His 'Irish Hulk' origin story complete, Igiehon comes home to make next incredible leap

From touted future NBA prospect and playing live on ESPN to a season opener in St Mary’s Hall in Portlaoise, the Dublin Lions big man has eyes on his present and the future of the game here

BLUE SKY DUNKING: Dublin Lions’ Aidan Igiehon at the National Basketball Arena for National League launch ahead of the 2024/25 Men's Division One season, which starts on October 5th. Pic: INPHO/James Crombie

Aidan Igiehon’s college basketball career concluded three days before St Patrick’s Day in the Orleans Arena, Las Vegas. Caesar’s Palace, the Bellagio and the rest of Sin City’s flashiest wares, sat in full view just five minutes away the other side of Frank Sinatra Drive. The game went out live on ESPN.

Abilene Christian Wildcats fell three points short of Stephen F. Austin in the opening round of the Western Athletic Conference Tournament and that was that: over a decade of Igiehon’s life in America was all but done having first arrived in Brooklyn as a 13-year old kid with just nine months of basketball under his belt.