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Sarah Ogoke and Michelle Alozie INSPIRE on and off the Court and Field of play 🙌.
Juggling a medical/science career while proudly representing your country is never easy, yet they serve as shining examples for young girls aspiring to excel in multiple domains💫.
#AfroBallers
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NBA is back baby!!!
Join our
@TwitterSpaces
#NBA75
series, focusing on the European and
#AfroBallers
with award-winning sports broadcaster,
@MsBennyBonsu
and guests.
We'll discuss Week 1 games, the 75th Anniversary team and predictions for the season.
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Being drafted meant the world to Diop Khalifa. 🙏🏾
From Senegal to the NBA!
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Jonathan Kuminga is the second Congolese born player to win an NBA title! 🙌🏾
D.R CONGO'S VERY OWN 💎
@JonathanKuming6
🇨🇩
#AfroBallers
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@ESPNFC
This Morocco player is El Yamiq
@ESPNFC
and that's why we created
@afroballers
- to cover African players with a lot more precision.
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Congratulations
@ZSCOfficial
on being crowned the first ever champions of the first Basketball Africa League season. What a historic moment!
#theBAL
#AfroBallers
#Zamalek
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8 PLAYERS WITH DIRECT TIES TO AFRICA WERE DRAFTED TONIGHT ⭐
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What a feat by Ime Udoka who took the Celtics to the NBA Finals as a first-year head coach 👏🏾🇳🇬
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Kuminga has been authorised to play for D.R Congo for the upcoming World Cup Qualifiers taking place from July 1st to 3rd in Egypt.
@JonathanKuming6
🇨🇩
#AfroBallers
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Masai Ujiri and Giants of Africa commit to build 100 basketball courts in Africa. 🙌🏾
The aim is to create opportunities for youth in Africa through sports, and harnessing the power of the next generation to propel the continent forward.
@GiantsOfAfrica
@Raptors
#AfroBallers
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Baba has a "special" touch for this game. 💯
In Yopougon 🇨🇮 via
@lysd_project
#AfroBallers
#CoteDivoire
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Christian Koloko's Father blessed his son on draft day.
This coronation ceremony is from Babouantou culture in Cameroon, it means "Go & be great son. You are favored by the ancestors"
@kolokojunior1
🇨🇲 via
@Gilleskamako
#AfroBallers
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FIRST AFRICAN TEAM TO WIN AT THE 2023 WORLD CUP‼️ 🇦🇴 🗣🌍
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Ime Udoka took his team to the conference finals in his first season. 👏🏾
Ime Udoka 🇳🇬🇺🇲
#AfroBallers
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Chance The Rapper and Vic Mensa are launching the Black Star Line Festival today, which will take place in the historic Black Star Square in Accra.
The fest aims to be a bridge between Black people, artists of the Diaspora with the continent 🌍
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Jonathan Kuminga has reunited with his Parents & Brothers for the first since he left D.R. Congo, 6 years ago. 🙌🏾
@JonathanKuming6
🇨🇩
#AfroBallers
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Most Premier League titles won by an African player:
🇩🇿 Riyad Mahrez (4) 🏆🏆🏆🏆
🇨🇮 Didier Drogba (4) 🏆🏆🏆🏆
@Mahrez22
🇩🇿
@DidierDrogba
🇨🇮
#AfroBallers
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NIGERIA QUALIFY FOR THE WORLD CUP 🥳
Congratulations D'Tigress! 🇳🇬
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Your 2021 Dikembe Mutombo BAL DPOY: Anas Mahmoud 🏆
@anas14mahmoud
@zamalekhalls
#theBAL
#AfroBallers
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Cape Verde has become the smallest nation to ever qualify for the FIBA Basketball World Cup. 🤩🇨🇻
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Jordan Nwora dropped career-high 34 points and 14 rebounds on 14-22 shooting.
