NBA Africa Game with Gorgui Dieng

NBA Africa Game

Johannesburg, SA

Team Africa vs. Team World

10:00 am CDT

ESPN2

That’s right everyone, a game thread in August.

As the culmination of this year’s Basketball Without Borders camp, a group of NBA players will face off in Johannesburg today.

The Wolves own Gorgui Dieng will feature for Team Africa, which includes players who were either born in Africa or have a parent who is from Africa. Dieng, who of course is from Senegal, also participated in the 2015 edition of this game, and is a regular in the NBA’s marketing and charitable work on his native continent.

Team World, obviously, includes NBA players from everywhere else. It’s actually an interesting group of players on both rosters:

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