D'Tigress, the Nigeria women's basketball team, will open their campaign at the 2018 FIBA Basketball Women's World Cup on Saturday in Spain, aiming to secure their first ever victory at the event.
The Nigerian team are making their second appearance at the tournament, following their debut in 2006, where they lost all three group games. They also fell flat in the two classification games that followed, and finished in 16th place.
Masai Ujiri, the president of the Toronto Raptors and a former Nigerian international, crossed paths with D'Tigress, who were holding a camp in Lagos, when he held his annual Giants of Africa programme recently.