Stakeholders of Nigerian basketball were full of joy when Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF, and DStv, sponsor of the men’s league announced a new four-year deal for the league. The new deal is worth about N230 million ($1.45 million) for the duration of 2013 till 2017, a substantial increase on the N150 million ($1 million) that [...]
Reigning champions, First Deepwater Basketball Club and former champions, First Bank of Lagos won their respective groups to emerge champions at the just concluded first phase of Zenith Bank Women’s Basketball League in Abuja. With an average of 73.85 points per game, coach Lateef Erinfolami-led Deepwater emerged winners of Group A that included teams such [...]
The Miami Heat rebounded from the end of their 27-game winning streak by clinching the top seed in the Eastern Conference with a 108-89 win over the New Orleans Hornets on Friday. LeBron James nailed seven three pointers en route to a 36-point effort for the Heat who saw the second-longest win streak in National [...]
The Chicago Bulls ended the Miami Heat’s 27-game winning streak on Wednesday with a 101-97 triumph that halted the reigning champions’ bid for NBA history. The Heat’s streak was the second-best winning run in major North American professional sport — halted six games short of matching the 33-game NBA winning streak of the 1971-72 Los [...]
Former champions, First Bank of Lagos will battle Dolphins in the ongoing first phase of Nigerian women’s basketball league taking place at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Abuja. The match scheduled to dunk off at 4.30pm Monday will be the second match for both sides after they recorded victories in their opening [...]
Nigeria’s junior wheelchair basketball players will storm Johanessburg, South Africa on Wednesday for the forthcoming U- 23 African Wheelchair Basketball Championship holding in South Africa from 29 March-9 April, 2013. The one week tourney will be used as the African qualifiers for World Junior Championship holding in Turkey later in the year. According to the [...]
For the umpteenth time, the first jump ball of the 2012/2013 basketball league season was postponed indefinitely by the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF, last weekend. Secretary of the NBBF, Francis Gbiri had last Thursday announced the postponement of the DSTV-sponsored league citing inability of some clubs to register their teams for the new season. Since the 2011/20122 [...]
