Nigeria\u2019s senior national male basketball team, D\u2019Tigers, will face Russia, Argentina and South Korea at the 2019 FIBA World Cup, following the draw conducted on Saturday at Shenzhen in China.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 Draw was presented before a crowd of 8,000 spectators at the Shenzhen Bay Arena.<\/p>\n
The draw sets out the path for the 32 participating teams in their journey to be crowned world champions in FIBA\u2019s flagship competition on September 15.<\/p>\n
D\u2019Tigers have been drawn in Group B and will play their group games in Wuhan, with familiar foes Argentina looking to be their biggest opponents.<\/p>\n
In Nigeria\u2019s first appearance at the global stage, the South Americans beat them 68-51 in their Group D game at the 1998 edition of the 16-team FIBA World Championship in Greece.<\/p>\n
D\u2019Tigers lost all three group matches but finally finished 13th in the competition which is now known as the FIBA World Cup, after winning their two classification matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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