There is an 8,692-mile difference between Milwaukee and Pretoria, South Africa. That won’t stop first-year Milwaukee Bucks scouting coordinator Ijeoma “Ejay” Ofomata from keeping track of the Basketball Africa League, her former employer, when the 2024 season begins Saturday in Pretoria. “It’s bittersweet. I’m not going to lie. But at least I know that I contributed to it before I left,” Ofomata told Andscape in a recent interview via the Zoom platform. “I finished developing the schedule and everything and we had identified the markets that we were going to play in. So, I feel good knowing that I was able to still contribute to the first time we’ll be going into four markets in the league for the BAL. “I’m rooting for them every part of the way. As you can see, I’m still saying ‘us’ because it would always be part of me. I don’t think I’m leaving it.”