The 2022–23 season of the Cape Town Tigers was the 3rd season of the South African basketball team. The Tigers played in the Basketball Africa League (BAL) for a second straight season, following their win in the Road to BAL's East Division.
In the 2023 BAL season, the Tigers were coached by former New York Knicks assistant coach Rasheed Hazzard. They were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Stade Malien, their second consecutive year in which they were eliminated in this round.
Domestically, the Tigers were coached by Florsheim Ngwenya and made their debut in the Basketball National League (BNL), South Africa's sole professional league. They went undefeated and won the semifinal and final by wide margins to be crowned South African champions for the third time.
Players
BAL roster (April – May) The following Tigers roster played during the 2023 BAL season. Josh Hall played for the Tigers in the Nile Conference.
BNL roster (June – July) The following Tigers roster played in the 2023 BNL season between June and July 2023. NoPlayer0Dumisani Gebashe3Dylan Whitbread10Lebesa Selepe11Lebohang Mofokeng14Nkosinathi Sibanyoni23Akeem Springs24Sita Conteh25Pieter Prinsloo34Somusa Mthembu41Braydon Wooley44Gloire Kabange45Rabbi BeloloHCFlorsheim Ngwenya
Competitions
Overview
Basketball National League All games were played at the Mandeville Indoor Hall in Johannesburg.
Group phase GamedayDateOpponentsResultRecord14 June 2023Mpumalanga RhinosW 65–831–0211 June 2023Egoli MagicW 76–472–0325 June 2023Western Cape MountaineersW 106–463–049 July 2023Limpopo PrideW 97–514–058 DecemberFree State WarriorsW 36–1075–0
Final round
Road to BAL
Elite 16
Final round
Basketball Africa League
Nile Conference
Playoffs
Player statistics
After all games.
| ≠ || 1 || style=""| 37.9 || .300 || style=""|.375 || style=""|1.000 || 4.0 || 1.0 || 1.0 || 0.0 ||style=""| 17.0 |- | || 4 || 34.6 || .400 || .083 || .750 || 4.5 || 1.8 || 1.8 || 0.0 || 15.8 |- | || 6 || 34.8 || .356 || .300 || .783 || style=""|7.8 || 3.7 || 1.3 || 0.5 || 13.7 |- | || 6 || 30.6 ||style=""|.478 || .235 || .524 || 5.3 || 2.3 || style=""|2.0 || 0.2 || 13.5 |- | ~ || 3 || 29.0 || .389 || .222 || .444 || 6.0 || 1.3 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 12.7 |- | || 6 || 30.1 || .357 || .294 || .810 || 4.5 || 2.2 || 0.3 || style=""|1.0 || 11.2 |- | || 4 || 29.7 || .429 || .250 || .909 || 3.8 ||style=""| 4.3 || 0.8 || 0.5 || 9.3 |- | || 2 || 18.1 || .400 || .333 || style=""|1.000 || 4.5 || 0.5 || 1.5 || 0.0 || 5.5 |- | || 6 || 9.4 || .294 || .000 || .750 || 1.8 || 0.0 || 0.2 || 0.2 || 2.2 |- | || 5 || 16.2 || .200 || .167 || .167 || 2.4 || 1.0 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 1.8 |- | || 3 || 10.4 || .200 || .000 || .500 || 2.0 || 0.7 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 1.3 |- | || 2 || 6.4 || .000 || .000 || .500 || 0.5 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.5 || 0.5 |- | || 4 || 6.8 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 1.0 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 |} ≠Acquired during the season ~Waived during the season
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