The 2017/18 NBA regular season tipsoff on Tuesday, 17 October 2017 and ends 11 April 2018 with the playoffs scheduled to begin 14 April 2018. The season gets underway when 2017 runners-up Cleveland Cavaliers host a game against the Boston...

The National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) have reached an agreement to change the format of the annual NBA All-Star Game. For the first time ever, the All-Star game won’t be a match-up between the...

The logo for FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2019 has been unveiled. The unveiling was done on Thursday and it coincided with the International Women's Day (IWD). Latvia and the immediate past champions Serbia are the hosts for the 2019 edition. https://twitter.com/BballNaija/status/971694513692569600

Team Nigeria's (men and women) wheelchair basketball teams will feature in the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) Africa World Championship Qualifiers 2017 scheduled for South Africa next month. The 7-day qualifiers, to be hosted by WheelChair Basketball South Africa, will...

Chicago Bulls power forward Noah Vonleh has stated that his biggest support is from Liberia. Vonleh, 22, who is from a Liberian lineage, was speaking about his Basketball career, Liberia etc. He also revealed that he would like to have a...

The national women's basketball team, D'Tigress, have received the cash rewards promised by the Federal Government (FG). D'Tigress had earlier defeated Senegal 65-48 during the 2017 Women's Afrobasket final in August to secure a 3rd title win prompting Federal Government's...

The Federal Government has announced cash rewards for athletes who win medals for Nigeria at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games scheduled to start on Wednesday. The announcement was made by the Sports Minister Solomon Dalung while disclosing the financial...

The leadership tussle that has engulfed the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has no end in sight after the meeting initiated by the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) to put an end to the crisis ended in deadlock. The leadership tussle started...

The Nigerian Basketball Federation (NBBF) has unveiled an 18-man provisional D'Tigers list ahead of the China 2019 FIBA World Cup African Qualifiers scheduled for later this month. Some of the names on the list include Ike Diogu, Mike Ojo, Ike...

The 2017-18 NBA regular season will tipoff on 17 October 2017. The tipoff is earlier than usual to enable a reduction in the number of back-to-back games teams are scheduled to play. One major issue which is sweeping across major...