Luol Deng and Kemba Walker say they are looking forward to sharing their knowledge with young campers during this week's Basketball Without Borders development camp taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Basketball Without Borders Africa, now in its 15th year, is the League's flagship annual development programme on the continent.
Speaking after the official launch of this year's camp at the American International School in Johannesburg, Team World co-captain Walker believes the week will be life-changing for both the campers and himself.
"This is my first time in Africa and this is something that a lot of my fellow players dream of doing, and now that I am here I am very excited," he said.
"Bismack Biyombo and I were drafted together in 2011 and he has always been trying to get me to come to Africa, and it's an honour for me to be here for BWB and the Africa Game."
Team Africa co-captain Deng, who will be captaining his second NBA Africa Game, said he was honored to be back on the continent of his birth and was looking forward to spending some time with the African kids ahead of the weekend's festivities.
"We have so many Africa players in the NBA at the moment and hopefully through initiatives like Basketball Without Borders this will keep increasing and kids on the continent will continue believing in their potential," he said.
Deng, who has been to a number of BWB Africa camps, strongly believes that the development of basketball on the continent is heading in the right direction, and added that besides helping the kids through mentoring them during them camps he can attend, he also benefits a lot from interacting with them.
It is impressive that there are currently Jr. NBA leagues in 11 countries, but there are 54 countries on the continent which means there is still a lot of work to be done in making the sport more accessible, he feels.
"The more leagues and programs are set up on the continent, the better the exposure that the kids will have to the sport and more untapped talent will be exposed."