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Players
Nnamdi Vincent PG 191 cm 91 kg 25 yo
Obi Emegano SG 190 cm 98 kg 28 yo
Josh Okogie SG 193 cm 96 kg 23 yo
Caleb Agada SG 193 cm 95 kg 28 yo
Miye Oni SG 198 cm 94 kg 24 yo
Ike Nwamu SG, PG 196 cm 96 kg 28 yo
Jordan Nwora SF 203 cm 102 kg 23 yo
Precious Achiuwa SF 203 cm 102 kg 22 yo
Ekpe Udoh PF 208 cm 111 kg 34 yo
KZ Okpala PF, SF 203 cm 97 kg 22 yo
Chimezie Metu PF, C 208 cm 102 kg 24 yo
Jahlil Okafor C 211 cm 125 kg 26 yo
Mike Brown Head Coach
Statistics
GM 2P% 3P% FT% REB AS ST TO BS RBS PF RF PTS EFF GM
Olympics 3 47.1 39.8 56.9 35.0 16.3 11.0 20.3 4.7 - 23.3 - 76.7 57.0 »
News
Chimezie Metu blasts Nigerian government, Olympic Committee
2021-08-02 Nigerian international Chimezie Metu has attributed the misfortune of the African nation's athletes at the Tokyo Olympic Games to the poor handling by the Ministry of ...
Mike Brown: "Kind of the same old song"
2021-07-31 After failing to earn a single victory in the Olympic basketball tournament, Nigeria's head coach Mike Brown pointed at the same issues that have been haunting his team. ...
Dominant fourth quarter sends Nigeria home, Italy into Olympic quarters (1)
2021-07-31 In a closely contested game, Italy (2-1) defeated Nigeria (0-3) 80-71 (29-17, 11-22, 16-24, 24-8) with a strong fourth-quarter performance. Nigeria scored first, but ...
Mike Brown: 'It's going to be tough to beat anybody when you don't defend'
2021-07-28 After his team lost its second straight game of the Olympics, Nigeria's head coach Mike Brown talked about his squad's lack of defensive effort. "Our main identity is we ...
Germany defeat Nigeria despite 33 from Nwora
2021-07-28 The second round of the Tokyo Olympic Basketball Tournament kicked off with a Group B matchup between Germany (1-1) and Nigeria (0-2). After a great fourth quarter, ...
Patty Mills leads Australia to a win over Nigeria
2021-07-25 Two teams that beat the USA this summer - Nigeria and Australia - have kicked off their Olympic runs. Australia (1-0) started the Olympics hot by beating Nigeria (0-1) ...
Watching what they built: Ike Diogu witness his Nigerian dream coming true (3)
2021-07-24 "Watching what we built." This selfie of Al-Farouq Aminu went viral when Nigerian D'Tigers managed to beat Team USA in the preparation stage for the Olympic games. Two of ...
Games
News
Chimezie Metu blasts Nigerian government, Olympic Committee
2021-08-02 Nigerian international Chimezie Metu has attributed the misfortune of the African nation's athletes at the Tokyo Olympic Games to the poor handling by the Ministry of ...
Mike Brown: "Kind of the same old song"
2021-07-31 After failing to earn a single victory in the Olympic basketball tournament, Nigeria's head coach Mike Brown pointed at the same issues that have been haunting his team. ...
Dominant fourth quarter sends Nigeria home, Italy into Olympic quarters (1)
2021-07-31 In a closely contested game, Italy (2-1) defeated Nigeria (0-3) 80-71 (29-17, 11-22, 16-24, 24-8) with a strong fourth-quarter performance. Nigeria scored first, but ...
Mike Brown: 'It's going to be tough to beat anybody when you don't defend'
2021-07-28 After his team lost its second straight game of the Olympics, Nigeria's head coach Mike Brown talked about his squad's lack of defensive effort. "Our main identity is we ...
Germany defeat Nigeria despite 33 from Nwora
2021-07-28 The second round of the Tokyo Olympic Basketball Tournament kicked off with a Group B matchup between Germany (1-1) and Nigeria (0-2). After a great fourth quarter, ...
Patty Mills leads Australia to a win over Nigeria
2021-07-25 Two teams that beat the USA this summer - Nigeria and Australia - have kicked off their Olympic runs. Australia (1-0) started the Olympics hot by beating Nigeria (0-1) ...
Watching what they built: Ike Diogu witness his Nigerian dream coming true (3)
2021-07-24 "Watching what we built." This selfie of Al-Farouq Aminu went viral when Nigerian D'Tigers managed to beat Team USA in the preparation stage for the Olympic games. Two of ...
Olympic basketball power rankings (pre-tournament edition)
2021-07-23 In 2016 in Brazil, the winners' podium included the USA, Serbia, and Spain. Five years later, some of those teams aren't even in the Olympics. Add pandemic-related ...
Olympic Games: Group B preview
2021-07-22 The Group B of the Olympic Basketball Tournament is expected to be one of the most interesting and well-balanced in the entire tournament. With Australia, Italy, Nigeria ...
Nigeria announce final Olympic roster
2021-07-19 The Nigerian National Team has finalized its roster for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. The list includes eight NBA players - Jahlil Okafor (Detroit Pistons), Gabe Vincent, ...
Australia demolish Nigeria, get their third victory in a row in exhibition games
2021-07-14 In their third exhibition game, Australia made 18 3-pointers and left Nigeria no chance. For the African team, this was their first defeat in friendly matches. Brian ...
Nigeria keep their hot streak alive with win over Argentina
2021-07-13 After defeating the USA in their first friendly match, Nigeria has not slowed down. Mike Brown's team beat Argentina 94-71 (17-19, 26-14, 31-22, 20-16) in Las Vegas. ...
Byron Scott: 'Who could challenge Team USA? Yugoslavia, Russia and China' (2)
2021-07-12 Team USA’s weekend loss to Nigeria was the biggest upset in the history of USA basketball, according to Byron Scott. The two-time NBA All-Star shooting guard ...
Popovich after an unexpected loss: “In a way, I’m kinda glad it happened”
2021-07-11 Team USA began their preparation for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games, not the way they wanted but the head coach of the team, Gregg Popovich, remained positive after the ...
Incredible upset in Las Vegas: Nigeria stuns Team USA in Olympic exhibition (1)
2021-07-11 Nigeria pulled off one of the greatest upsets in international basketball history Saturday night by stunning Team USA in an Olympic exhibition game in Las Vegas. The ...
Nigeria’s Olympics preliminary roster cut to 15, eight NBA players headline the list
2021-07-06 Nigeria continues the preparation for the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo and announced a preliminary 15-man squad list. The list includes eight NBA players - Jahlil ...
CSKA center will not join Nigeria in Olympics due to 'aggressive Covid symtoms' (2)
2021-07-01 Michael Eric announced on social media that he will not help Nigeria in the Tokyo Olympics due to a "traumatic experience" with Covid. The PBC CSKA Moscow ...
NBA, EuroLeague players among invitees to Nigeria NT
2021-06-24 Participants of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Nigeria national team announced a list of 49 players invited to team's training camp. 12 players are from the NBA teams. ...
Players
Seasons:   20/21 | 18/19 | 16/17 | 15/16 | 11/12 | 05/06


