Johannesburg-based team Made By Ball (MBB) will go to the Basketball Africa League (BAL) with 1986 NBA champion Sam Vincent as head coach, the club confirmed to ESPN.
Vincent was drafted by the Boston Celtics in 1985 and won the NBA championship as a reserve in his first season. He went on to play for the Seattle SuperSonics, Chicago Bulls and Orlando Magic.
He coached the South African men's national team to ninth place at the 2003 FIBA Africa Championship - their joint-best ever showing at AfroBasket. Vincent has also coached the Nigeria men's and women's national teams, and was assistant coach at the Dallas Mavericks in 2006/7, and Charlotte Bobcats after that.