Nigeria Basketball almost collapsed in 2022. Now D'Tigress are one of the best stories of the Olympics

After a Federation disruption cost them a chance at the 2022 World Cup, the Nigerian women's national basketball team is in Paris and ready to shock the world.

In 2022, the Nigerian basketball federation was mired in what could best be described as a bureaucratic civil war. Two different factions had emerged within the NBBF, one by the incumbent President Musa Kida and the other by Kida’s predecessor, Tijani Umar. While the sides prepared for battle, the men’s and women’s national teams had to sit, wait and wo…