ELITE PERFORMANCE. 💯
@jordannwora
🇳🇬🇺🇲
#AfroBallers
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Al-Hilal & Al-Nassr Stars ended with 9-goal thriller against PSG! The Parisians beat the Al Hilal & Al Nassr Stars 5-4
✅ Messi Goal
✅ Ronaldo Goals (2)
✅ Mbappe Goal + Assist
✅ Neymar Assist
WHAT A SHOW FOR THE FANS 💯🤤
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Hamidou Diallo hosted a camp in Guinea & the people LOVED IT! 🔥
@hamidoudiallo
🇬🇳 Via
@fgbb_officiel
#AfroBallers
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Serie A top scorers:
🇳🇬 Victor Osimhen—14 goals
🇳🇬 Ademola Lookman—12 goals
No African player has ever won the award before ⏳
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19-year-old Karim Adeyemi has scored 2 goals in the Champions League, last night.
He has won 4 penalties in 2 games.😤
Rising AfroBaller❗
@karim_adeyemi
🇳🇬🇷🇴🇩🇪
#AfroBallers
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AND STILLLL the UFC Middleweight champ: Israel Adesanya 🏆 🇳🇬
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The first Nigerian head coach in NBA History!
Congratulations Ime! ✊🏾
Ime Udoka 🇳🇬
#AfroBallers
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Callum Hudson Odoi is willing to play for the Black Stars if Chris Hughton is given the job per
@Muftawu_Nabila
.
Back in 2021, he declared that he was open to the idea of playing for Ghana.
Will he? 👀
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AL AHLY ARE THE 2023 BASKETBALL AFRICA LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 🇪🇬🗣
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5 players with direct ties to Africa ties have been crowned as NBA champions.
▪︎Giannis Adesina Ugochukwu Antetokounmpo. 🇳🇬
▪︎Athanasios Rotimi "Thanasis" Antetokounmpo. 🇳🇬
▪︎Jordan Ifeanyi Nwora. 🇳🇬
▪︎Mamadi Diakite. 🇬🇳
▪︎Axel Toupane. 🇸🇳
HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE. 📝
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19-year-old Jonathan Kuminga is the youngest African player and 2nd youngest player ever to win an NBA championship‼🏆
ONLY A ROOKIE 👏🏾
@jonathan_kuminga
🇨🇩
#AfroBallers
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May 2022: 19-year-old Eduardo Camavinga wins his first Champions League with his new team; Real Madrid.
June 2022: 19 year-old Jonathan Kuminga wins his first NBA Championship with Golden State, in his rookie year.
Two rising Congolese stars in the making! ⭐🇨🇩
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TURKISH CHAMPIONS 🏆
CONGRATS ELIZABETH, AMANDA & SATOU! 🙌🏾
@satou_sabally
🇬🇲🇩🇪
@E_Williams_1
🇳🇬🇺🇲
@AmandaZahuiB
🇨🇮🇸🇪
#AfroBallers
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With the 8th pick, Laeticia has become the first ever player of Ghanaian descent to be drafted in the WNBA.
CONGRATS ⭐
@_theblackqueen_
🇨🇮🇬🇭🇨🇦
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Usman Garuba's family & friends are all tuned in! 👀
Peep the 🇳🇬 flag!
@destusman1
🇳🇬🇪🇸
#AfroBallers
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Coach Joe is the one who sat in Joel's living room and convinced his parents to let him play basketball & make the trip to the US.
He is now a Technical Director at NBA Academy Africa & a FIBA expert who volunteers to support Giants of Africa camps.
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK!
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➖️ World Cup 🪙
➖️ Olympic Games Gold 🪙
➖️ Copa America 🪙
➖️ 11 league titles ✔🇪🇸🇫🇷
➖️ 4 Champions League trophies✔
➖️ 7 ballon d'or awards✔
& More!
Is Messi the Greatest of All time⁉️
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At 23, Kylian Mbappé is now Paris Saint-Germain's all time top scorer in The Champions League 🔥
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Declan Rice owns the Streets with this song😂😂.
West Ham Kwacked Fiorentina and pushed them to the Curb😤.
