Nigeria has finalised their roster for the first-leg of Group B of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 African Qualifiers in Bamako, Mali, and they made sure to add two prolific scorers.
Ike Diogu, who led Nigeria in scoring at FIBA AfroBasket championships in 2013 and 2017, is set to lead a team that also includes Michael Efevberha, who powered Nigeria’s offense with a team-high 17.4 points per game in the 2009 edition of FIBA Africa’s flagship tournament in Libya.
While this will be Efevberha’s first appearance for Nigeria since 2009, Diogu sparked his country to a runners-up finish at FIBA AfroBasket 2017 last September, and as a result, he was named the tournament’s MVP.
