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Olympic Basketball Notes - Nigeria

You might be surprised by some of the names you’ll see here.

In 1992, when Charles Barkley took a shot from Angola's very slim Herlander Coimbra, he gave him an NBA-type elbow and then said "somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a couple weeks. I thought he was going to pull a spear on me."

Barkley had no idea of the guy's name.

African basketball has changed a lot since then. Take Nigeria.

A modern-day Barkley would recognize the Aminu brothers, Alade and Al-Farouq.