Tall task: Cape Verde aims high in AfroBasket semifinals

[ASFN Admin]

Tiny Cape Verde has one big advantage as it tries to become African basketball champion for the first time: 7-foot-3 former NBA draft pick Walter ''Edy'' Tavares. The Real Madrid center has led his squad into the AfroBasket semifinals to face defending champion Tunisia on Saturday, when Senegal squares off with Ivory Coast in the other final-four game in host city Kigali, Rwanda. It also gives dual nationals and a handful of naturalized citizens - like former UCLA star Michael Roll of Tunisia - a chance to represent a country.

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