SOUTH AFRICA - Egoli Magic 2015 BNL Champions

Sunday the 6^th of September might be remembered as South African Basketball’s judgement day. A day drawn to us by fate as the Egoli Magic and Duzi Royals met up for game 3 of the Basketball National League finals. With the teams splitting the 1^st 2 games, we were in for a grand finale as this was the season decider.
Egoli Magic started the game with Nkosinathi Festile running the point guard position as Jose Salvador was still stretching out his calf muscle which he suffered cramps on towards the end of game 2. Festile helped to set the tone early for Egoli as he and Captain Lesego Molebatsi gave the Magic an early lead of 17-7 after the 1^st quarter. It almost looked like we were about to have the same storyline as game 2 with the Royals failing to score, but they steadily picked up the fight in the 2^nd quarter behind some inspired play by their bench players. The score was 33-25 to Egoli at halftime, but the Royals held good momentum going into the half.