JOHANNESBURG -- Portland Trailblazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu has stated his intention to play for Nigeria at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifiers in September.
Aminu, who is in South Africa for the Basketball without Borders and NBA Africa week in Johannesburg, played for the Nigerian national team at the 2012 Olympics, but has not featured for D'Tigers since 2015.
That year Nigeria won the AfroBasket title, and Aminu, who has missed international action since then due to his NBA commitments with Portland, is looking forward to a return to the green and white next month.
The US-born dual citizen told KweséESPN: "The tournament is in September, and I just talked to my team-mates, we have a Whats App group chat, and I realised there was a need for me to play.