The 2023–24 NBA season begins on Tuesday night with about 450 players across 30 teams jostling to help their respective franchises. Like every other sports league in the world, Africans also ply their trade in the NBA, arguably the best basketball league in the world. Afrosport takes a look at five of the biggest African players that are expected to stand out in the new season....
Four-time NBA champion and former Finals MVP Andre Iguodala announced he is retiring from the NBA after a career that spanned across 19 years. The 39-year-old, who is of Nigerian descent, told Andscape on Friday of his decision to call time on his successful career. “It’s just the right time,” Iguodala said. “Time started to get limited for me and I didn’t want to put anything in...
Two-time MVP Stephen Curry and Congolese youngstar Jonathan Kuminga both stole the show as the Golden State Warriors beat the Sacramento Kings 116-115 at Chase Center on Wednesday night. Curry, who was back on the team after sitting out the first game of the double-header against the Kings, scored 30 points in 31 minutes, while Kuminga continued his impressive preseason run with 18 points and six...
Congolese star Jonathan Kuminga continued to show massive improvements ahead of his third year in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with an impressive game-high 28-point display in the Golden State Warriors’ 121-115 overtime win over the Sacramento Kings. The Warriors were without the experienced backcourt duo of Stephen Curry and Chris Paul, but Kuminga dropped his third straight 20-point performance to help the seven-time champions to...
The 2023–24 NBA season, which is the 78th regular season in the league's illustrious history, returns in less than a fortnight, and like the 77 seasons before it, this incoming campaign promises to be a thrilling one. Like every other sports business, players come and go, and the NBA is no different, as a barrage of trades have gone down amongst different franchises as they all...
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