Luol Deng discussed the potential of British Basketball in an interview on BBC Sport during yesterday’s benecos Basketball Play-Offs at The O2. The two-time NBA All-Star and GB Olympian spoke positively about the future with the full interview available to watch on Facebook: https://t.co/IoKiSh29cw pic.twitter.com/qalGqk0p4M — British Basketball League (@BBLofficial) May 20, 2019
Sevenoaks Suns closed out the fifth WBBL season in style with victory in the benecos Play-Off Final, led by 23 points from MVP Janice Monakana. The star forward produced a game defining display: her game-high 23 points proved the difference between the two sides, as Monakana’s output off the bench was 16 points more than …
Sevenoaks Suns marked the close of the fifth WBBL season with victory in the benecos Play-Off Final. benecos WBBL Play-Off Final Sevenoaks Suns 60-55 Leicester Riders (21-15, 29-33, 42-41) Sevenoaks Suns made it three WBBL Play-Off titles in a row with a thrilling 60-55 victory over Leicester Riders in the benecos Play-Off Final, in front …
GB Head Coach Jose Maria Buceta has today named his 17-woman squad for this summer’s FIBA Women’s EuroBasket. Tipping off in 40 days, the championships will be held across Latvia and Serbia as 16 teams compete for the FIBA Women’s EuroBasket crown. Held between June 27th and July 7th, the tournament also serves as …
GB Head Coach Jose Maria Buceta has today named his 17-woman squad for this summer’s FIBA Women’s EuroBasket. Tipping off in 41 days, the championships will be held across Latvia and Serbia as 16 teams compete for the FIBA Women’s EuroBasket crown. Held between June 27th and July 7th, the tournament also serves as a …
Sarah Toeaina has been crowned the Molten WBBL MVP for 2018-19 after a stellar first year in British Basketball at Wesfield Health Sheffield Hatters. Her consistency has been incredible and she was the only player to reach double-digits in the number of weekly All-Star Five appearances, after racking up 10 of them through the campaign. …
Great Britain’s Men were able to finish the 2nd round of pre-qualification for EuroBasket 2021 with a 78-75 win over Austria, but the margin of victory wasn’t sufficient for GB to top Group D. 26 points from Austria’s Sylven Landesberg led all scorers, with the talented shooter going to the line a whopping 20 times …
GB were able to dominate an under-manned Cyprus side 84-47 and keep their hopes of reaching EuroBasket 2021’s qualification stage alive. Myles Hesson top scored with 18 points, adding six rebounds and two assists. Carl Wheatle had 14 points in support, with Andrew Lawrence and Ovie Soko both adding 11 apiece. Missing five senior players, …
Nearly a decade on since a fresh-faced Dan Clark made his international debut for Great Britain, he is now getting ready to celebrate becoming the nation’s latest basketball centurion. Clark won his 100th cap away to Cyprus in December and is set to be recognised before tomorrow night’s return match against the same opposition in …
With camp just a day old for Great Britain’s Men, Head Coach Alberto Lorenzo has already been forced to shuffle his pack ahead of the crunch EuroBasket pre-qualifiers against Cyprus and Austria. Following the omission of Ogo Adegboye from GB’s initial 12 due to a serious knee injury, Lorenzo has now been required to make …
Following a period of review, GB Basketball has taken the decision not to allow independent filming during any of our home games for the foreseeable future. As we are broadcasting games via the FIBA YouTube Channel (available through the FIBA website) and actively signposting streams on our own social media channels as well as those …
The Great Britain forward led the way in their opening two pre-EuroBasket 2021 qualifying encounters and will be looking to do the same at the National Basketball Performance Centre on Thursday night. Hesson had 18 points in the 96-82 loss against Austria in late-November but his 21 point-effort in the following game away to Cyprus …
