Tag: basketball

Imprisoned U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, who was sentenced by a Russian court to nine years in prison, has been ...

Hosts Tunisia claimed their second FIBA AfroBasket title after beating Nigeria’s D’Tigers 77-65 in Saturday’s final match in Tunis. Zied ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the national female basketball team, D’Tigress, for winning the 2017 FIBA Women’s Afrobasket tournament in ...

Basketball fans in Lagos have poured encomiums on the senior national men’s team, D’Tigers for their new status as the ...

  The U.S. beat Spain 101-72 to take gold, staying undefeated in Olympic play for six straight tournaments. The U.S. ...

  Nigeria’s D’Tigers on Monday crashed out of the ongoing Rio Olympics men basketball event, losing 69-86 to hosts Brazil. ...

  Paul Gasol scored 24 points, Ricky Rubio added 15 and Spain rallied for a crucial 96-87 win over Nigeria ...

  The Lithuanians were pushed by the African side in a high-scoring, exciting affair at the Olympics. Lithuania remained undefeated ...

  Nigeria 66 - 94 Argentina Croatia 72 - 70 Spain Brazil 76 - 82 Lithuania STANDINGS Team P W ...

  Manu Ginobili got his fourth Olympics started with 12 points and an easy victory, as Argentina beat Nigeria 94-66 ...

  Team USA ended their pre-Olympic tourney the same way they started: with pure dominance as the Americans destroyed Nigeria’s ...

  Nigeria will have nine of the 12 players that reached the top of the AfroBasket 2015 podium when they ...

  Rivers Hoopers on Wednesday lost their last group game to all conquering Kano Pillars 83-62 to finish runners up ...

It’s been nine months since Nigeria won its first-ever AfroBasket title in Rades, Tunisia, and American Will Voigt, the man ...

More sanctions have come the way of three Nigerian basketball referees less than a month after the Nigeria Basketball Federation ...

Sprite Triple Slam took over the sidelines of the Faceoff Celebrity Basketball event, organised by Playcentre Nigeria which held at ...

The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), in collaboration with Alpha Plus Mega Concepts, has concluded arrangements to hold an elite basketball ...