Basketball in Africa

The Egyptian league started last night. Gezira passed Shorta by a miracle after Shorta player missed a free throw in the last second to take the game to overtime score was 70-70.Shorta proved that they will not be an easy team this season and showed a lot of resistance finishing the first half behind Gezira with 2 points 33-35.We expect that importing players this season will help the small teams to compete and will add a lot to Egyptian league. Khaled El Kadi (193-G-84)scored 12 points in the overtime saving his team from an unexpected defeat.