奧巴馬要在非洲建一支籃球隊！還是NBA出資？

Barack Obama has backed plans for a new basketball league in Africa and is set to take up a role with the project.

巴拉克•奧巴馬將要支持非洲新籃球聯賽計劃，並準備在該項目中擔任角色。

The former US president shared his support for the collaboration between the NBA and the basketball's global governing body FIBA to create an elite competition involving several African countries.

這位前美國總統表示支持NBA與籃球全球管理機構FIBA之間的合作，一起創建幾個非洲國家參與的精英競賽。

He is expected to be “directly involved” with Basketball Africa League, although quite what role he will take remains unclear.

預計他將“直接參與”非洲籃球聯盟的運作，儘管他在團隊具體擔任的角色還不明確。

“I've always loved basketball because it's about building a team that's equal to more than the sum of its parts. Glad to see this expansion into Africa because for a rising continent, this can be about a lot more than what happens on the court,” he tweeted.

“我一直都很喜歡籃球，因爲這是建立團隊，一個比各部分總和更大的團隊。很高興看到這種建設進入非洲，因爲對於一個正在崛起的大陸來說，這不光只和在球場上的比賽有關係，“他寫道。

The initial plan is for the 12-team league to begin playing in January 2020, but it yet to be determined which existing club teams will be part of the league.

最初的計劃是讓12支球隊在2020年1月開始比賽，但尚未確定哪些現有俱樂部球隊會成爲聯盟的成員。

Qualification tournaments will be held later this year to decicde those clubs, with teams from Angola, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia expected to be among those taking part.

資格賽將在今年晚些時候舉行，並以此決定參加俱樂部的隊伍。參賽的隊伍來自安哥拉，埃及，肯尼亞，摩洛哥，尼日利亞，盧旺達，塞內加爾，南非和突尼斯各個地方。

No nation will be allowed to have more than two teams in the league.

任何國家都不會被允許在聯盟中擁有超過兩支球隊。

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said he was excited that Mr Obama wanted to have a role in the initiative, and said talks between the NBA and the former president are ongoing.

NBA總裁亞當·西爾弗表示，他很高興奧巴馬希望在這一舉措中發揮作用，並表示NBA和前總統之間的商討正在進行中。

（翻譯：Jen）