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SIRTee15:
I counted 19 NBA players of nigerian descent. Can u send a link to the total 29 players.

Ok



1. Chuma Okeke
2. Giannis Antetokunpo
3. Thannis Antetokunpo
4. David Nwaba
5. Victor Oladipo
6. Deandre Chidike Ayton
7. Bam Adebayo
8. Jahlil Okafor
9. KZ Okpala
10. Andre Igoudala
11. Gabe Nnamdi Vincent
12. Precious Achiuwa
13. Jordan Nwora
14. Udoka Azubuike
15. Chimezie Metu
16. Zeke Nnaji
17. Isaac Okoro
18. Onyeka Okongwu
19. Desmond Edidem Bane
20. Josh Okogie
21. Jeff Akhigbe Green
22 Miye Oni
23. OG Anunoby
24. Al Farouq-Aminu
25. Wes Iwundu
26. Daniel Oturu
27. Kostas Antetokunpo
28. Semi Ojeleye
29. Ike Anigbogu

EraseTheDot:
That witch of a mother killed his father to inherit his wealth.


-erase the dot

The witch killed a poor man who couldn't fend for his children, instead he sent them to sell wristwatch on the streets of Greece to make ends meet? Are you even ok? Do you even know the Antetokunpos?

EraseTheDot:
Nwora's father was the interim coach before the new coach recently came on board for the Olympics. Nwora's father is a major influence on the team and only a foolish dolt would deny it. He is the assistant coach, in case you're too daft to know.

In your stupid reasoning, the table tennis team was not selected based on tribalism but on merit. Those were the best hands we have got in Nigeria. Don't believe me, believe the World & Africa's table tennis rankings.
But the basketball team were selected by coach Nwora based on his preference for dressing room cleaners.


-erase the dot

Oh, so that "experienced" table tennis team that won no game or anything reasonable and lost to inferior sides is the best Nigeria has, but the young basketball team that shocked US and Argentina in a pre-olympic ehibition, but narrowly loss to Australia, Germany, and Italy is not the best Nigeria has?

Your nepotism is out of this world. If I start mentioning the Yoruba athletes that flopped at this Olympics, you will hate me. But I won't, unless you give me a reason to! Big Nonsense!

EraseTheDot:
33 points & losing all group games, is there a medal for it?. Do you want God to extend your sufferings for saying foolish things?
Giannis is Yoruba first before ibo, his mum is just a sperm bank. Receive sense.


-erase the dot

Sorry, Giannis is not as frustrated as you. He doesn't despise any of his parents. He loves both. If you loved both of your parents and respected them, you wouldn't have ended up as frustrated as you are today. Go to hell!

EraseTheDot:
I won't argue basketball with you, it's obvious you don't know shít. You deserve to suffer for foolishly over hyping Jordan nwora,a mere dressing room cleaner.
Jordan Nwora is ibo, his father is ibo and that counts the most, anyone who says otherwise is foolish. Also, anyone trying to bring Giannis' mum at par with his father's tribe will suffer for such foolish statement.

Nwora's father destroyed the Dtigers team with his ibo agenda.

-erase the dot

Was it Nwora's father that chose the Olympic squad? See this frustrated thing that doesn't even have a TV, let alone know how the basketball game works?
Who destroyed Nigeria's Table Tennis Team comprised of, Captain Aruna Quadri(Yoruba), Funke Oshonaike (Yoruba), Offiong Edem(Efik-Ibibio), and Olajide Omotayo(Yoruba), that were all beaten without winning a game at this same Olympics? Also an Igbo shey?
Nwora's father did a good job by leaving D'Tigers for an American. If he was the coach, by now, people like you would have cried more. I wonder why the American coach even made the Basketball team more Igbocentric than before

EraseTheDot:
No Yoruba called it Oduduwa team. It was ibos that were calling the basketball teams as biafran teams, saying all bullshit on the thread.
The thread made FP and I can go bump it right now.

-erase the dot

Stop replying me. I was talking to a human upward, a human who is not suffering from hunger or psychosis, not one whose hunger dragged him into doing foolish things.

EraseTheDot:
I won't argue basketball with you, it's obvious you don't know shít. You deserve to suffer for foolishly over hyping Jordan nwora,a mere dressing room cleaner.
Jordan Nwora is ibo, his father is ibo and that counts the most, anyone who says otherwise is foolish. Also, anyone trying to bring Giannis' mum at par with his father's tribe will suffer for such foolish statement.

