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Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League
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TV DNA
How Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League reads strongest on Serialized, Cliffhanger Intensity and Tension.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
Documents the creation and launch of the NBA's first collaboration to operate a league outside North America, a pan-African professional basketball league in partnership with FIBA featuring 12 top club teams from across Africa's 54 countries competing in a caravan format.
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Latest Episodes
S01E01
The Long Road to the BAL
- Directed by Tebogo Malope, Richard Brown
- Written by Richard Brown
S01E02
Right Here, Right Now
- Directed by Tebogo Malope, Richard Brown
- Written by Richard Brown
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Tebogo MalopeExecutive Producer
- Richard BrownExecutive Producer
- Akin OmotosoExecutive Producer
- Fisher StevensExecutive Producer
- Masai UjiriExecutive Producer
Writing
- Richard BrownWriter
Direction
- Tebogo MalopeDirector
- Richard BrownDirector
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