Tag: basketball
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Nigeria’s U16 basketball team for Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games
Nigeria’s Under-16 female basketball team has received an official invitation to participate in a preparatory tournament in Dakar in what has been described by the Nigeria Olympic Committee as “a significant step” toward the upcoming Youth Olympic Games in Dakar 2026. The NOC announced that the invitation comes from the Local Organizing Committee of the…
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How Hoops N’ Read beat Kwara Falcons 94-48 without mercy
Pius Ayinor Hoops N’ Read Basketball Club have extended their unbeaten run in the Nigeria Basketball Men’s Premier League to three and in the process beat Kwara Falcons 94-48 mercilessly. The Lagos team took Kwara Falcons by storm on Tuesday, sweeping aside the birds of prey from Ilorin 94-48 at the basketball courts of Samuel…
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Rivers Hoopers beat Oluyole, Hoops N’ Read dim Comets
Rivers Hoopers made it a second consecutive victory following their 77-43 win over Oluyole Warriors in the Atlantic Conference in Benin. It was also a back-to-back win for Hoops N’ Read who defeated Comets 64-47 at the same Benin centre. It follows their Day One victory over Oluyole Warriors as well. Hoopers shot to a…
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Masai Ujiri’s Giants of Africa hosts first-ever basketball clinic in Gabon
Giants of Africa, the basketball organization founded by Masai Ujiri, President of the Toronto Raptors, is thrilled to announce its inaugural visit to Gabon to host a basketball camp. This exciting initiative aims to engage and empower the youth of Gabon through the sport of basketball. Led by a team of NBA and regional coaches,…
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How Customs Women Basketballers Lost $50,000
Pius Ayinor $50,000 is a good lump of cash anywhere and in the Nigeria of today, it is more than just good money. It is a huge windfall. This is what the Nigeria Customs ladies lost on Tuesday by losing the final match of the Nigerian women’s basketball league. In the reverse, the MFM team…
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FIBA Africa Zone 3 sympathizes with Air Warriors Basketball Club after road accident
The FIBA Africa Zone 3 has announced that it sympathizes with the management, officials and players of Air Warriors Basketball Club of Abuja, after they were involved in a road accident on their way to Lagos. They were on their way for the Final-8 playoff of the 2024 Nigeria Premier Women’s Basketball League. The President…
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Rivers Hoopers win CDS Basketball Championship
Champions of the Nigeria Premier Basketball League, Rivers Hoopers emerged champions of the Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) Independence Day Basketball Championship after their 72-59 win over City Chiefs at the Mo Arena, Abuja on Sunday. It was the second time in five days the Hoopers had beaten the Titled Men at the CDS Championship…
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Mutombo was a giant, says Raptors’ Masai Ujiri
Masai Ujiri delivered a heartfelt speech for Basketball Hall of Famer and NBA global ambassador Dikembe Mutombo, sharing what he meant to basketball, Africa, and those who loved him. For as loved as Dikembe Mutombo was in the NBA, and for as many souls as he’s touched around the game of basketball, there aren’t many…
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Webber gifts Anthony Village youths shoes, shares basketball dreams with them
Pius Ayinor Opeyemi Babalola, the Chief Executive Officer of Webber Hoops and Courts has reemphasized his dream of pushing the game of basketball to every neighbourhood of Nigeria. The structural engineer best known in the sports circle as Webber shared canvas shoes and his goals with the youths as the Anthony Village Ballers 3×3 Face-off…
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New basketball record for Nigeria as J’Tigers and J’Tigress play quarter-finals
Pius Ayinor It is a record time for Nigeria Basketball as the country’s boys and girls teams have qualified for the quarter-finals of the African U18 basketball championship ongoing in South Africa. It is a historic time for Nigeria in the Afrobasket U18 event which serves as the qualification tournament for the FIBA Junior World…
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