D’Tigers to open camp with home-based players for 2019 World Cup qualifiers; it was published that the Nigeria Basketball federation disclosed that their plans to get the male basketball team the best assistance to qualify for the 2019 World cup.

Also, NBFF will open camp with domestic players early enough by January before their foreign counterparts join the team. He also stated that Nigeria will be contending in group B which consists of Mali, Rwanda and Uganda in the World Cup qualifiers which will hold from 23 to 25 February 2019.