On February 2, Beijing time, according to US media reports, the Nigerian men's basketball team was very embarrassed at the Tokyo Olympic Games, although they once defeated the US men's basketball team in last year's Olympic warm-up, but the record in the Olympic Games was 0 wins and 3 losses.
According to joe Vardon, he wrote: "Some of the assistant coaches who flew to Japan with the team found out after their arrival that they had not qualified for the Olympic Games from beginning to end, and an assistant coach even had to sleep on the team's training table without a pillow or a blanket."
"It is an exaggeration to say that so far, the Nigerian coaching staff has not received full salaries, and the reimbursement of related expenses has not arrived."
Nigeria's first match was against Australia on 25 July, and they were supposed to fly directly from San Francisco to Tokyo on the 19th, but the Nigerian Olympic Committee didn't buy them a ticket until the 20th. As a result, their flight was not direct, but a transfer in Germany, taking a total of 30 hours to get to Tokyo. As a result, the Nigerian men's basketball team arrived in Tokyo only a few hours before the opening ceremony on July 23."
"The Nigerian Olympic Committee did this to save money, and after the players arrived, the team's equipment had not yet arrived, and as a result, after the equipment arrived, the players found that everyone's equipment was the same size."
"At the Tokyo Olympics, Nigeria played against Australia, and the day before, they even missed nucleic acid testing because the players said no one had informed them of the need for testing at all."
You know, in this Nigerian men's basketball team, there are 8 NBA players (who were still in the NBA last summer), they are Presches Achuva, Okpala, Gab Vincent, Okoji, Okafu, Metu, Oni and Jordan Wola.
After seeing the encounter of the Nigerian men's basketball team, Chinese netizens directly let the national football team lie down: "After the fiasco of the national football team, this kind of news is so ironic!" "Our Olympic Committee organization is ok, but unfortunately we don't have players like Nigeria."