Nigeria’s representatives at the inaugural Basketball Africa League, Rivers Hoopers have signed American Kaylon Deshaun Tappin for the tournament which tips off in March. Tappin was a junior college standout at Arkansas State-Mid South in West Memphis, Arkadelphia (AR) in...

Kobe Bryant's widow Vanessa filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Monday against the operator of the helicopter that crashed on 26 January, killing the NBA icon and eight others. The suit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on the...

Basketball legends past and present united with thousands of Kobe Bryant fans as Bryant's wife Vanessa paid a moving tribute to the transcendent NBA star and daughter Gianna at a memorial service in Los Angeles. Former Los Angeles Lakers shooting...

D'Tigers and D'Tigress have been set a target of finishing in the medal places at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by Nigerian Basketball Federation president Musa Kida. Nigeria will have two national teams in the basketball event at an Olympics for...

New Orleans Pelicans centre Jahlil Obika Okafor has reportedly agreed to represent Nigeria at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo a twitter account affiliated to the national team announced on Monday. The 24-year-old 6'10 NBA player who is American by birth...

Rivers Hoopers head coach Ogoh Odaudu has expressed confidence in his team’s chances of making it to the single-elimination playoffs of the inaugural Basketball Africa League (BAL). Hoopers were drawn alongside Patriots, Ferroviario de Maputo, US Monastir, Forces Armees et...

NBBF President Cup Champions Rivers Hoopers will face Mozambican League champions Ferroviario de Maputo in their opening game of the Basketball Africa League on 21 March in Monastir, Tunisia. The game marks the first of back-to-back games in Monastir for...

Nigeria’s representative at the inaugural edition of the Basketball Africa League, Rivers Hoopers have been drawn in the Nile Conference alongside Zamalek of Egypt, Union Sportive Monastirienne of Tunisia, Mozambique’s Ferroviario de Maputo, Forces Armes et Police Basketball (FAP)...

Kawhi Leonard stole the show on the floor and Hall of Famer Magic Johnson took centre stage in an emotional pre-game ceremony on a night the NBA paid tribute to the late Kobe Bryant. Chicago's favourite son Anthony Davis sank...

Nigeria's women's national basketball team, D’Tigress, jumped three places to 14th in the new rankings released by world basketball governing body FIBA on Thursday. The 2019 Afrobasket champions pooled 366.6 points to...