Nigeria men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, suffered an 82-77 defeat to Russia on Saturday in their opening game of the FIBA World Cup taking place in China.
, suffered an 82-77 defeat to Russia on Saturday in their opening game of the FIBA World Cup taking place in China.
The Russians survived a tight battle with Nigeria, coming back from eight points down in the fourth quarter for a crucial 82-77 victory. Sergey Bazarevich’s national team jumped to an 11-point lead in the first quarter. Kulagin provided the answers for the first-half lead.However, Nigeria turned the game around. After knotting the contest at 58 in the end of the third quarter, the African national team got a 68-60 lead midway through the fourth, but could not hold on.
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