Basketball

The Federation of International Basketball Association (FIBA) have granted the South Sudan National Basketball Senior Men’s Team a place in the Wild Card Tournament allowing one more team to advance to the AfroBasket 2021 Qualifying Rounds. The tournament will be taking place between 23-25 October in Yaounde, Cameroon where we...

The South Sudan Basketball Federation (SSBF) through the office of Technical and Competition Department, has on Thursday 4th August 2020 called on the Basketball Professionals Players for National Team trainings and preparations ahead of the Afrobasket Qualifiers. The getting some instructions from coach Ajo during the game Photo: SSBF According...

The South Sudan Basketball Federation (SSBF) with the help of Zain South Sudan, has conducted an array of FIBA Technical Official workshops to help gain more qualified personnel domestically. The workshops helped train 10 table officials, 18 referees, 23 coaches, 8 doctors and 4 photographers. In total 63 teammates were...

The South Sudan Basketball Federation (SSBF) Secretary General Mr. Marier Anyuat Angui has confirmed  that the national basketball team “Bright Stars” will take part in the phase two of the preliminary FIBA Afrobasket 2021 qualifiers.  Mr. Anyuat disclosed to kurrasport.com that the team’s name was forwarded to FIBA after the...

According to FIBA.basketball It is well documented that South Sudan has the tallest population in Africa and among the top 10 in the world. This is enough to cast a light on the world's youngest nation's ambitions to conquer the world of basketball. Manute Bol, who was born in Turalei,...

The South Sudan Basketball Federation (SSBF) has on Monday 8th June 2020 kicked off a 5 days Federation of International Basketball Association (FIBA) an online training for local referees and doctors’ in the South Sudan capital Juba. The five days training which kicked off in Juba will be concluded on...

The South Sudan Basketball Federation (SSBF) Secretary General Marier Anyuat while addressing the media on Friday 13/03/2020 in his office has confirmed that at around 11:00am, he was dragged to a Police Station under a police arrest warrant letter issued by Malakia Police Station  According to Anyuat in 2008, there...

The South Sudan Bright Stars National Basketball team have moved 16 place to 107 in the World and 19 in Africa in the latest FIBA World rankings released on 3rd March 2020 The Bright Stars were ranked at 127 in the 2019 official FIBA rankings, the current ranking supershow a...

The South Sudan Basketball Federation (SSBF) has confirmed that, the federation will by Saturday 15th February 2020, carry out a nationwide survey on club and players and the number of coaches in those particular cities.   According to an official from the federation, the survey is going to target the number...

The South Sudan Basketball Federation (SSBF) President, 2012 Olympian and two-time NBA All-Star Luol Deng has been named as BAL Global Ambassador. Following his retirement from an NBA career that spanned 15 years, Deng will help grow the BAL’s profile throughout Africa and around the world, while inspiring African youth...