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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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Rwanda’s APR dumps Rivers Hoopers out of BAL with 104-73 bashing
Six-time Nigerian Basketball League champions, Rivers Hoopers, have been beaten out of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). They suffered their biggest defeat in the history of the competition – a 31-point loss – to Rwanda’s APR on Monday. The quarter-final encounter ended at 104-73. After both teams struggled to score any points during the opening…
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Rivers Hoopers to face US Monastir in BAL Season 5 Seeding Game
The 2024 Basketball Africa League (BAL) bronze medalists, Rivers Hoopers, will face Union Sportive Monastirienne in the placement match on Saturday, June 7, ahead of the quarter-finals in Pretoria, South Africa. Going by the Playoffs Team Ranking, the six-time Nigerian League Champions who sealed consecutive Playoffs appearances by finishing second in the Kalahari Conference with…
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BAL: We plan to do better than last year – Rivers Hoopers coach
Rivers Hoopers Head Coach Ogoh Odaudu has said that his team has what it takes to improve on last year’s performance at the Basketball Africa League (BAL) Season 5. Rivers Hoopers will play their first game at BAL this year when they take on Stade Malien in the Kalahari Conference opener in Rabat, Morocco on…
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