Nigeria’s D’Tigress put up a good fight but were ultimately beaten by Germany in a warm-up game ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics. The African champions, ranked 12th globally by FIBA, lost to the 19th-ranked Germany in the preparation game played at the UBER Arena in Berlin on Friday as the game finished 77-63 in favour of the Germans. D’Tigress, …

The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has invited 20 players to the first phase of camping in Abuja to mark the commencement of D’Tigress’ preparations for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Murjanatu Musa, who plays for Celta Zorka in Spain, and Ifunanya Okoro of Tindastoll (Iceland) headline the list dominated by home-based players. AfroBasket winner Nkem Akaraiwe of Nigeria Customs …

A young Nigerian basketballer, David Etim, has bagged three United States scholarship offers after encountering a Calabar-born lawyer, Faithfulness Okom. Narrating how he met Etim to The PUNCH on Thursday, Okom said he met Etim in 2021 while driving in Calabar that fateful Saturday and was fascinated with his height and decided to lure him into playing basketball. According to …

The son of NBA legend LeBron, Bronny James has announced he will enter the 2024 draft. It comes less than a year after the 19-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest during practice at the University of Southern California (USC). He had surgery to repair a congenital heart defect but returned to make his college debut for USC in December. All-time NBA …

Nigeria’s national women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, Africa’s sole representatives in the basketball event at the Paris 2024 Olympics have been paired in Group B alongside Australia, Canada and France. The draw took place on Tuesday at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Mies, Switzerland and was overseen by basketball icons Penny Taylor and NBA legend Carmelo Anthony. According to …

D’Tigress will know their group opponents for the Paris 2024 Olympics women’s basketball event when the draw for the tournament holds at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Switzerland on Tuesday. The draw will be overseen by basketball icons Penny Taylor and former NBA superstar Carmelo Anthony. D’Tigress poised for a consecutive appearance after participating in the 2020 Tokyo …

Egypt continues to amass medals in the table tennis event of the 13th African Games as the duo of Yousssef Abdelaziz and Mariam Alhodaby added the fifth gold medals after beating Algeria’s Stephane Ouaiche and Lucie Mobarek 3-0 to emerge as new mixed doubles champions. Nigeria missed out from the podium after losing in the quarterfinal of the mixed doubles …

Head coach of Nigeria’s senior male basketball team, Mohamed Abdulrahman, has blamed poor funding for his side’s underwhelming performance at the recently concluded 2025 FIBA AfroBasket qualifiers in Monastir, Tunisia. The 2015 African champions had initially withdrawn from the AfroBasket qualifiers window due to the inability of the Ministry of Sports to provide the federation with the needed funds for …

The Basketball Africa League (BAL) has announced that five new teams and three new countries are among the 12 club teams from 12 African countries that will compete in the 2024 BAL season, which will tip off on Saturday, 9 March 2024, at SunBet Arena in Pretoria, South Africa. The fourth BAL season will feature a record 48 games in …

D’Tigress of Nigeria have qualified for the women’s basketball event of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Nigeria booked a place after Belgium defeated Senegal on Friday at the ongoing 2024 Olympics qualification tournament in Belgium. Earlier, D’Tigress had lost to the US 100-46 in their second game at the competition, but a favourable result in the other match in the group sent them …