Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League, a four-part documentary scored by Segun Akinola from directors Richard Brown (True Detective) & Tebogo Malope (Queen Sono), executive producers Masai Ujiri, Akin Omotoso (Rise) and Fisher Stevens (Beckham), had its world premiere in competition at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2025, as part of the Primetime lineup.

Origin 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. The series captures the realization of a vision decades in the making, spearheaded by Amadou Gallo Fall and Masai Ujiri, who transformed their long-held dream of elite African basketball into reality, and goes behind the scenes throughout BAL’s first season as it follows the stories of key players, coaches, and teams as they compete to be the historic first BAL champions.

The series will be released by ESPN in the USA and Bell Media in Canada where it will be available to stream on TSN & Crave. You can watch the trailer here.