The tourney, organized and funded by the eight-time National Basketball League champions, will attract all the top basketball sides from the East African region, as confirmed by the City Oilers General Manager Grace Kwizera.
Uganda's most successful basketball club, City Oilers, are set to host an invitational basketball tournament.
The tourney, organized and funded by the eight-time National Basketball League champions, will attract all the top basketball sides from the East African region, as confirmed by the City Oilers General Manager Grace Kwizera.
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"We are organizing the tournament as City Oilers," Kwizera told Pulse Sports before adding.
"The essence is to bring together all the best teams in our region to play together as we prepare for our next BAL campaign starting after the playoffs,"
"We intend to invite clubs from Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and South Sudan, those that can make it within an hour," Kwizera added.
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The dates and clubs will be confirmed in due course, with the tournament set to take place in October at the MTN Arena Lugogo.
The City Oilers' journey at the Basketball for Africa League has been nothing short of remarkable; in the inaugural edition, the Oilers went past the Road to BAL qualification round but were stopped at the Elite 16 after defeats to Patriots (Rwanda) and Maputo (Mozambique) in 2019.
In 2021, for the 2022 BAL season, the Oilers qualified past the road to the BAL stage in Tanzania but withdrew from the Elite round due to the Amicron Virus in South Africa.
Mandy Juruni's side finally broke the BAL jinx in 2023 but only managed one win against Mozambique's Ferroviario da Beira as they finished bottom of the Nile Conference.
The BAL is Africa's premier men's basketball league, an equivalent of the CAF Champions League in Football.
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