The Nigeria Basketball Federation has thanked the Minister of Youth and Sports, Hon. Sunday Dare for his fatherly intervention towards sourcing funds for injured D’Tigress player, Nkem Akaraiwe. The federation described the $15,000 intervention by the Ministry as an early Christmas gift whic... Read more...
It was yet another impressive performance from D’Tigers as they defeated their fierce West African rivals, Cote D’Ivoire 83-66 points in their first classification game at the ongoing 2019 FIBA World Cup. The team was inspired by Al-Farouq Aminu with 13 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists to em... Read more...
It is the largest basketball World Cup ever but there will be no teams from Asia or Africa continents in the second round of one of the biggest sport's global showpiece. Hosts China with their 1.4 billion population crashed out of contention on Wednesday with a 72-59 defeat to Venezuela. That... Read more...
Nigeria’s senior male basketball coach, Alex Nwora has said that getting the ticket for 2020 Olympic Games was not the target of the team, Bestchoicesports.com.ng can report. Coach Nwora who spoke after the D’Tigers won their first game in the on-going 2019 FIBA World Cup in China against Ko... Read more...
D’Tigers’ Vincent Nnamdi is not losing sleep over the final 12 man roster for the 2019 FIBA Men’s World Cup in China as Nigerians wait with bated breath. With the competition becoming so stiff amongst the players in camp, the shooting guard said the pressure is definitely on the coaching c... Read more...