Ongwae shades light on Morans call up

Kenyan International Tyler Ongwae has, shed light on his most recent inclusion in the national men’s basketball team, Kenya Morans, maintaining that, he is not making a comeback.

The power forward had called time on the national team in January last year after the Afrobasket, at a time when the team was rocked by accusation and counter accusations between a part of the playing unit, the then coach Liz Mills and the federation, ranging from poor management to indiscipline on the part of the playing unit.

Tylor Ongwae quits Kenya Morans

Ongwae was the top scorer in the 2019 AfroCan Championships, helping Kenya reach the final of the inaugural competition was included in the 29-man provisional squad named on Friday 9 June, ahead of this year’s competition set for July in Angola.

“My stance has not changed. I am not making a comeback to the team, at least not now,” the BC Parma (Russia) player who recently featured in the Basketball Africa League for Mills-coached Abidjan Basket Club (ABC) Fighters clarified. “No one reached out before the team was named so seeing my name on the list came as a surprise.”

At the time of his exit, he, had attributed his decision to what he termed as mismanagement. "I am not completely shutting the door on Morans but at the moment I am not part of the team,” he had said at the time.

He went on to miss the February and July windows of the FIBA Africa World Cup qualifiers.

The player who signed for BC Parma in Russian in July last year after a highly-successful four-year stint in Denmark, only joining ABC for the playoff quarter at the BAL tourney has been registered as playing for the latter thus making him eligible to feature in the AfroCan (which is a reserve for African-based player with a provision for two internationals) was he willing to.

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