Three-time league champions Rivers Hoopers have secured the signature of American Billy Baptist and Egyptian Ahmed Hamdy Mohamed. Baptist spent his 2013/2014 season in the NBA Developmental League for the Bakersfield Jam. He appeared in 42 games for the Jam and averaged 7.3 PPG, 4.3 RPG and 1.2 APG. The 32 year old small forward […]
The Basketball Africa League (BAL) today named two-time NBA All-Star and 2012 Olympian Luol Deng as BAL Global Ambassador. Following his retirement from an NBA career that spanned 15 years, Deng will help grow the BAL’s profile throughout Africa and around the world, while inspiring African youth through basketball. “I am thrilled to work with […]
Nigeria’s D’Tigress on today booked a ticket to the 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo despite losing to host-Serbia in their second group game at the ongoing FIBA Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament 64-70 points. Mozambique’s quest to qualify ahead of Nigeria suffered a heavy knock when they lost scandalously 49-124pts against current world champions- USA as […]
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D’Tigress Inches Away From Tokyo 2020 Olympics After Win Against Mozambique D’Tigress took a bold step towards securing a 2020 Olympics ticket after recording a blowout victory against Mozambique, 85-51 points On the night that all the 12 players on the roaster scored at least two points, Promise Amukamara was the one who led the […]
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…Nwora and Bikerstaff to work as Associate Head Coaches The Nigeria Basketball Federation has announced the appointment of Mike Brown as head coach of the senior men’s national team ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Currently with the National Basketball Association franchise, Golden State Warriors as an associate head coach, Brown will lead […]
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D’Tigress players have set their sights on clinching one of the available tickets on offer when they begin their Olympics Qualifiers Tournament campaign against Mozambique today. Having missed the 2016 Olympic games in Brazil, the high flying team currently ranked 17th in the world on the back of a quarter final finish at the World […]
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WNBA star and Nigerian-American basketball star, Chinenye “Chiney” Ogwumike has traced passion and purpose as one of the main ingredients for her success as a professional basketball player. The Los Angeles Sparks player who is one of the fastest rising basketball analysts in the world was a guest at Avi-Cenna International School in Ikeja as […]
via WNBA Star, “Chiney” Ogwumike Storms Nigeria — finixsportsblog
D’Tigress Centre, Evelyn Akhator says qualification for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo is a lifelong dream that must come through. Speaking from her base in Salamanca, Spain where she plies her trade with CB Avenida, the 2019 FIBA Afrobasket winner said Olympics qualification and an outstanding performance is the height of any professional sports […]
via Nigeria’s Evelyn Akhator Eager To Fulfil Olympics Qualification Dreams — finixsportsblog
The senior women National Basketball team has been seeded in pot three alongside Japan, Brazil and Great Britain ahead of the draw ceremony for the 2020 Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament. The team picked one of the two available slots from Africa after beating Mali in the semifinal of the FIBA Africa organized pre-qualifiers held in […]
via 2020 Olympics Qualifiers: Nigeria’s D’Tigress Land In Pot 3 — finixsportsblog
Rivers Hoopers have been crowned the NBBF President Cup champions after a resounding 97-57 points win over Raptors of Lagos in the final to book the only NBA-FIBA Basketball League ticket. Ikechukwu Benjamin recorded 20 points, 1 assist and 3 rebounds on a night that the team under Coach Ogoh Odaudu got everything right. The […]
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Rivers Hoopers and Raptors have qualified for the semifinals of the 2019 President Cup National Final 8 currently going on in Lagos after two straight wins in group A and B respectively. Hoopers popularly referred to as the KingsMen defeated hard fighting Benue Braves 91-66 points with Abdul Yahaya scoring 19points and 8 rebounds while […]
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Two Nigerian Women club representatives, Air Warriors and MFM Queens of Lagos will not be participating in the FIBA Zone 3 Women Club championship elimination series having been handed automatic tickets to the 2019 FIBA Africa Club championship to be played in December. According to a memo from the FIBA Africa Zone 3 office headed […]
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