FIBA非洲籃球錦標賽資格賽 02/25 19:00 - 佛得角 v 尼日利亞 L 78-62
FIBA非洲籃球錦標賽資格賽 02/24 13:00 - 烏幹達 v 尼日利亞 L 72-62
FIBA非洲籃球錦標賽資格賽 02/24 09:00 - 烏幹達 v 尼日利亞 L 72-62
FIBA非洲籃球錦標賽資格賽 02/23 19:00 - 尼日利亞 v 利比亞 L 82-89
奧運會預選賽 08/17 17:00 3 烏幹達 v 尼日利亞 - Cancelled
奧運會預選賽 08/15 18:10 2 [2] 尼日利亞 v 馬里 [3] L 68-77
奧運會預選賽 08/14 17:00 1 塞內加爾 v 尼日利亞 L 93-87
FIBA AfroCan 07/15 14:30 32 [2] 尼日利亞 v 安哥拉 [1] L 69-72
FIBA AfroCan 07/14 09:00 48 [1] 肯尼亞 v 尼日利亞 [2] L 61-59
FIBA AfroCan 07/13 12:00 3 [1] 剛果民主共和國 v 尼日利亞 [2] L 74-72
FIBA AfroCan 07/12 12:00 14 [2] 尼日利亞 v 加蓬 [3] W 71-55
FIBA AfroCan 07/10 17:00 - [2] 尼日利亞 v 安哥拉 [1] L 48-57
FIBA AfroCan 07/09 14:30 - [2] 馬里 v 尼日利亞 [3] W 56-62
FIBA AfroCan 07/02 19:00 - 科特迪瓦 v 尼日利亞 L 74-65
FIBA AfroCan 07/01 16:00 - 貝寧 v 尼日利亞 W 51-78
FIBA AfroCan 06/30 16:00 - 尼日利亞 v 幾內亞 L 62-65
FIBA世界盃資格賽 02/26 17:00 6 尼日利亞 v 安哥拉 L 59-65
FIBA世界盃資格賽 02/25 13:00 5 幾內亞 v 尼日利亞 W 59-62
FIBA世界盃資格賽 02/24 13:00 4 尼日利亞 v 科特迪瓦 W 72-63
FIBA世界盃資格賽 08/28 13:00 3 安哥拉 v 尼日利亞 L 70-67
FIBA世界盃資格賽 08/27 16:00 2 尼日利亞 v 幾內亞 W 89-70
FIBA世界盃資格賽 08/26 19:00 1 科特迪瓦 v 尼日利亞 L 78-66
FIBA世界盃資格賽 07/03 13:00 6 尼日利亞 v 烏幹達 W 91-72
FIBA世界盃資格賽 07/02 10:00 5 馬里 v 尼日利亞 W DBFA
FIBA世界盃資格賽 07/01 10:00 4 尼日利亞 v 佛得角 L 70-79
FIBA世界盃資格賽 11/28 19:00 3 烏幹達 v 尼日利亞 W 69-95
FIBA世界盃資格賽 11/27 13:00 2 尼日利亞 v 馬里 W DBFA
FIBA世界盃資格賽 11/26 10:00 1 佛得角 v 尼日利亞 L 79-71
非洲籃球錦標賽 08/31 13:00 7 [2] 尼日利亞 v 烏幹達 [3] L 68-80
非洲籃球錦標賽 08/29 13:00 3 [2] 尼日利亞 v 科特迪瓦 [1] L 68-77

The Nigeria men's national basketball team (Igbo: ndị otu egwuregwu basketbọl nke Naịjirịa) represents Nigeria in international basketball, and it is governed by the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF).

In March 2021, the global governing body FIBA ranked Nigeria as Africa's top men's basketball nation. After the 2016 Olympic Men's Basketball Tournament in Rio, Nigeria was ranked 16th in the FIBA World Rankings, making them the top climber in FIBA rankings from 2015.

Nigeria is the only African nation to beat the United States. Nigeria is also the first African team to qualify for the Summer Olympics through the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament. This was accomplished at the 2012 Event when Nigeria beat the world elite teams of Lithuania and Greece. In 2015, Nigeria won its first crown as basketball champion of Africa.

History

The history of basketball in Nigeria goes as far back as the late 1950s when Walid Zabadne served as the first basketball coach to train Nigerians. At the time, Nigeria's only basketball court was situated in the Syrian Club in Lagos. Walid Zabadne continued teaching young Nigerians to become basketballers and when Nigeria's basketball federation was organized, he took them to several basketball competitions across Africa. In view of his role as the pioneer of basketball in Nigeria, Walid Zabadne has been deemed "father of Nigerian basketball’’. Also worthy of note is that Zabadne was later made the president of the Nigerian Basketball Federation.

Nigeria's national basketball team joined FIBA in 1964. Since the mid-1990s, the team has enjoyed unprecedented success, due to an increasing amount of talents from Nigeria as well as an orchestrated recruitment of American college and professional players of Nigerian descent. The D'Tigers (as the team is nicknamed) qualified for the 2006 FIBA World Championship, marking only the second time in the country's history that they qualified to the FIBA World Cup. Team Nigeria usually plays its home games at the 3,000-capacity Indoor Sports Hall in Lagos.

2006 FIBA World Championship

Nigeria took part in the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan. They were drawn in Group A with Argentina, France, Lebanon, Serbia and Montenegro, and Venezuela. They surprisingly finished third in Group A, then were narrowly defeated by Germany in the Round of 16. Overall they finished 14th, as they achieved the same record as the defending world champion Serbia and Montenegro.

2012 Summer Olympics

Nigeria competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. They finished the group play with a 1–4 record, with their lone victory coming against Tunisia in their Olympics debut. The team's roster, assembled by coach Ayodele Bakare, primarily comprised former college basketball players.

2016 Summer Olympics

Nigeria qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics tournament as champions of AfroBasket 2015. They finished at the bottom of Group B, winning one game against Croatia and losing four games.[] The team entered the 2016 games with several injured players and little financial support from the Nigerian government.

2020 Summer Olympics

As the top African team at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, Nigeria qualified for their third consecutive Olympics berth for the 2020 Summer Olympics. The team, which included seven NBA players and was led by Golden State Warriors assistant coach Mike Brown, was called up for training in the United States in June 2021. D'Tigers defeated the United States 90–87 during an exhibition game in Las Vegas on 10 July. The victory, described as an "upset", was the first for an African team against the United States.

尼日利亞國家男子籃球隊代表尼日利亞參加國際籃球比賽,由尼日利亞籃球聯合會管理。尼日利亞是非洲的籃球強國,曾多次獲得非洲籃球錦標賽冠軍。在世界籃壇,尼日利亞也取得了一定的成績,曾多次參加世界籃球錦標賽和奧運會。尼日利亞隊的球員以身體素質出色、速度快、彈跳好著稱。