Nwora's father destroyed the Dtigers team with his ibo agenda.

-erase the dot

Carry your hunger and poverty elsewhere, the same Nwora's son(the benchwarmer) has the record of scoring the most points for Nigeria at the Olympics, Is 33 points againts Germany a joke, I'm I even sure you watched any of the basketball matches before coming here to cry? And cry as much as you want, Giannis Sina Ugochukwu Antetokunpo is as much Yoruba as Igbo. I don't have any time to spare on someone suffering from frustration to the extent of creating a stupid NL account.

HEAVEN4444:
i will have to look into that and if it is true i will report the matter to lai mohammed

Ok

HEAVEN4444:
thats interesting. that the son of the coach is also playing . this is biafran nepotism. nekwa. inukwa

Can I also say that the Nigerian Table Tennis Team is Oduduwa nepotism

HEAVEN4444:
thats interesting. that the son of the coach is also playing . this is biafran nepotism. nekwa. inukwa

Idiot

EraseTheDot:
Jordan Nwora is a bench warmer and dressing room cleaner. You should suffer for comparing him with Bam & Victor.
Moreover, you claim Nwora as ibo but no one argues with you, even though his mum isn't ibo.

-erase the dot

Hey, I didn't talk to you. Your name says how foolish you are. Imagine waking up to create an account called "Erase the dot." See the effect of hunger and poverty embellished with joblessness! Jordan Nwora is a bench warmer at an NBA champ team, not anyhow team. And I will say it again, Bam Adebayo is a flop! I only respect Victor Oladipo! And if any American says Jordan Nwora is also American because of his white mum, I will agree with him or her. After all, even Deandre Ayton of Phoenix Sun whose dad is Igbo, represents his mum's country, Bahamas. I'm not tribalistic and nepostic like most of you jobless lots on nairaland.

HEAVEN4444:
bros the childrens last name is adetokunbo. put some respek on that oduduwa name. why you like to dey do rough play na ?

Guy shut up. LOL!. Go and pee, before you pee on yourself!

HEAVEN4444:
oh you didnt know the name of the coach was nwora ? lmaooo go and do some research please. this was the coach before the american took over. his name is nwora.

We know him! He is the father of Milwaukee Bucks star, Jordan Nwora. Moreover, during his time, the basketball team was somewhat balanced in ethnicity. We had lot of Yorubas, Niger Deltans and Igbos. The American coach changed it coincidentally while trying to induct solely NBA players who pledged their allegiance to Nigeria. 16 out of Nigeria's 29 NBA players are Igbo, and almost half pledged their allegiance to Nigeria, that is why you see the Basketball team like that. Nothing like nepotism or tribalism!

HEAVEN4444:
igbo names ? are you crazy ? he is not married to an igbo lady. the igbo aspect of him has terminated when he married an american lady. but the children will be called adetokunbo

Sorry bro, not everyone despise their mother and their identity. He will give his children Igbo middle-names or even first-names, just like one of my Yoruba friends here in PH whose mum is Igbo did. Now one of his child answers "Amarachukwu Adeoye." lMAO
Moreover, his children are to be called "Antetokunpo." not "Adetokunbo." His name has been hellenized forever. That's what happens when you flee from a bad Country, you can do anything to gain another man's country citizenship.

Boudiccao:
On nairaland, the top musicians in Nigeria are Yorubas. And Yorubas claim that they they are Kings of Nigerian entertainment and without Yoruba, Nigerian songs will be bland.
Nobody gives a flying crap about this because guess what? People don't care.

But when some Igbos do the same thing and you go berserk and throw your toys out of the pram.

It just shows you Yorubas and Nigerians are tribalistic. It is okay when you indulge in chest beating but not cool with it when Igbos celebrate their own because why should Igbos dare do the same thing.

Drag Igbos from today till tomorrow, the crux of the matter is that you all resent Igbos and are obsessed with everything Igbos do.

I'm not Yoruba. The fact is that I've never heard a Yoruba say "without Yorubas, Nigeria will be nothing!" They can say "Without Yoruba music, Nigerian music will be dead." But generalizing it is an insult to other ethnicities. Accept the fact that you Igbos brag a lot. It's the fact!

HEAVEN4444:
please stop trying to change igbo trdition. when sina gives birth, all his children will have the surname adetokunbo. put some respek on that yoruba boy name

When he gives birth, they will also have Igbo names, so go and donate your tears.

