Sonny Side of Sports - VOA Africa

Sonny tips off Wednesday’s show with the National Basketball Association (NBA) play offs, where the Denver Nuggets defeated the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday, 132-126 in game one of the Western Conference Finals.

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On Tuesday's show:

We're joined by Nigerian basketball analyst Queen Joseph-Moseph as we tip off the show with a look at the 2023 Basketball Africa League (BAL) Playoffs in Kigali, Rwanda, where Mali’s Stade Malien is set to go up against South Africa’s Cape Town Tigers on May 20 in the first quarterfinal match up.

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We tip off Monday’s show with news related to the 2023 Basketball Africa League, where veteran shooting guard Carlos Morais of Angola’s "Petro de Luanda" has been highlighted as one of the players to watch during the play offs that are set for Kigali, Rwanda.

Sonny also updates on the weekend’s National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs where historically successful teams, the "Boston Celtics" and the "Los Angeles Lakers" remain in contention to win the trophy.

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Sonny tips off Friday's show with an update on the National Basketball Association Playoffs. The Boston Celtics and the Denver Nuggets both posted big road victories on Thursday night. The Celtics defeated the Philadelphia 76ers, 95-86, to even their playoff series at 3-3; and the Nuggets routed the Phoenix Suns, 125-100, to win their series, 4-2, and advance to the Western Conference Finals.

It'll be an audio extravaganza with reaction from some of the league's biggest stars, including Boston's Jayson Tatum, Philadelphia's 2023 NBA MVP Joel Embiid, and Denver's two-time league MVP Nikola Jokic.

On Thursday’s show:

Reporter Yaw Ofosu Larbi profiles James Dadzie, a Ghanaian student-athlete at Western Texas College in the US, who now holds Ghana’s 200m record after clocking 19.79 seconds at a meet held in Lubbock, Texas.

Sonny will give us more athletics-related news as he previews Saturday’s Kip Keino Classic meet set for Nairobi, Kenya, where Kenyan sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala is promising to break his continental record of 9.77 seconds.

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On Wednesday's show, Sonny and Muqbil Yabarow discuss the ongoing National Basketball Association Playoffs.

In NBA playoff action Tuesday night, the league's recently crowned MVP, Cameroonian big man Joel Embiid, tallied a team-high 33 points to help lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 115-103 road victory against the Boston Celtics. Philadelphia now leads the best-of-seven series, 3-2.

And the Denver Nuggets defeated the visiting Phoenix Suns, 118-102, and now lead that series, 3-2. Denver's two-time league MVP, Serbian big man Nikola Jokic, tallied a triple-double: 29 pts., 13 reb. and 12 asst.

Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen (middle) recently became the highest-scoring African player ever (47 goals) in Italy's top football league, Serie A, when he converted a penalty shot in Napoli's 1-0 win over Fiorentina. We'll have reaction on Tuesday's show from Fisayo Dairo, the chief football writer at www.aclsports.com.

Also on the program, you'll hear part two of Sonny's interview with Pieter Prinsloo, the captain of the Cape Town Tigers basketball club. Prinsloo says he thinks South Africa might host stages of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) tournament in the next few years.

On Monday’s show:

We hear from Pieter Prinsloo, captain of the Cape Town Tigers - South Africa’s representatives at the 2023 Basketball Africa League, who have qualified for the playoffs twice consecutively.

We also hear from Liz Mills, the head coach of Abijan Basketball Club who on May 21 go up against Angola’s Petro de Luanda.

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On Friday’s show:

We hear from Grace Kwizera, the manager of Uganda’s City Oilers basketball club that is playing in the Nile Conference of the 2023 Basketball Africa League.

 

Kwizera was the special guest in this week’s edition of VOA’s “Nuthin’ But Net” podcast where he broke down the City Oilers performance thus far at the premier basketball tournament and touched on the integration of U.S. players into his team.

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We tip off Thursday’s show with updates on the Basketball Africa League.

Angola’s Petro de Luanda Wednesday became the first Nile Conference team to qualify for the playoffs after Sudan-born Ater Majok came off the bench and tallied a team-high 15 points against Guinea’s Seyodou Legacu Athletic Club (SLAC), ending in a 95-78 score in favor of the southern Africans.

In news related to the National Basketball Association’s playoffs, Joel Embiid, the league’s new MVP of Cameroonian descent returned to the court last night for the Philadelphia 76ers but experienced a bad come back after experiencing defeat to the Boston Celtics 121-87, to even the best-of-seven, second round series at 1-1.

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