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Lagos Legends are 2025 Nigeria Basketball champions, BAL reps
Lagos Legends put every game, all basics on the floor and dethroned Rivers Hoopers as Nigeria Basketball champions on their home court on Sund. November 23. They showed their readiness to be champions during the Final-8 playoffs and proved it beyond all reasonable doubts by beating the Hoopers again in the last game of the…
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Rivers Hoopers, Lagos Legends battle for trophy as NBBF Final-4 rounds off in Port Harcourt
The pursuit of the Nigeria Premier Basketball League championship/Basketball Africa League ticket will round off in Port Harcourt on Sunday, with the last tip-off for the NPBL Final Four taking place. Defending champions Rivers Hoopers and Lagos Legend will play the last march of the Playoffs and this match will determine the champions of the…
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Nigeria Premier Basketball League Final-4 tips off in Port Harcourt
The Nigeria Premier Basketball League Final Eight produced fireworks, and now, the stakes are higher, the pressure is mounting, the passion is endless, and the talent is overflowing as the final four take centre stage. With defending champions Rivers Hoopers, Gboko City Chiefs, Lagos Legends, and Nigeria Customs all vying for the coveted championship and,…
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NPBL Final-4: Odaudu excited by pressure to retain national title
Barely two days to the tip off of the 2025 Nigeria Premier Basketball League (NPBL) season finale, Rivers Hoopers Head Coach Ogoh Odaudu is relishing the challenge of chasing a third straight league title. Rivers Hoopers, who won back-to-back league titles for the third time in the club’s history by claiming the 2023 and 2024…
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Premier Basketball: Hoopers complete double over Kwara Falcons
Rivers Hoopers survived a late scare by a resilient Kwara Falcons side to record a second straight victory over the 2022 champions, as they won 88-86 to end Group Phase play in the ongoing 2025 Nigeria Basketball Premier League (NBPL). Hoopers slowly seized control of what started off as a keen contest when they entered…
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AfroBasket: D’Tigers feast on champions Tunisia 87-66, await Lions of Cameroon
Nigeria put in a masterful display to go 2-0 in Group B of the 2025 AfroBasket men’s game when they obliterated reigning champions Tunisia 87-66 on Friday afternoon at the Pavilhao Multusos de Luanda. The next for Nigeria is against rivals Cameroon on Sunday evening. NBA Josh Okogie lit the arena up and helped Nigeria’s…
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Does Masai Ujiri want to stay in the NBA? Ex-Raptors exec may have loftier goals
By Jeff Zillgitt One of the best front-office executives in the NBA just hit the open market. Masai Ujiri and the Toronto Raptors have parted ways. Ujiri had the title of vice chairman and team president and was the Raptors’ alternate governor. Not only did he have a significant impact on roster construction that led…
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NBA Finals: Oklahoma City Thunder cap incredible season by beating Indiana Pacers to title
League MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the scoring in front of a raucous home crowd at Oklahoma City’s Paycom Center with 29 points and 12 assists. The Pacers suffered a huge blow early on when they lost star point guard Tyrese Haliburton midway through the first quarter with an Achilles injury and saw their title hopes…
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Record entries for FAZ3 Academies Basketball Tourney
A high number of entries have been received for the inaugural FIBA Africa Zone 3 (FAZ3) Academies Basketball Tournament, set to take place in Lagos from July 4 to 8, 2025. This event, the first of its kind in the Zone, has generated significant excitement across the Zone with teams from Ghana and Benin Republic…
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“Too many things went wrong,” Rivers Hoopers Coach Odaudu confesses after BAL exit
Rivers Hoopers head coach Ogoh Odaudu has explained the team’s disappointing performance and subsequent elimination from the Basketball League Africa Season 5. The former D’Tigers guard said, “too many things went wrong,” while assessing his side’s quarter-final performance against Armée Patriotique Rwandaise (APR) on Monday in Pretoria. They lost their quarter-final match 104-73 to APR,…
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