HEAVEN4444:
8 nba bench warmers. yeye dey smell

Oh Jahlil Okafor is a bench warmer? Josh Okogie bench warmer? Even Miye Oni is a bench warmer?

You're a clown!

HEAVEN4444:
brother why are you trying to change igbo trdition ? in igbo tradition the boy belongs to the father. the boy carries the fmily name. the woman is nothing. the boys name is sina adetokunbo and he carried the bucks to the championship. put some respek on that yoruba boy name.
and victor oladipo and bam adebayo are superstars. stop all this rough play na bros.

Though I'm not Igbo. Igbo is a heterogeneous ethnicity. In the South-easternmost part(Abia and Ebonyi) of Yoruba land where Antetokunpos mother is from. Matrineal lienage is considered, so go and chop sand. Antetokunpo is as much Yoruba as Igbo. When he visits Nigeria, he will visit both the South West and South East

HEAVEN4444:
this is the best nigerian squad and they lost all 3 games ? stop all this rough play ooo bros . even my junior brothers would have won the game against germany

Oga, this is the best Nigerian team. We should appreciate the fact that we have 8 NBA players in our team. They are a total of 29 NBA players eligible to play for Nigeria, and more than half who happen to be the best half have pledged their allegiance to other countries. From the Antetokunpos allegiance to Greece, to Ayton's allegiance to Bahamas, to Anunoby,Oladipo, Adebayo, and Okoro's allegiance to USA.

MaziAlaye:
Wtf bragged about Igbo selection? Mention abeg.

Are you asking me? Go back to Nigeria-USA Pre Olympic exhibition thread. Go and see people say things like "Without Igbos, Nigeria is useless." WTF! As long as I'm concerned, every Southern tribe is instrumental to Nigeria's achievements in sports, and development. No one is useless! When you say things like this, then you expect people to like you?
How will you feel if someone says "Without Yorubas, Nigeria is useless?"

HEAVEN4444:
jordan nwora has an nba title as a non contribuuting bench warmer of the milwaukee bucks. the man who led that team to glory is one yoruba man named sina adetokunbo
and are you serious when you say playing for the USA team does not make you good ? thats the dream team

Stop making noise bro. The man who led that team to glory is "Giannis Sina Ugo "Ugochukwu" Antetokunpo" a man born of Yoruba father and an Igbo mother. Moreover, Jordan Nwora has the record of scoring the most points for Nigeria at the Olympics in his young career! And I'll say it again, Bam Adebayo is overrated. I will agree with you on Victor Oladipo, I like him!

HEAVEN4444:
thats because coach nwora wanted only biafrans on his team . so they went to other teams

thats the coach before the american took over

Mumu. I can see you're catching some fun

HEAVEN4444:
are you serious ? bam adebayo is go good that he is playing for the USA team, and victor oladipo is an nba all star. he is always in the all star games

That you're playing for USA does not make you good. Both Bam Adebayo and Victor Oladipo who pledged their allegiance to another country, do not have what our own Jordan Nwora has. He has an NBA title to his name!

MaziAlaye:
This is like saying yorubas that chants "omoluabis" are casting other ethnic groups?? When did praising your ethnic group become a hatred towards other ethnic group?
Your Igbophobia is never gonna help you dumbfucker!

Bro, tbh, that's you people problem! You brag a lot! Though I don't support anybody castigating Igbos due to Igbos immense contribution in Nigerian sports from Ifeajuna to Ajunwa to Papilo, etc. Why should you even be mentioning ethnicities? The Nigerian table tennis team dominated by Yorubas crashed out of this same Olympics, yet did you see anybody insult Yorubas? No! Because they didn't brag beforehand. Bragging is foolishness!

HEAVEN4444:
bam adebayo and victor oladipo and giannis adetokunbo

See clown! Which Bam Adebayo and Victor Oladipo are you talking about? Only Giannis Antetokunpo is worthy to be mentioned, and he is also Igbo as well as Yorubas

Limassol:
I read somewhere 13 of the players are igbo, how true is it?

That's true! I will say it's a coincidence not anything most people are thinking

Newton85:
I'm not happy about their elimination at all. This is a shame. But imagine this basketball team was dominated by another ethnic group! Imagine what the Igbos would be saying now if the team had like 90% Yorubas then end up putting out these utterly mediocre performances?

