D’Tigress of Nigeria have beaten the Opals of Australia 75-62 in women’s basketball at the Paris Olympics. Point guard Ezinne Kalu produced a clutch performance, inspiring the Rena Wakama-coached team to withstand a late rally from the Aussies at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium on Monday. The victory was Nigeria’s first at the Games since Athens 2004. Kalu finished the game …

Head coach of Nigeria’s female basketball national team, D’Tigress, Rena Wakama, has named the squad that will be defending the colours of the country at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France. Forward Amy Okonkwo, who has been an inspiration to the team after claiming MVP honours at the FIBA Women’s AfroBasket 2023 and impressed in a big way at …

Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team, the D’Tigress suffered a second consecutive warm-up game defeat to Serbia in Belgrade on Sunday as they continued their preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympics Games which will be held between 26 July and 11 August in France. The African champions lost 70-62 points to the 10th-ranked country in the FIBA World ranking. This is …

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 …