{"id":98297,"date":"2026-03-20T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/basketball-petro-de-luanda-signs-nigerian-elonu"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:54:46","slug":"basketball-petro-de-luanda-signs-nigerian-elonu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/basketball-petro-de-luanda-signs-nigerian-elonu","title":{"rendered":"Basketball: Petro De Luanda Signs Nigerian Elonu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Angola. <\/strong> <\/span><b>Petro de Luanda&#8217;s senior men&#8217;s basketball team announced the signing of Nigerian center forward, Chinemelu Elonu.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to the axis-via\u0301rio club&#8217;s official page, the 39-year-old player signed a contract valid until the end of this season.<\/p>\n<p>Having entered the NBA draft in 2009, with the Los Angeles Lakers, the 2.08 cm Elonu will reinforce the internal game of the \u201cTricolores\u201d alongside Yanick Moreira, Cle\u0301usio Castro, Jorge Filipe and Aboubakar Gakou.<\/p>\n<p>The player brings experience from Spain, China, Greece, Italy, Puerto Rico and Kuwait, where he has the ability to block and rebound.<\/p>\n<p>This is Petro de Luanda&#8217;s third foreign reinforcement, after Javion Blake (base winger) Peter Jok (post).<\/p>\n<p>Elonu, enters as a reinforcement for the final phase of the National Championship and Kalahari Conference, of the African Basketball League (BAL \u2013 in its acronym in English), which begins on the 27th of this year in Pretoria, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Angola<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Angola. Petro de Luanda&#8217;s senior men&#8217;s basketball team announced the signing of Nigerian center forward, Chinemelu Elonu. According to the axis-via\u0301rio club&#8217;s official page, the 39-year-old player signed a contract valid until the end of this season. Having entered the NBA draft in 2009, with the Los Angeles Lakers, the 2.08 cm Elonu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":98296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[329],"class_list":["post-98297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-angola"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Basketball: Petro De Luanda Signs Nigerian Elonu - Angola<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-article-header-tag&quot;&gt; Africa-Press - Angola. 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