The Nigeria Basketball Federation will officially sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Total E&P Nigeria Limited on 15 September, 2020 for the sponsorship of the Division 1 and 2 men's basketball leagues.

Nigeria's D'Tigers will begin their qualification campaign for the 2021 Afrobasket tournament on 27 November against Algeria according to a schedule released by FIBA. D'Tigers, runners up at the 2017 tournament will...

Dramatic new footage has emerged that shows for the first time an Alameda County sheriff’s deputy clearly shoving Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri twice in the chest following the Canadian team's decisive game 6 victory in...

Nigerian basketballer Michael Olalekan Ojo has died aged 27 years. According to an official statement by his club, Crvena Zvezda of Serbia, Ojo slumped after training and died shortly afterwards.

D'Tigers swingman Stanley Okoye says Nigeria can get a podium finish at next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. Okoye who was an integral part of Nigeria's 2015 basketball team that won the country's first-ever Afrobasket title in Tunisia believes...

D'Tigers captain Ike Diogu says his journey with the national basketball team is much closer to the end than the beginning with retirement likely next year. In a nostalgia-filled chat with Nigeria Basketball Federation Media, the 2017 Afrobasket Most Valuable...

Nigerian-American and Brooklyn Nets Guard Spencer Dinwiddie has confirmed his intention to acquire a Nigerian passport so as to be eligible to play for the D’Tigers at the 2021 Summer Olympics Games. The Athletic first reported about Dinwiddie’s intentions to...

The NBA has suspended the current season "until further notice" after Utah Jazz star Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus according to multiple reports. The Athletic's Shams Charania reported that Gobert, the reigning NBA Defensive Player of the Year, tested...

LeBron James will refuse to play if the Los Angeles Lakers had to stage games behind closed doors because of the coronavirus outbreak the superstar revealed after becoming the third player to reach 34,000 points in NBA history. The NBA...

The inaugural Basketball Africa League (BAL) season has been indefinitely postponed due to the increasing spread of coronavirus, NBA announced on Tuesday. BAL which is operated as a partnership with FIBA was slated to begin on March 13 in Dakar,...