Written by: Colin Udoh, ESPN
Nigeria’s basketball teams are relishing the prospect of pitting their respective mettles against the benchmark Team[s] USA at the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo.
With the rescheduled 2020 Games now just five months away, the draws for the basketball event — albeit incomplete for the men — have got Nigeria’s basketball fraternity even more confident of accomplishing big things in Japan.
Nigeria’s women are ranked 14 and find themselves in a deadly group that includes the top- ranked USA, number 5-ranked France, and Japan at number 10.
The men will face off against number 3-ranked Australia, though they await the last two teams from the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Croatia and Belgrade.
Click here to ready the full article on ESPN: Nigeria coach Mike Brown relishing prospect of facing boss Steve Kerr’s USA at Olympics
