A few weeks after being inexplicably omitted from Team USA’s roster for the upcoming Olympics, Los Angeles Sparks star and former WNBA MVP Nneka Ogwumike may have found her ticket to Tokyo. Ogwumike, along with her sister and Sparks teammate Chiney, has been named to the provisional Olympic roster for Nigeria’s national team.
If Nneka and Chiney are allowed to participate on the team, they’ll join sister Erica, with three members of the Ogwumike family representing Nigeria at the summer games.
The sisters all have dual citizenship in both the US and Nigeria, but the FIBA rules that govern what national team athletes play for are tricky.