Basketball
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NBA may become the first professional league to widely use the new crown vaccine
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has expanded discussions with team management, player and agent representatives to discuss the formulation of a…
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Otunba Babatunde Babalola Basketball championship begins in Lagos
Dapo Sotuminu It is a weekend of basketball actions at the Ilupeju Park as fourteen youth teams (10-men and 4-women)…
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Masai Ujiri pricks global conscience with launch of humanity
The co-founder of Giants of Africa/President of the Toronto Raptors Masai Ujiri has launched an inspirational movement that should prick…
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NBA Vice President Amadou Gallo On the Growth of Basketball in Africa
The launch of the Basketball Africa League (BAL), a continental showpiece that is Africa’s first ever professional league was expected…
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Nigerians petition FIBA over NBBF leadership dispute
A group of Nigerian Basketball Stakeholders known as Basketball With Integrity has petitioned the sport’s world governing body, FIBA on…
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D’Tigers Unbeaten As 2021 Fiba Afrobasket Qualifier Ends in Rwanda
Nigeria’s D’Tigers concluded their first phase of the 2021 FIBA Afrobasket championship qualifiers unbeaten with another emphatic 91-68 points win…
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D’Tigers Beat Rwanda to Qualify for 2021 Fiba Afrobasket
Just like the game against South Sudan, Nigeria lost only the third quarter.D’Tigers continued their good form and confirmed their…
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NBA players, Pope Francis meet to talk social justice
In an unprecedented meeting, a delegation of five NBA players and several officials from the National Basketball Players Association are…
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Power Forward Huddle develops Nigeria’s youth potential in sport and leadership
Power Forward, a youth development initiative launched in 2013 by the ExxonMobil Foundation, the NBA and Africare, uses basketball to…
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Eight Nigerian players make NBA Draft 2020
Eight players of Nigerian descent were selected in the NBA Draft 2020, which was held virtually on Wednesday (November 18),…
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