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Timothy Ighoefe is an intimidating defender at 6-foot-11 and 245 pounds. Still, the Nigerian knows he must improve if his decision to play basketball instead of football is going to pay off and take him to the NBA.
The 18-year-old Ighoefe is committed to play for Patrick Ewing at Georgetown University next season, only three years after switching to basketball in his home town of Lagos.
“I need to work on my speed, running down the floor baseline to baseline,” Ighoefe said this week at the unveiling of a new training facility at the NBA African academy in Senegal. “My left hand, I need to improve, to finish with my left hand.”
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