PRETORIA -- NBA commissioner Adam Silver said on Saturday that should a regular season game be played in Africa, then Nigeria would be the leading contender to host the contest, thanks to the country's links with the Toronto Raptors.
Silver, in South Africa for the third NBA Africa Game, to be played in Pretoria on Saturday, prefaced the Nigeria comments by tempering expectations of such a game in the near future.
African fans are appreciative of the exhibition fixture that is the NBA Africa Game, the perennial question is whether the continent will ever stage a regular season, or even preseason, match-up.