{"id":41988,"date":"2024-08-06T08:18:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T08:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=41988"},"modified":"2024-08-06T08:18:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T08:18:56","slug":"paris-2024-womens-basketball-kalu-tops-dtigress-scoring-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/06\/paris-2024-womens-basketball-kalu-tops-dtigress-scoring-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris 2024 Women\u2019s Basketball: Kalu Tops D\u2019Tigress\u2019 Scoring Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D\u2019Tigress point guard, Ezinne Kalu leads the team\u2019s scoring chart with 58 points during the group stage of the women\u2019s basketball event at the ongoing 2024 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu , who was named the 2019 AfroBasket Most Valuable Player (MVP) top the chart following her excellent displays during the three matches played against Australia, France and Canada in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>The point guard scored 18 points against Australia, 19 points in Nigeria\u2019s loss to France and recorded 21 points in the clash against Canada.<br \/>\nKalu\u2019s scoring prowess is a testament of her passion and resilience to deliver better performance for her team in Paris 2024.<\/p>\n<p>She was also one of the team\u2019s better performers three years in Tokyo.<br \/>\nMuch will be expected from her when D\u2019Tigress take on holders USA in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u2019Tigress point guard, Ezinne Kalu leads the team\u2019s scoring chart with 58 points during the group stage of the women\u2019s basketball event at the ongoing 2024 Olympic Games. Kalu , who was named the 2019 AfroBasket Most Valuable Player (MVP) top the chart following her excellent displays during the three matches played against Australia, France [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":41989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1250],"class_list":["post-41988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-dtigress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41990,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41988\/revisions\/41990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}