Tbh, I know all Nigerian ethnic groups well to infer this. If it was Yoruba that dominated this team or any Southern tribe, Igbos wouldn't have spoken any ill. But if it was the Hausa-Fulani, then it will be war!

lanocfoods:
At least these ones choose Nigeria, we have Yoruba basket players in the NBA who choose allegiance to other countries. This bigotry will sink us further

There are about 6 Yorubas in the NBA, only four have pledged their allegiance to another country. Miye Oni pledged his to Nigeria, Semi Ojeleye is yet to, I think

anigbajumo:
Now we are out...

That's wat happened when u put Nepotism ahead of competency. we are just accusing Buhari of tribalism but we Nigerian will do worse if we are fortunate to be president. Imagine that Igbo coach pack all his brother for Nigeria basketball team... Rubbish, abeg if u quote me to say trash I go curse you..

Since blessing is out, I hope Ajuwon and Haruna Quadri will bring atleast bronze come home.

Firts of all, the coach is not a Nigerian talkless of Igbo. Secondly, the players there are there because they are the only Nigerian NBA players to have pledged allegiance to Nigeria. Thirdly, both Ajuwon and Haruna Quadri are out of contention to win a medal. About three Yoruba athletes have lost this Olympics including Funke Oshonaike but I didn't see anyone castigating anybody. Only a foolish and tribalistic person will do that.

Osanoghodua1:
The coach that did this selection should be fired, why pick only men from your ethic group? When there are other sound players? Investigation should be made if he was bribed.

You are an olodo. It's obvious you don't watch basketball. When did an African-American coach become Igbo? Foolishness of the highest order!

Julianaa:
Fact is the reason most of this players chose to represent us is because USA didn't pick them

Like I said earlier, experience matters

These tigress players barely play in the usa women's league

Shame on Nigeria sport/basketball association

The fact is that most of them don't play in the USA Women's League(WNBA). The only person in D'Tigress playing in the WNBA is Erica Ogwumike. Nigerians in the WNBA(USA Women's League) such as Kristine Anigwe, Arike Ogunbowale, Nneka Ogwumike, Liz Cambage, Michaela Onyenwere, and Chinenye Ogwumike are either barred to play for Nigeria or aren't even thinking of playing for Nigeria. It's our boys that have a lot of players who play in the USA League, most of the D'Tigresses play in funny leagues like Mozambique League, Chinese League, etc, so I don't really blame them.

haslaw:
We are not going anywhere.

We allowed ethnicity and bigotry to blind our eyes to the real talents. A lot of very good talents were dropped just because of their Muslim names and/states of origin.

You are a clown. The team is chosen based on players in well structured basketball leagues. In the worlds' largest and most sophisticated basketball league- the NBA, there are 29 Nigerians, and only 1 is a Muslim. Fortunately, that one is included in the Nigerian Basketball Team, so what are you saying?

This is the full list of Nigerians in the NBA including those playing for other countries, and their religion, now count the Muslims and see if they are substantial:


1. Chuma Okeke (Christian)
2. Giannis Antetokunpo(Christian)
3. Thannis Antetokunpo(Christian)
4. David Nwaba(Christian)
5. Victor Oladipo(Christian)
6. Deandre Chidike Ayton(Christian)
7. Bam Adebayo(Christian)
8. Jahlil Okafor(Christian)
9. KZ Okpala(Christian)
10.Andre Igoudala(Christian)
11. Gabe Nnamdi Vincent(Christian)
12. Precious Achiuwa(Christian)
13. Jordan Nwora(Christian)
14. Udoka Azubuike(Christian)
15. Chimezie Metu(Christian)
16. Zeke Nnaji(Christian)
17. Isaac Okoro(Christian)
18. Onyeka Okongwu(Christian)
19. Desmond Edidem Bane(Christian)
20. Josh Okogie(Christian)
21. Jeff Akhigbe Green(Christian)
22. Miye Oni(Christian)
23. OG Anunoby(Christian)
24. Al Farouq-Aminu(Muslim)
25. Wes Iwundu(Christian)
26. Daniel Oturu(Christian)
27. Kostas Antetokunpo(Christian)
28. Semi Ojeleye(Christian)
29. Ike Anigbogu(Christian)


So after seeing this list, if you are the coach and you want the best for your team, will you leave all these even-more talented Christians for only one Muslim? Is it only the Muslim that will play a match?