Jaysean Paige becomes one of a pair of players who rack up an impressive fifth starting slot in the league’s weekly pick of players of the season following his stand-out performance against Leicester last Friday. Two members of this week’s opposition in the Sharks join him in the All-Star starters. Here’s the full roster this…
Last week over 400 young people took part in the second annual Tesco Bank Junior Players tournament which has it’s grand final at half-time during our game this Friday night against the Sheffield Sharks. On the day the team from Tesco Bank were out in force helping to make the whole event possible along with…
On Friday night as our Eagles triumphed over the Leicester Riders the draw took place for the 2018 BBL Trophy Semi-Finals live on BBC Sport. While our visitors were no-doubt fully focussed on the Championship game at Sport Central, the draw has thrown up a rare possibility of an all-Riders clash with one of their…
This Wednesday saw over 400 primary school pupils from across Newcastle take part in the second annual Tesco Bank Junior Players tournament. Amongst the crowds watching the action on court was our Eagles BBL players and brothers, Jamal and Kai Williams, who stopped by ahead of their much anticipated BBL Championship match against Leicester Riders…
The Eagles Rookie League sponsored by intu is a turn up and play, fun and friendly way for kids in school years 1 through to 5 to get involved in playing basketball, keeping fit and staying healthy. HEALTH, FITNESS AND FUN FOR SCHOOL YEARS 1-5 Head on down to Gateshead Leisure Centre every Sunday 14 January…
This week we are excited to share a couple of the architect’s impressions of how our Eagles Community Arena might look when it is completed later this year. Tens of thousands of people will walk through the doors of our purpose-built 2,800-seater arena and home to our Eagles Community Foundation at Riverside Dene in Elswick,…
After his impressive play in our final game of 2017 away at Sheffield, Terry Martin made the bench in the All-Star line-up from the British Basketball League this week. Here’s the league’s full team sheet: Rema Lascelles (Leicester Riders) The Leicester guard picks up his first ever starting Weekly All-Star Five place after showing his…
At this time of year many people take time to be thankful and that is no different for our Eagles Community Foundation this year. The foundation has so much going as it looks towards the build of the Eagles Community Arena in 2018 and this year they were delighted to receive a huge boost for…
A huge thank you from everyone at the Eagles goes to all of our fans for their generosity and support with the charity appeals we backed in the run-up to Christmas. We asked you for donations of food, gifts and toys for those less fortunate and we were overwhelmed with what we collected on game…
