Tag: Basketball
2 Nigerian sisters make history in US basketball draft
The only person who wasn’t convinced that Chiney Oguwmike would be the top pick in the 2014 Women’s National Basketball…
Ogwumike is WNBA Draft Prospect
Nigerian-American Chiney Ogwumike of Stanford is expected to be the top overall pick when the WNBA draft draw will take…
Basketball: Nigeria Need Wild Card To Redeem Image
Nigeria’s D’Tigers’ failure to secure a ticket for the inaugural FIBA World Cup holding in Spain later this year is…
NBA: LeBron, Durant pace All-Star ballot leaders
NEW YORK (AFP) – Four-time NBA Most Valuable Player LeBron James and NBA scoring leader Kevin Durant are the top…
Lagos Int’l B/Ball Classics: 10 Teams Axed For Cheating
No fewer than 10 of the 24 teams which registered for the junior category of the competition at the maiden…
Lagos Basketball Classics Begins
Mobolaji Johnson Sports Centre, Rowe Park comes alive as the Lagos International Basketball Classics dunks off today. Beside hosts Nigeria,…
I Want To Be A World Star –Ayetimiyi
Abiodun Francis Ayetimiyi was meant to follow his father and pursue medicine in Nigeria. He found a different path one…
Basketball: Injured Okafor Sad
Washington center Emeka Okafor will be sidelined indefinitely with a herniated disc while NBA teammate Chris Singleton will miss between…
Basketball: What Went Wrong At Afrobasket —Bakare
Unknowing to many basketball pundits, there were a lot of things that contributed to the poor outing of D’Tigers at…
NBA To Install Motion Cameras
The NBA announced Thursday that it will install motion-tracking cameras in every arena this season to provide coaches, players and…
DStv B/Ball League: Union Bank Lead, As Playoffs End Today
With two victories out of the two matches they have played so far, Union Bank of Lagos are in the…
DStv League Playoffs: B/Ball Clubs Begin Title Chase
Four teams, two each from the Savannah and Atlantic conferences, will begin battle for the Nigerian basketball league title when…
D’Tigers Fail To Roar
The 27th edition of AfroBasket came to an end on Saturday at the Palais des Sports Treichville in Abidjan, Cote…
2013 Afrobasket: Cape Verde Beat D’Tigers
Nigeria men’s national team, D’Tigers were on Thursday night defeated by Cape Verde 76-79 to continue their losing streak at…
Afrobasketball: ‘D’Tigers Now Unstoppable’
With Central African Republic, CAR, out of their way, assistant captain of Nigeria’s senior national male basketball team, D’ Tigers,…
Nigeria’s D’Tigers book Q/final date with Senegal
Nigeria’s D’Tigers on Tuesday,walloped Central African Republic to book a quarter-final place in the on-going 2013 Afrobasket Championship, in Abidjan,…
2013 Afrobasketball: Egypt Beat Tunisia 77-67
Egypt men’s national team on Tuesday defeated the defending champions, Tunisia 77-67 to create an upset at the ongoing 2013…
Afrobasket: Nigeria’s D’Tigers beat Congolese team
Nigeria’s basketball team, D’Tigers on Friday beat Congolese team 93-75 to record its second straight victory in the on-going African…
Afrobasket: Injuries Hit D’Tigers
Reports emanating from Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, venue of the ongoing 27th Afrobasket indicate that two key players of the Nigerian…
2013 Afrobasket: D’Tigers Begin Title Chase In Abidjan
Nigeria men’s national team, the D’tigers and 15 other African nations on Tuesday in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire began competition in…
DStv League: Final Four Playoffs Teams Emerged
Former Nigeria basketball league champions, Kano Pillars of Kano and Union Bank of Lagos would lead other teams from the…
DStv League: NBBF Postpones Playoffs Indefinitely
Barely 72 hours before the dunk off day of the 2012/2013 DStv sponsored men’s basketball league final four playoffs, Nigeria…
Keeping Lagos Athletes Busy
Despite the holiday for the Eid-el-Fitri, Lagos State athletes were busy competing in the Quarterly Inter-Clubs Competition throughout the period.…
2013 Women’s Afrobasket: Nnaji Aims High With D’Tigress
For Nigeria’s women’s national team, Maputo was the place where their glory days started a decade ago following a 69-63…
DSTV B/Ball League: Comets, Hawks Relegated
Former league champions, Comets of Lagos and Yelwa Hawks of Bauchi have been relegated from the top flight of Nigerian…
DStv Men’s League: Warriors, Hoopers Battle For Playoffs Ticket
With three teams already qualified for the Top Four Playoffs in the Atlantic Conference of DStv sponsored Nigeria Basketball League,…
2013 Afrobasket: D’Tigers, Others Gear Up Preparations
A lot of African national teams tend to associate their under-achievement at major tourneys to lack of international competition as…
D’Tigers Battle Venezuela In Orlando Today
After they recorded a victory against Venezuela in a friendly on Friday, the Nigeria national men’s team, D’Tigers will today…
MILO Schools Tourney: Oladunjoye Tasks ISL To Retain Title
Following their maiden triumph in the 2013 MILO all secondary schools basketball championship, the Commissioner for Education in Lagos State,…
2013 Afrobasket: D’Tigers’ Trio Sure Of Victory
Three home-based players, who debuted for the senior national men’s team, D’Tigers, at the just concluded Stankovic Cup in China,…