[3] Petro de Luanda from Angola won their first BAL championship after defeating Al Ahly Ly from Libya in the final.

On 19 June 2023, the BAL and the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) announced they agreed on a multi-year extension to their collaboration.

[10] APR, Al Ahly Ly, Bangui Sporting Club, Dynamo and FUS Rabat made their league debuts.

Al Ahly Ly, Bangui Sporting Club and Dynamo were the first teams from Libya, the Central African Republic, and Burundi, respectively, to play in the BAL.

Al Ahly finished in the fourth place, after previously beating the NBA G League Ignite to become the first African team to win a game in the competition's history.

In the opening day game between Burundi's Dynamo and South Africa's Cape Town Tigers, the Burundian side taped off the logo of league sponsor Visit Rwanda.

[64][65] Dynamo forfeited their second game against FUS Rabat on 10 March, with the BAL citing "refusing to comply with the league’s rules governing jersey and uniform requirements" as the reason why.

[67] Dynamo players Bryton Hobbs and Makhtar Gueye stated that the Burundian government had prohibited the team to wear the logo and ordered the club to forfeit its games if necessary.

Defending champions Al Ahly captured its first Nile Conference title,[69] despite surprisingly losing one game to lower-ranked City Oilers.

[70] Al Ahly Ly edged out Bangui SC for the second place, winning the tiebreaker on head-to-head performance.

The Rivers Hoopers clinched the Sahara Conference title and qualified for their first playoff appearance, after having missed out in 2021.

APR was eliminated after a loss to Douanes on the final gameday, becoming the first Rwandan team to fail to qualify for the playoffs.

Petro de Luanda became the first team to reach four consecutive semi-finals, while the Al Ahly Ly, the Cape Town Tigers and the Rivers Hoopers made their semi-final debuts and became the first teams from Libya, South Africa and Nigeria, respectively, to qualify for the stage.

The league's all-time records for points, rebounds, steals and blocks in a single game were all broken this year.