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Rwanda’s National Under 16 Girls Basketball Team is in line to battle for a place in the FIBA 2020 Under 17 Girls World Cup according to Head Coach Charles Mushumba. This comes in light in of the team’s imminent play in the African Under 16 competition which tips off tonight …

The newly built Kigali Arena in Rwanda has been officially opened after months of construction and just in time for the start of this year’s FIBA Africa Under 16 Girls Championship. The biannual competition runs from July 28 to July 3 with eight nations competing; all games are to be …

The offseason is mostly wrapped up and NBA teams know what their rosters are going to look like next season. On Thursday, the Caesars Sportsbook released their updated win totals for the 2019-20 NBA season and the Milwaukee Bucks came out on top with 57 projected wins. In addition, the …

Zion Williamson will enter his rookie NBA season with the New Orleans Pelicans as the second-heaviest player in the league at 285 pounds, behind Dallas Mavericks big man Boban Marjanovic, who has eight inches on Williamson, but the 6-foot-7 rookie may be creeping up on Marjanovic’s height. Pundits, including Charles …

The onetime NBA sensation is now just another free agent in search of a team, and it’s really getting him down. Lin got emotional while discussing the matter with reporters during an event this weekend in Taiwan. “In English there’s a saying and it says once you hit rock bottom, …

Democratic Republic of Congo has emerged winners of the first ever FIBA AfroCan Basketball Tournament after beating Kenya 82-61 in the final game played on Saturday, July 27 in Bamako, Mali. The newly introduced tournament was created to give extra opportunities to African players plying their trade on the continent …

There is a lot at stake for teams playing in the final round of games in the first half of the 2019 Tema Community Basketball League. Two fixtures are to be honoured tonight to conclude the first round with home side Tema Community 4 taking on Spintex Knights. That fixture …

The first half of the 2019 Tema Community Basketball League is set to end later tonight after two remaining games are honoured at the Tema Community 4 Court. Home side Community 4 plays Spintex Knights after Akatsi Rifles take on Teshie Rangers with the fixture to tip off at 17:30 …

The Los Angeles Lakers parted ways with director of player personnel Ryan West on Saturday, according to Bill Oram of The Athletic. Ryan West is the son of Hall of Famer and Los Angeles Clippers adviser Jerry West. The younger West joined the Lakers front office in 2009 after previously …

LAS VEGAS — It was a WNBA All-Star Game in which the one of the smallest players, Indiana’s 5-foot-7 guard Erica Wheeler, stole the show with seven 3-pointers, 25 points and an emotional MVP award. One of the biggest, Phoenix’s 6-9 Brittney Griner, dunked three times. And the host Las …