Olympic Games

NO GM MIN 2P M/A 3P M/A FT M/A REB AS ST TO BS PF RF PTS EFF
Nnamdi Vincent 3 24:42 1/4
(25%) 		4/19
(21.1%) 		4/8
(50%) 		2
1.7/0.3 		1.7 1.3 0.7 0 3.7 0 6 -0.7
Obi Emegano 3 20:04 2/9
(22.2%) 		3/6
(50%) 		1/4
(25%) 		1
0.3/0.7 		3.3 1 2 0 3 0 4.7 0.7
Josh Okogie 3 15:31 3/7
(42.9%) 		0/2
(0%) 		7/7
(100%) 		1
1/0 		2 1.3 2.3 0.3 1 0 4.3 3.7
Caleb Agada 3 8:01 1/3
(33.3%) 		2/4
(50%) 		0/2
(0%) 		1.7
1.7/0 		1 0.3 1.3 1 1.3 0 2.7 2
Miye Oni 3 21:48 1/5
(20%) 		6/13
(46.2%) 		0/0 2
1.7/0.3 		1.7 0 1.7 0.3 2 0 6.7 3.3
Ike Nwamu 3 9:25 0/1
(0%) 		1/7
(14.3%) 		0/0 0.7
0.7/0 		1 0.3 1.3 0 1.3 0 1 -2
Jordan Nwora 3 29:18 12/24
(50%) 		12/25
(48%) 		3/6
(50%) 		4.7
4.3/0.3 		0.7 1.7 2.3 0 2.3 0 21 14
Precious Achiuwa 3 18:26 10/20
(50%) 		0/0 4/9
(44.4%) 		4.7
3.3/1.3 		1 1.3 3.3 1.3 2.7 0 8 5.3
Ekpe Udoh 2 6:05 0/2
(0%) 		0/0 2/4
(50%) 		1
1/0 		0.5 0 0.5 1 1 0 1 0
KZ Okpala 3 14:04 4/6
(66.7%) 		0/1
(0%) 		3/6
(50%) 		3.3
3/0.3 		1 1.7 0.7 0 2.7 0 3.7 4.3
Chimezie Metu 3 19:32 2/7
(28.6%) 		7/11
(63.6%) 		2/2
(100%) 		6.7
5.3/1.3 		2.3 2 1.3 1 1 0 9 15.7
Jahlil Okafor 3 15:02 12/14
(85.7%) 		0/0 3/3
(100%) 		4.7
2.7/2 		0.3 0 3 0 1.7 0 9 8.7
Statistics


