Afam4eva: This Angolan team will really be difficult to beat. I hope we don't meet them in the semis.

I think Nigeria will meet Egypt or Cape verde in the semis if they beat Senegal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ZAkaRiENY

AfroBasket - Cape Verde v Central African Republic (highlights)

Sagamite:

Angola is to African Basketball what Brazil is to football or even, to put it more potently, they are the USA of African basketball.

Nigeria can avoid them till the finals, so there is really very little excuse not to take a medal as things stand. Nigeria is the second strongest Basketball team on paper in Africa. Egypt, Ivory Coast and Tunisia follow.

Egypt is looking very weak.

Ivory Coast would have to go through Angola to meet Nigeria.

Tunisia has already been knocked out.

Nigeria needs to beat Senegal and then Egypt/Cape Verde. They really have little excuse not to get to the finals.

Senegal is another force to reckon with in African basketball, they're next after Angola. If my memory serves me well, they knocked our team out of last season's championship.

Wishing them all the best in their match tonight (hope I'm awake to watch it ). I know say one day one day we go defeat that Angolan team. Go tigers go !!!

dominique:

Senegal is another force to reckon with in African basketball, they're next after Angola. If my memory serves me well, they knocked our team out of last season's championship.

Wishing them all the best in their match tonight (hope I'm awake to watch it ). I know say one day one day we go defeat that Angolan team. Go tigers go !!!

Senegal may be a force to be reckoned with but they're not next after Angola. That title belongs to Nigeria. Angola has always been our waterloo.

dominique:

Senegal is another force to reckon with in African basketball, they're next after Angola. If my memory serves me well, they knocked our team out of last season's championship.

Wishing them all the best in their match tonight (hope I'm awake to watch it ). I know say one day one day we go defeat that Angolan team. Go tigers go !!!

i think Nigeria beat them in the last AAG to win gold!.i stand to be corrected.

Live Match: Angola 47 v. Morocco 23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDVJ951m9V0

AfroBasket - Rwanda v Burkina Faso (highlights)

adbaba:
i think Nigeria beat them in the last AAG to win gold!.i stand to be corrected.

Tunisia are d defending champion

akintun:

Tunisia are d defending champion

AAG stands for All African Games.

Tunisia are champions of Afro-Basketball Championships.

The first is like Olympics, the second is like World Cup.

akintun:

Tunisia are d defending champion

Tunisia are champions of Afro basketball for 2011 .while Nig is All African Games champion that same year.

Going by the law of averages, I know that one day D'Tigers will overcome their Angolan hoodoo; just like the Super Eagles overcame their Cameroonian hoodoo in football.

CFCfan: Going by the law of averages, I know that one day D'Tigers will overcome their Angolan hoodoo; just like the Super Eagles overcame their Cameroonian hoodoo in football.

Av u seen d angolans lately? Their players are gettin really old

They just finished their match with morrocco

What time is Nigeria's game against Senegal?

eaglechild: What time is Nigeria's game against Senegal?

9p.m

eaglechild: What time is Nigeria's game against Senegal?

9pm Nigerian time.

dominique:

Senegal is another force to reckon with in African basketball, they're next after Angola. If my memory serves me well, they knocked our team out of last season's championship.

Wishing them all the best in their match tonight (hope I'm awake to watch it ). I know say one day one day we go defeat that Angolan team. Go tigers go !!!

Yes, Senegal is a force to be reckoned with in African Basket ball.They have won this tournament 5 times, but that was a very long time ago.Currently, Nigeria is ahead of them, we are just behind Angola, but like someone said, we have also defeated Angola in the AAG.

CFCfan: Going by the law of averages, I know that one day D'Tigers will overcome their Angolan hoodoo; just like the Super Eagles overcame their Cameroonian hoodoo in football.

Cameroun dey fire our yansh anytime they meet us for ANC final na, and dem don win more ANC than us.

I don't see us overcoming Angola anytime soon. They simply dominate and are that good.

The only way we can overcome them soon is to drastically review our funding and reward programme for basketball so we can attract the best Nigerian-American basketballers to play for Nigeria.

The thing there is that outside the NBA and some few major Europe-based basketball leagues (Spain, Italy, Russia and Greece), many basketball players don't make alot of money.

In America, if you are not in the NBA, the next layer of leagues (minor leagues) hardly pay you over $30K per year.

