Dec. 13, 2022: NBA Africa today named Mohamed Abdel-Motaleb Soliman as Vice President and Head of NBA Egypt, where the league’s fourth office on the continent will open in early 2023. “The launch of our fourth African office in Cairo reflects our belief in the enormous potential for basketball and the NBA in Egypt,” said Williams. He is a three-time Most Valuable Player of the Egyptian Basketball Super League (1993, 1995 and 1998) and was voted the Arab Basketball Confederation’s best player in 1995. He was named vice president of the Egyptian Basketball Federation in 2012, a member of the FIBA Competitions Commission in 2014, and deputy secretary general of the Egyptian Olympic Committee in 2022. Earlier this year, Cairo’s Hassan Mostafa Indoor Sports Complex served as the host venue of the Basketball Africa League’s Nile Conference group phase and the 18th edition of Basketball Without Borders Africa, the NBA and FIBA’s global basketball development and community outreach program.

Source: Egypt Today December 14, 2022 01:33 UTC