2020/2021

GM 2P M/A 3P M/A FT M/A REB AS ST TO BS RBS PF RF PTS
Olympics 3 47.1%
48/102 		39.8%
35/88 		56.9%
29/51 		35
27.7/7.3 		16.3 11 20.3 4.7 - 23.3 - 76.7


2018/2019

GM 2P M/A 3P M/A FT M/A REB AS ST TO BS RBS PF RF PTS
FIBA WC 5 51.4%
114/222 		37.5%
45/120 		74.2%
72/97 		42.2
31.4/10.8 		20.6 11.2 15.4 6 - 18.6 - 87


2016/2017

GM 2P M/A 3P M/A FT M/A REB AS ST TO BS RBS PF RF PTS


2015/2016

GM 2P M/A 3P M/A FT M/A REB AS ST TO BS RBS PF RF PTS
Olympics 5 49.2%
87/177 		36.7%
51/139 		75.6%
65/86 		35.6
25.6/10 		17 4.8 16.2 5 - 21.8 - 78.4


2011/2012

GM 2P M/A 3P M/A FT M/A REB AS ST TO BS RBS PF RF PTS
Olympics 5 39.5%
90/228 		27.3%
27/99 		69.4%
77/111 		34.8
20.4/14.4 		10.6 5.2 16.2 1.8 - 18 20 67.6


2005/2006

GM 2P M/A 3P M/A FT M/A REB AS ST TO BS RBS PF RF PTS
FIBA WC 6 44.5%
133/299 		29.5%
33/112 		59.3%
83/140 		34.8
21.7/13.2 		10 9 11.7 2.3 - 20.3 - 74.7
Records
Seasons:   All | 20/21 | 18/19 | 16/17 | 15/16 | 11/12 | 05/06

Olympic Games

Team records - 2020/2021 Season
Efficiency 77 Germany 2021-7-28
Points 92 Germany 2021-7-28
Rebounds 39 Italy 2021-7-31
Assists 22 Germany 2021-7-28
Steals 14 Australia 2021-7-25
Blocks 7 Australia 2021-7-25
2-pointers made 17 Germany 2021-7-28
3-pointers made 17 Germany 2021-7-28
Free throws made 12 Australia 2021-7-25
Personal records - 2020/2021 Season
Efficiency 32 Chimezie Metu Italy 2021-7-31
Points 33 Jordan Nwora Germany 2021-7-28
Rebounds 10 Chimezie Metu Italy 2021-7-31
Assists 6 Obi Emegano Germany 2021-7-28
Steals 5 KZ Okpala Germany 2021-7-28
Blocks 3 Caleb Agada Australia 2021-7-25
2-pointers made 7 Jahlil Okafor Italy 2021-7-31
3-pointers made 7 Jordan Nwora Germany 2021-7-28
Free throws made 5 Josh Okogie Australia 2021-7-25
Average recors - all seasons
Efficiency 2015-2016 59.6
Points 2015-2016 78.4
Rebounds 2020-2021 35
Assists 2020-2021 16.3
Steals 2020-2021 11
Blocks 2020-2021 4.7
2-pointers made 2011-2012 18
3-pointers made 2020-2021 11.7
Free throws made 2011-2012 15.4
Average recors - all seasons
Efficiency Ike Diogu
2011/2012 		16
Points Jordan Nwora
2020/2021 		21
Rebounds Ike Diogu
2011/2012 		9
Assists Miye Oni
2020/2021 		1.7
Steals KZ Okpala
2020/2021 		1.7
Blocks Ekene Ibekwe
2015/2016 		2.4
2-pointers made Ike Diogu
2011/2012 		4.8
3-pointers made Jordan Nwora
2020/2021 		4
Free throws made Al-Farouq Aminu
2011/2012 		3.2
Schedule
Seasons:   2021 | 2019 | 2017 | 2016 | 2012 | 2006


Olympic Games
2021-07-25 Australia Nigeria 84-67   stat »
2021-07-28 Nigeria Germany 92-99   stat »
2021-07-31 Italy Nigeria 80-71   stat »