Heat Kings Claim Inaugural Musa Kida U-17 Cup
Heat Kings on Saturday became the champion of the maiden edition of the Musa Kida Basketball Cup after they recorded two victories from two games at the Giants of Africa Court Abesan Estate,Ipaja ,Lagos
They beat Estate Kings in game one 49-31 to register their first win before beating Diamond Academy 43-19 in game 2 .
In another game played,Estate Kings defeated Diamond 29-06.
Estate Kings ended the three team format in second position while Diamond came third.
All the top three three teams got medals with the newly crowned winner,Heat Kings carting home the champions trophy.
There were individuals honours on as well with Heat Moses Ebujor emerging as Most Valuable Player of the competition.
Award for best defensive player went to Muiz Salami of Estate Kings,while Tomisin Alatishe of Diamond Academy picked the best three point shooter award.
In his remarks, Sponsor of the event, Eng Musa Kida said the competition is aimed at producing talents from the grassroots.Kida who doubles as President of Nigeria Basketball Federation commended the participating teams for gallant performance and assured that the competition will continue in 2024.
“I’m impressed with the turn out and especially the talents on ground,we will continue to do more for grassroots players,this how the legend among us started ,they all have humble beginning before turning global super stars.
The next edition will be greater and involve more teams ,don’t forget that this is festive season .
Kudos to the organisers as well for putting this together.
Coordinator of the event ,Tayo Adeyemo of Wonderland Sports said he was optimistic that lots of talents abound in the grassroots and urged clubs to take advantage of the Musa Kida basketball competition to discover talents for their teams.
He assured that the next edition will hold in April 2024 .
