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    Nigeria’s Olympic Basketball Team will have eight players from the NBA

    Eight current NBA players on Nigeria’s 12-man Olympic roster from Hoops Rumors with Luke Adams, and from YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com After making some noise in the exhibition schedule by upsetting Team USA, Nigeria will be looking to become the first African men’s basketball team to win an Olympic medal. And it will be doing so with a roster that features eight current NBA players, along with one former NBA player. Here’s the 12-man squad that will represent Nigeria at the Tokyo games, per the Nigeria Basketball Federation (Twitter link): Precious Achiuwa (Heat) Caleb Agada Obi Emegano Chimezie Metu (Kings) Ike Nwamu Jordan…