📽️
@Odumodublvck_
@bbcnews
#AfroBallers
#declanrice
#afrobeats
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Nordin Amrabat is so proud of his little brother, Sofyan…🇲🇦🥺
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Coach Rena Wakama BECOMES the FIRST Female Coach since the start of the tournament in 1966, to take her team 🇳🇬 to the Afrobasket Women's Finals.
She is also the ONLY Female Head Coach at this year's tournament 🙌.
#RenaWakama
#AfroBallers
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JAMES WAS REALLY SINGING "SHAYOOO" 🎶
AfroBeats is now GLOBAL 🙌🏾🌍
Song - "Last Last - Burna Boy"
@burnaboy
@jharden13
via itsnotok/IG
#AfroBallers
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2nd in the Ballon d'or ranking, the entire continent is proud, Sadio Mané. 🇸🇳💚
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Job’s finished.
The Milwaukee Bucks are the 2021 NBA Champions 🏆
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Mamadi also won the NBA G-league title this year.
Same season, Two trophies. 🏆🏆
@_mdiakite
🇬🇳
#AfroBallers
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Appreciation post for Benrahma. He scored BANGERS in the Europa tonight. 🚀
No wonder West Ham is killin' with drip like this. 💧
@Benrahma2
🇩🇿
#AfroBallers
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Ngolo Kante now has the World Cup, the EPL, UCL and Europa all under his belt.
HE HAS WON IT ALL! 💯
@nglkante
🇲🇱🇫🇷
#AfroBallers
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Jordan Nwora’s resume at 23:
➖ NBA Champion.
➖ Olympian.
➖ Ranks 5th among all Olympians in scoring (21 PPG on 48% 3pt) and 1st in with 4.0 made threes per game.
➖ First Father-Son coach-player duo to represent Nigeria 🇳🇬 at the highest level.
HAPPY JORDAN YEAR! 🥳
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Flo and Jonathan are NATIONAL CHAMPS! 👑
Straight out of Kinshasa 🇨🇩 and Douala 🇨🇲.
Congrats!
@Flo_T3
🇨🇩 Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua 🇨🇲
#AfroBallers
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Zeke, Maya & the Nnaji foundation are opening a basketball facility in Nigeria!
Maya has just started college at Arizona & Zeke is getting ready for his third year in the league.
RESPECT ✊🏾
@maya_nnaji
@ZekeNnaji_Hoopz
@NnajiFamily
#AfroBallers
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18-year old-Christine Mboma is KILLING IT! 🔥
Women’s 200m - heat 1: 22.11
Women’s 200m - Semifinals: 21.97(!)
She’s broken the under 20 women’s 200m world record TWICE in 8 HOURS!
IMPRESSIVE! 💯
@christine_mboma
🇳🇦
#AfroBallers
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IT'S FINALLY OFFICIAL‼️
In March, Kamaru Usman will challenge Edwards to reclaim his UFC title.
In April, Israel Adesanya will challenge Pereira to also reclaim his UFC title.
BRING IT ON 😤🇳🇬🏆
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The Basketball Africa League now has a SIGNATURE SHOE with Jordan Brand & Nike‼
Only 100 pairs available. 👀
@thebal
| 📷
@kam6ras
|
@jumpman23
@nike
|
#AfroBallers
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The ending to the Mali vs. Tunisia game was VERY STRANGE. 😳
85' Referee blows final whistle
87' Restarts the game & hands a red card to Touré.
89' Blows for final whistle again.
The whole world is watching AFCON, referee. 🙄💔😭
#AFCON2021
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Cameroon native Dulcy Fankam Mendjiadeu got drafted by the Seattle Storm 🙌🏾🔥
@dulcyfankam
🇨🇲
#AfroBallers
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Two NBA teams may face off on African soil. 🌍
Who do you want to see on the continent? And where? 👀
via
@espn
#AfroBallers
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The Patriots end up at the fourth place of the inaugural Basketball Africa League season! 👏
#theBAL
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SOUTH SUDAN 🇸🇸 FINISHES THE FIBA WORLD CUP WITH A 3-2 RECORD AND RANKS FIRST 🥇 IN AFRICA.
