Tomorrow, the highlight shifts to Angola as Males’s AfroBasket 2025 kicks off and Nigeria’s D’Tigers are strolling in with the swagger of a workforce chasing historical past.
Solely every week in the past, the nation celebrated because the D’Tigress lifted their fifth consecutive girls’s AfroBasket crown. Now, the lads’s facet needs their very own piece of that glory. They’ve made it clear: the mission is to carry the cup residence.
The D’Tigers have been getting ready for this event. In Abuja, the D’Tigers confronted Guinea in a warm-up conflict on August 7 and got here away with a 78–73 win. That is sending a message that they’re prepared for the battles forward.
On the coronary heart of this 12 months’s Afrobasketball is Stan Okoye, the one lively participant left from Nigeria’s unforgettable 2015 AfroBasket title run. Ten years later, Okoye returns not simply as a participant, however as co-captain, bringing management and the burden of expertise.
The workforce has additionally been bolstered by Olympians Caleb Agada and Ike Nwamu, who’re already settled into Luanda, soaking within the environment and eyeing their first group-stage check. With powerhouses like Tunisia and Cameroon within the combine, there might be no simple video games, however that’s precisely how the D’Tigers prefer it.
Nigeria has tasted AfroBasket glory earlier than. The query now’s whether or not this group can roar as loudly because the queens who simply conquered the continent.
