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Gallery: Bubble Day One
FIBA EuroBasket 2022 Qualifiers: Travelling squad
Head Coach Marc Steutel has today confirmed the 14-man squad that travelled to Pau, France. The team made the journey to FIBA’s bubble ahead of this weekend’s EuroBasket 2022 qualifying double-header against France and Montenegro. The hosts, who are currently ranked sixth in the world, are up first on Friday before the team’s second group …
EuroBasket Qualifiers 2022: The story so far
With just a few days until GB face France and Montenegro in the latest EuroBasket 2022 qualifiers, here’s a recap of how we arrived at the EuroBasket qualifiers. November/December 2018 We began our qualifying two years ago in the Second Round of FIBA’s EuroBasket Pre-Qualifiers, drawn into Group D with Austria and Cyprus. The first …
Young guns can help fire up GB – Clark, Okereafor
Great Britain’s new young guns can help keep the team firing for their EuroBasket Qualifiers in France next weekend. That is the view of veterans Dan Clark and Teddy Okereafor – who believe the recent youthful additions to the national team squad will keep the old guard ‘on their toes’ as well. The likes of 19-year-old Kareem Queeley, Jacob Round (20) and Cameron Hildreth …
GB ‘underdogs’ ready to bite in Pau double-header
Great Britain’s Group G ‘underdogs’ will be ready to bare their teeth when EuroBasket action resumes next weekend. GB face FIBA sixth-ranked France and Montenegro (26th) in the Pau ‘bubble’ in what were scheduled to be home games before Covid-19 played havoc with the sporting calendar. But despite being rated 42 in the world, the …
Squad for GB Men’s FIBA EuroBasket 2022 Qualifiers named
The 24-man squad for Great Britain’s FIBA EuroBasket 2022 Qualifiers against France and Montenegro this month has been named. GB go into the games in top form having won eight of their last ten games including a convincing 81-73 victory over Germany last time out. Eleven of the 12 players who featured in that important win in Newcastle are recalled, while …
British Basketball and British Esports join forces for NBA 2K
Two national bodies are teaming up to represent the very best that Great Britain has to offer in a new basketball esports tournament. The British Basketball Federation will be working closely with the British Esports Association to select and manage a team of NBA 2K21 esports players. This team will represent Great Britain on the …
Hesson: Proud and confident ahead of GB EuroBasket double-header
Myles Hesson goes into the November EuroBasket Qualifiers against France and Montenegro feeling a mixture of confidence and pride. The Great Britain co-captain is set to feature in back-to-back games in Pau, France as part of a team buoyed by a convincing win over Germany in Newcastle last time out. And, despite the two ‘home’ games being played in a central Covid-secure bubble …
GB Men & Women to play November games in central ‘bubbles’
The Great Britain Men and Women’s November home games have been switched to central bubbles in France and Turkey respectively, FIBA has announced. The pair of EuroBasket 2022 Qualifiers against France (November 27) and Montenegro (November 29), scheduled to take place in the UK, were switched to Pau last week along with other Group G …
GB Basketball awarded £180k via UK Sport’s Continuity Fund
The British Basketball Federation (BBF), the National Governing Body for the sport of basketball with responsibility of the national teams, has been awarded up to £180,000 by UK Sport to help lessen the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. The move will help support the GB Men and GB Women’s squads in their forthcoming international home …
On the move – where GB stars will be playing next season
There will be new teams for some of Great Britain’s stars when basketball returns – while other have announced extensions at their current clubs. There may be uncertainty about when playing can resume following the coronavirus pandemic, but there have been plenty of preparations taking place. Here is where some of our GB players will …