Once again, Angola showed its dominance in African basketball. For the fourth consecutive year, 1º de Agosto had no competition and ended up claiming the African Champions Cup title in Benin. In the final played today, the Angolan champions thumped Condor 41 to 73. (Discuss the African Champions Cup 2010 in our African Leagues, Players, [...]

Behind Angolan superstar Olimpio Cipriano‘s 30 points, Angola continued Germany‘s disappointing tournament play by sending the Germans to their third loss in four games. With the loss, it means that Germany will not advance to the second round. (Discuss Angola’s defeat of Germany in our World Championships forum) The entire game was closely contested. After [...]

º de Agosto 88 Petro Luanda 74 (41-33 at halftime (ao intervalo)) Carlos Almeida 24 pts, Armando Costa 18 pts, Joaquim Gomes “Kikas” 15 pts + 16 rebs | Mario Porter 18 pts + 9 rebs, Eduardo Mingas 12 pts + 6 rebs 1º de Agosto claimed the African trophy for the second time in [...]

Tripoli, Libya – Angola took home the 2009  Africa Nations Championship by defeating the Ivory Coast 82-72 to capture their sixth straight Afrobasket gold medal, and their tenth in the last eleven tournaments. (Discuss the 2009 Afrobasket) Though that is certainly an impressive track record, Angola had their hands full with  small western coast country.  [...]

The prelimiary stage of the 2009 African Championships have finished (discuss).  Three nations Angola, Nigeria, and Senegal have moved onto the next round undefeated with three wins each.   Each team will play today in the quarterfinals. Nigeria was led by 24-year old Michael Efevberha’s 23 points, good for second in the field.  Efevberha also had [...]

Title: Afrobasket 2009 Location: Tripoli, Libya Official Site: http://libya2009.fiba.com Information: The 2009 Africa Nations Basketball Championships, or Afrobasket, starts in less than a week. The 25th Afrobasket (discuss) is being held August 5-15 in Tripoli, Libya. Teams participating include Libya (host), Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Tunisia, Morocco, Mali, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Central African Republic, Congo, [...]

With a few days left before Olympic basketball begins, Interbasket is previewing the twelve national teams participating in the tournament.  We reviewed the six teams in Group A on Tuesday, and we’ll be reviewing Group B today. (Click here for Olympic Basketball Group A Preview). With the United States, Spain and Greece all in Group [...]