OLYMPICS CALLING 🙌.
#AfroBallers
#fibawc
#paris2024
🇫🇷
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Burna Boy has become the first African & Nigerian artist to headline and sell out a show in the legendary Madison Square Garden!
THAT'S HIS HOMECOURT NOW 🔥
@burnaboy
🇳🇬
#AfroBallers
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Izzy dapped up Kamaru & Njoku after winning.
NAIJA BOYZZZ 🇳🇬
@stylebender
@USMAN84kg
@David_Njoku80
#AfroBallers
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Deion Sander's Colorado College Football program have added TWO DYNAMIC AFROBALLERS to join the team🔥
Chidozie Nwankwo and Samuel "The Last Edge Bender" Okunlola are coming in to bolster the Defensive Line of the team.
SHOWTIME 🙌
@ChidozieNwankw
🇳🇬🇲🇦🇺🇸
@Samokunlola87
🇳🇬🇺🇸
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The Toronto Raptors are reportedly set to sign free agent Alex Antetokounmpo to an Exhibit 10 contract.
It would be a camp deal with option with G-league team Raptors 905.
More to come!
A.Antetokounmpo 🇳🇬🇬🇷
@raptors
#AfroBallers
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HAPPY AFRICA DAY!
On this day, more than others, we celebrate African excellence and icons who continue to make the continent proud ✊🏾
Drop a flag and let us know where you represent 🌍
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Mo Salah is now the second highest African goalscorer in Champions League history with 31 goals. 🌍
1. Didier Drogba (44)
2. Mohamed Salah (31)
3. Samuel Eto'o (30)
THAT'S ELITE. 🔥
@MoSalah
🇪🇬
#AfroBallers
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Naomi Osaka lit up the Olympic cauldron and Rui Hachimura was the bearer of the Japanese flag. 🔥
Iconic moments for the Afro-Japanese community! 👊🏾👊🏻
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Back in January, Derrick Rose announced that he had worked with Adidas to create a collection for thr Senegal's national basketball team.
IT'S OFFICIALLY OUT 🤩
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Burna Boy, Tems & Rema will perform on Sunday at the 2023 NBA All-Star Game ‼️🌍
The trio will become the first ever Africans to perform at the NBA All-Star weekend ✊🏾
@NBANigeria
@NBA_Africa
#NBANaijaAllStar23
#NBA
#NBAAllStar
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Nigeria has defeated the World's "Fourth" Best Basketball Team, Argentina 94-71.
That's a 23 (!!!) - point blowout win!
Naija, let's go! 🇳🇬✊🏾
@nbbfonline
@FriendsOfNB
@NigeriaBasket
#AfroBallers
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Congratulations US Monastir on finishing second at the first ever Basketball Africa League season.
HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE!
@thebal
#theBAL
#AfroBallers
#UsMonastir
@usmonastir_org
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Anas Mahmoud, who was the
@thebal
Defensive Player of the Year, will feature for the Toronto Raptors in the NBA Summer League.
He previously played with Donovan Mitchell at Louisville, and featured in the NBA Summer league in 2018 for the Grizzlies.
@anas14mahmoud
🇪🇬
#theBAL
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Michaela wins Rookie Of The Month for May!
■ Scored the first WNBA bucket of the season.
■ Dropped 29 in her 7th game.
■ Only rookie averaging double figures (12.1 PPG | 3.3 RPG | 44.3 FG%).
CONGRATS! 👏🏾
@monyenwere_
🇳🇬🇺🇲
@nyliberty
#AfroBallers
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Jonathan Kuminga will be playing for DR Congo in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers, sources tell AfroBallers.
@JonathanKuming6
🇨🇩
#AfroBallers
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NIGERIA DEFEATS TEAM USA!! 🔥
First African team to do it! 💪🏾
@nbbfonline
@FriendsOfNB
@NigeriaBasket
#AfroBallers
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