The partnership comes as Thunder enter the season as two-time unbeaten Kenya National Basketball League (KNBL) champions and prepare to represent Kenya in the 2026 Basketball Africa League (BAL) for the second time. The Send App branding will feature across matchday activations and digital platforms.

Silverbacks already holds a significant minority stake in the Cape Town Tigers, a team that has competed for three seasons in the Basketball Africa League.

NBA Africa and Senyorita through its snack brand, LION to launch NBA’s First University Basketball Tournament on the African Continent. Lion joins existing partners Allianz and MAVEN Developments as Official Partners of the Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA tournament in Egypt, that will expand to include nearly 150 boys’ and girls’ teams this year.

Financially, the firm has delivered: 13.7x overall cash-on-cash returns across fintech investments over five years, 29x return on LemFi following a $53m Series B, 5x cash-out from OmniRetail Africa.

NBA provided winners with financial support and the opportunity to join the Carnegie Mellon University Africa 12-Month Business Incubation program. See all prize winners.

This will grant the ESPN Africa english-language rights across Sub-Saharan Africa until 2029 for distribution on ESPN pay television services.

The league launched the program last year to support the continents technology advancement and ecosystem and the next African entrepreneurs. The program is open to early-stage African startup companies that develop solutions in the sport and creative industries.

For the first time in 9 years, CANAL+ Group's MultiChoice Group -SuperSport will show the National Basketball Association (NBA) in Africa after a new rights deal was agreed with the league.

The league is looking to evolve into a 12-team league with permanent franchises in the coming years, these teams will own their own arenas and have permanent homes across the continent.

The partnership will see the existing Angola-focused brand’s collaboration extend to other parts of Africa including the Democratic Republic of Congo, The Gambia and Sierra Leone.