Former NBA lottery pick saw wave of Nigerian players coming

[ASFN Admin]

Fifteen years after Ike Diogu was a first-round NBA draft pick, Nigerians are setting records. ''I saw the wave that was coming, but I was just happy the rest of the world got to see it,'' said the 37-year-old Diogu, the captain of Nigerian national team. The NBA hailed last week's draft as ''historic'' because for the first time two players from Nigeria were first-rounders, and another six who have at least one Nigerian parent were also picked.

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