In Europe, only the top elite players get paid top pay, which are effectively the equivalent of lower paid NBA players ($1.3m). Majority of average and lower paid basketball players in Europe hardly make over $300K. Many less than $100K.

So if Nigeria was to reward players with roughly maximum $50K (if they win tournaments) to play for the national team annually, we would increase and improve the talent of players coming to play for us. That is big money to many basketballers.

We cannot compete with Angola because they have a far better local league than us. The only place we have advantage is the immense number of Nigerians in diaspora, of whom many are in America borning kids. Angola cannot compete with us on that, and many lower leagues in the US are better than Angolan league.

Maybe even with that chicken change and improved successes, we could have attracted some NBA players like: Hakeem Olajuwon, Emeka Okafor, Andre Ighuodala etc.

adbaba:
i think Nigeria beat them in the last AAG to win gold!.i stand to be corrected.

Kk, didn't know that I still believe we can beat them in this tourney. Let's cross our senegalese hurdle first sha.

Sagamite:

Cameroun dey fire our yansh anytime they meet us for ANC final na, and dem don win more ANC than us.

I don't see us overcoming Angola anytime soon. They simply dominate and are that good.

The only way we can overcome them soon is to drastically review our funding and reward programme for basketball so we can attract the best Nigerian-American basketballers to play for Nigeria.

The thing there is that outside the NBA and some few major Europe-based basketball leagues (Spain, Italy, Russia and Greece), many basketball players don't make alot of money.

In America, if you are not in the NBA, the next layer of leagues (minor leagues) hardly pay you over $30K per year.

In Europe, only the top elite players get paid top pay, which are effectively the equivalent of lower paid NBA players ($1.3m). Majority of average and lower paid basketball players in Europe hardly make over $300K. Many less than $100K.

So if Nigeria was to reward players with roughly maximum $50K (if the win tournaments) to play for the national team annually, we would increase and improve the talent of players coming to play for us. That is big money to many basketballers.

We cannot compete with Angola because they have a far better local league than us. The only place we have advantage is the immense number of Nigerians in diaspora, of whom many are in America borning kids. Angola cannot compete with us on that, and many lower leagues in the US are better than Angolan league.

Maybe even with that chicken change and improved successes, we could have attracted some NBA players like: Hakeem Olajuwon, Emeka Okafor, Andre Ighuodala etc.

All but two of d members of our present squad were born abroad.Only Stanley Gumut plays in d Nigerian basketball league.Ayo Bakare has done a gud job in makin nigerians based in d diaspora play 4 us.The Angolan league might be better than ours BUT our present crop of players are better than theirs

king94: All but two of d members of our present squad were born abroad.Only Stanley Gumut plays in d Nigerian basketball league.Ayo Bakare has done a gud job in makin nigerians based in d diaspora play 4 us.The Angolan league might be better than ours BUT our present crop of players are better than theirs

I know.

But I think the present Angolan team can beat them.

Cote d'ivore vs Cameroon about to start
Promises to be interesting

Close one between Egypt and Cape verde.If Nigeria beats Senegal, they might just make it to the final.

Sagamite:

I know.

But I think the present Angolan team can beat them.

I have watched d present Angolan team play and I feel dat dey are just dere.I don't think dey would get 2 d final so I have no fear of dem playin Nigeria.

Krasid: Close one between Egypt and Cape verde.If Nigeria beats Senegal, they might just make it to the final.

Who won?

king94: Who won?

Egypt won 74-73

king94: I have watched d present Angolan team play and I feel dat dey are just dere.I don't think dey would get 2 d final so I have no fear of dem playin Nigeria.

They're just there when compared to the US team but in Africa, they're the king and it's evident in the way they molested Morocco.

CIV 24
CMR 20

Afam4eva:
They're just there when compared to the US team but in Africa, they're the king and it's evident in the way they molested Morocco.

Last tym I checked,dey didn't qualify 4 d London Olympics.Based on deir matches in d preliminary stages,I feel dey ar livin on past glory.I don't feel dey ar gud enof 4 d trophy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETv-8x6O_Ms

AfroBasket - Senegal v Rwanda (highlights)

Naija to win Senegal by 20 points.....go d'tigers. click like if u agree

@Horus stop posting gay videos on this page please, if you can't post the video of Nigeria's match yesterday, put a cork on it!

Morroco and Algeria