Welcome to the G League—the official minor league of the National Basketball Association. Life in the G is about the arduous quest to achieve an improbable goal: making it to the NBA.Life in the G League is far from glamorous. Players make enormous sacrifices and work unimaginable hours in the hope that someone in the NBA will give them a chance. To this day, very few fans—even the most passionate followers of the NBA—know much about the G League. In the fall of 2021, the ...

A compelling, eye-opening chronicle of the rise of basketball in modern Africa and the burgeoning talent pipeline poised to transform the NBA For a long time, hoop dreams born in Africa felt unattainable. The game had a small presence on the continent, taking a back seat to sports like soccer and track and field. Lacking a clear pathway to the NBA, players such as Hakeem Olajuwon, Dikembe Mutombo, and Manute Bol needed extraordinary luck to make it. But over the past 30 years, the basketba...