About Basketball Ghana
Basketball Ghana reports on the game in Ghana and on the Ghanaians who play it abroad.
What the site covers
Basketball Ghana follows the game from the school courts of Ghana to the leagues abroad where Ghanaian players make their careers. The coverage runs along four desks, and every report is filed with the city it comes from and the date it was reported, so a reader can see where and when each piece of news belongs.
The Sprite Ball desk
The Sprite Ball is Ghana's national basketball championship for senior high schools, and it is the starting point for most of the names that later appear elsewhere on the site. The desk follows each edition from the regional qualifiers to the national final: the favourites, the surprise runs, the disputes and the girls' division, which has produced some of the closest finals on record. Its page keeps a running list of finals and results, edition by edition.
The schools and local desk
School basketball in Ghana is built on school courts, and the schools and local desk follows them: new floors at schools such as Pope John SHS and Mfantsipim, local tournaments run by clubs and young organisers, and the players who first come to notice there. It also covers the history of televised Ghana basketball, from the Basketball TV highlights programme of 2009 to the streams that carry African basketball today.
The Ghanaians abroad desk
The Ghanaians abroad desk tracks players born in Ghana or with Ghanaian roots who play outside the country: in US college basketball, the NBA and WNBA, and the leagues of Europe and Asia. Signings, debuts, injuries and retirements are reported as they are announced by the clubs and colleges, and statistics are given as they stood on the day of the report.
The players followed most closely include Ben Bentil, from Sekondi-Takoradi, whose career has run from the NBA to China, Greece, Italy, Serbia and Taiwan; Nathan Mensah and Amida Brimah, both born in Accra; and players of Ghanaian heritage such as Laeticia Amihere of Canada.
The Africa desk
The Africa desk covers the continental game seen from Ghana: the Basketball Africa League and its qualifiers, AfroBasket and its qualification windows, the zone tournaments where clubs earn a place on the African stage, and the youth championships where national teams first meet. Scores and venues are given as they were reported, so a reader can follow one team through a whole qualifying window.
The domestic calendar
The Ghanaian season has several layers, and the desks follow all of them. The school year carries the regional qualifiers and the Sprite Ball final. Universities and colleges have had their own championship since the first Universities and Colleges Basketball Championship in 2010. In the capital, the Accra Basketball League plays for a trophy named after Benjamin Baafi, the league chief who died in 2017; Reformers lifted it for the first time in November 2021 after a run of nine straight wins.
Above the domestic game sit the continental competitions: the Basketball Africa League for clubs and AfroBasket for national teams. Ghana's champions enter the league's qualifiers, and the reports on those rounds sit next to the school and league stories, so a reader can follow a player or a club from one level to the next.
Dates and figures
Older reports keep the date they were first filed. When a report is revised, the revision date is shown next to the original date on the page, so it is always clear how current a result, a statistic or a prize figure is. Figures such as prize money, contract terms or season averages are given as they were reported at the time, with the date of the report, and later developments are added with their own dates rather than written over the original.
Each report rests on what was said and announced at the time: statements from schools, clubs, coaches and federations, published results and the clubs' own announcements of signings and departures.