South Sudan's national basketball team got global attention after the game against Team USA. Led by former Los Angeles Lakers ...

VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France — The president of South Sudan’s basketball federation and the national ... NBA players, and it was the only African country in the tournament’s 12-team field.

The United States men’s basketball national team moved to 2-0 ... shooting and pulling down seven rebounds. Team USA outscored South Sudan by 15 points in the time Embiid was on the court.

Deng, who played for five NBA teams over 15 seasons after ... stages of fielding a national team. Nonetheless, South Sudan is fielding roster with four players who have appeared in an NBA ...

For South Sudan Basketball Federation President Luol Deng, it was the culmination of everything that he and the team had worked so hard to achieve. “When the national anthem was sung ...

July 21, 2024 (JUBA)- South ... national pride that I congratulate the leadership of the South Sudan Basketball Federation under Luol Deng and all the players of the South Sudan men’s basketball ...

but I want to use basketball to change the narrative and the stories of South Sudan." The national team's Olympic breakthrough could help the former Chicago Bulls player do just that. So far ...