Dan Boyce sits down with Ebi Ere who played 176 NBL games with Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide.
He averaged 19 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists over his five-year NBL career. He also represented Nigeria in the 2006 FIBA World Championships and the 2016 Olympic games.
Topics include...
Retirement and how things wrapped up for Ebi Ere's career after leaving the Adelaide 36ers in 2016 (2:00) Plant-based diets and how it extended Ebi's career (6:00) College career with the Oklahoma Sooners (8:00) NBA opportunities with Portland, Los Angeles and Memphis (13:00) Ebi Ere first year as a pro with the Sydney Kings (21:00) Brian Goorjian refuses to play Ebi Ere in crunch time (23:00) The Sydney Kings win the 2004 NBL championship (27:00) Breaking down the final three games of the Kings Vs Razorbacks Grand Final (31:00) Ebi Ere leads Brisbane to the 2007 NBL Championship (41:00) Getting the best out of Sam MacKinnon (43:00) Why the 2007 Brisbane Bullets weren't able to repeat (47:00) Playing in the FIBA World Championship and Olympics with the Nigerian national team (50:00) The biggest hurdles and highlights of his career (58:00)Visit dunk.com.au for your next set of basketball uniforms.
All of this and a whole lot more...
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