Basketball
President Muhammadu Buhari has joined Nigerians and Basketball fans all over the world in celebrating D’Tigers for a successful outing at FIBA World Cup 2019, defeating China, 86-73, and securing a place for Olympics 2020. President Buhari congratulates the team for the energetic, resilient and skillful outing that saw them out-playing and out-pacing opponents during […]
Nigeria’s D’tigers have secured automatic qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by beating china today in their final classification game of the FIBA basketball world cup. Nigeria failed to progress from their group finishing with 2 losses and a win but have secured their place at next year’s summer games by finishing as the highest-ranked […]
FIBA World Cup: The knives were out in China on Thursday after the basketball World Cup hosts failed to reach the second round, triggering criticism normally reserved for the country’s woeful football squad. Chinese basketball boss Yao Ming, an NBA Hall of Famer, was reduced to 7ft 5in of melancholy at the Beijing courtside Wednesday […]
Nigeria’s D’Tigers have rounded off their FIBA world cup group stage campaign with a resounding win over South Korea, thereby keeping alive their hopes of securing their spot at the Tokyo Olympics as Africa’s top-ranked side. After a tight first quarter, D’tigers dominated the second, third and 4th quarters on their way to a 108-66 […]
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