Ovie Soko and Myles Hesson, GB’s two top scorers from the second round of EuroBasket 2021 Pre-Qualifying, highlight a talented roster which blends youth with experience. GB who are riding on a three-game game winning streak and have named Nate Reinking as their new head coach, hope to continue the positive momentum through to the …
GB Under-18 Men take on Turkey in their first Group A game on Saturday evening evening at the Portaria Hall in Volos, Greece. Head Coach Alan Keane named his final 12 players prior to the trip who will represent GB at this Summer’s FIBA U18 European Championships and take on the Turks, Serbia and Germany …
The British Basketball Federation have appointed Nate Reinking as head coach of the Great Britain men’s national team ahead of the EuroBasket 2021 pre-qualifying programme next month. The former GB guard and assistant coach will succeed Alberto Lorenzo. Reinking, 45, is the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ NBA G-League affiliate Canton Charge and has …
The Great Britain U16 Womens team will enter camp this week ahead of their European Championships as 16 players will have another opportunity to show why they belong in Coach Kenrick Liburd’s final 12. With the European Championships getting underway in Sofia, Bulgaria in mid-August, Coach Liburd has pulled his players into camp once more …
GB U16 Men’s Head Coach, James Vear, has named the initial 18-man training squad as the team begin their preparations ahead of August’s European Championships. Players from across the UK have already gathered as the team spent some time in Loughborough to begin the camp, which is set to continue over the next few weeks. …
With a year to go to Tokyo 2020, Great Britain and England point guard Georgia Jones reflects on GB’s success at Women’s EuroBasket 2019 – and looks forward to achieving even more after the team secured entry to the Olympic qualifying tournament. One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.I am …
The Great Britain men’s and women’s teams for the Fiba 3×3 Under-18 Euope Cup qualifier have been confirmed. The event will take place in Rieti, Italy on August 3 and 4. The men, led by GB veteran Gareth Murray will play Spain, Serbia and the Netherlands in Pool B. The women, led by Renee Busch, join …
GB Men will play in a testing qualifying group for EuroBasket 2021 as long as they get through their pre-qualifiers in August. If they are successful in their home-and-away showdowns against Luxembourg and Kosovo next month, they will progress to face Germany, France and Montenegro in qualifying Group G. There they must avoid finishing bottom …
Less than a month after GB’s EuroBasket Women semi-final v France, the draw for the 2021 EuroBasket Women qualifiers took place in Munich as the teams begin preparations for the next set of qualifiers. GB Women have been drawn in Group F, one of three groups to contain just three teams, alongside Belarus and Poland. …
GB U18 Men’s Head Coach, Alan Keane, has named the final 12 players who will represent GB at this Summer’s FIBA U18 European Championships. The squad will travel to Greece tomorrow ahead of the tournament’s tip off in Volos on July 27th. Germany, Serbia and Turkey await the side in Group A as 16 teams …
GB U20 Men finished in 8th position at the FIBA European Championships, following a spirited loss to Croatia by 82-63 in a play-off game to determine the final team positions of the tournament. Croatia started strongly and looked every inch the favourites as they took a quick 7-0 advantage, helped by GB committing two early fouls. A quick GB time-out helped get them organised and Niall Harris soon got GB’s first points to make it 7-2. A fast-break opportunity …
GB’s hopes of a possible medal in this FIBA tournament were dashed 56-81 by a strong German performance in Tel Aviv this afternoon. The strength of the German inside play, with Philip Herkenhoff and Nils Hassfurther to the fore, produced enough easy scores at the offensive end and stops at the defensive end to keep …
