Nigeria’s D’Tigers are in China to participate in a China Tour which started this weekend and will end on October 20th. The tour consists of games to be played across different cities in China.
The D’Tigers had in 2019, won the Peak international invitational tournament in China as part of preparations for the FIBA world cup.
That team had the likes foreign based stars like Jordan Nwora, Ike Diogwu who lead D’Tigress to defeat the likes of Poland and Montenegro to emerge winners of the event.
This time around with no Paris 2024 Olympics participation in sight the roaster is made up of bright home based invited players alongside a couple of players playing in other African countries invited by the NBBF.
Gombe Bulls, Afuwape Michael Okiki
Kwara Falcons, Victor Ezeh
Nigelec Club, Timothy Kwaor
Abijan basketball club, Ibe Agu
Nigeria Customs, Michael Daramola
Chinedu Chimbou
Gombe Bulls, Wisdom Anyaoha
Nnoruka Francis Junior
Chris Obekpa
Kingsley Onyekachi
Garba Chingka
Coaches: Abdulrahman Mohammed, Baba Jibril, Usman Yakubu