188173\/","title":{"rendered":"How NBA\u2019s Africa League shakeup could redefine basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The NBA is making its boldest play yet in Africa that could reshape basketball forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">This week on <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/videos\/series\/sports-report\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Yahoo Finance Sports Report;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo Finance Sports Report<\/a>, host Joe Pompliano dives into the NBA\u2019s bold plan to reshape its Basketball Africa League. He explains how selling all 12 teams to franchise owners could spark league growth, new markets, and arenas &#8211; marking a massive bet on basketball\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Pompliano also covers other major sports business headlines, from soaring MLB postseason ticket prices to the New England Patriots\u2019 latest valuation and Saudi Arabia\u2019s $55 billion takeover of Electronic Arts (<a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/EA\" data-ylk=\"slk:EA;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EA<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">To hear more, check out this week\u2019s episode of Yahoo Finance Sports report here.<\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/videos\/series\/sports-report\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Yahoo Finance Sports Report with Joe Pompliano;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo Finance Sports Report with Joe Pompliano<\/a>, a vodcast brought to you by Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports, looks beyond the latest sports business headlines, analyzes all the need-to-know news &#8211; the teams, trades, and billion dollar deals &#8211; so you and your portfolio will win BIG.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Finance Sports Report is developed and produced by Lauren Pokedoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA is making its boldest play yet in Africa that could reshape basketball forever. This week on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[6074,64,63,726,119626,115060,119627,85,16881],"class_list":["post-188173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-africa","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-africa-league","tag-electronic-arts","tag-joe-pompliano","tag-sports","tag-the-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}