Jaysean Paige has been named BBL Player of the Year in the annual awards for the 2017-18 season by the British Basketball Journalists Association. Playing his first court time in the UK the number 55 jersey wearing Eagle led the British Basketball League in scoring this season with an average of 22.6 points a game and saw off Surrey…
Two of our Eagles made it onto the bench for the very last All-Star Five line-up of the 2017-18 season. Well done to Darius and Zarko! Here’s the full roster from the BBL: Tony Hicks (Surrey Scorchers) The curtain has fallen on a blistering rookie season in the BBL for Hicks, as the heroics of…
Bristol win on aggregate 163 – 157 Esh Group Eagles Newcastle crashed out of the BBL play-offs in Bristol yesterday afternoon after another disastrous away performance in keeping with what has happened since the turn of the year, writes Jeff King. Quite where the Eagles hierarchy go after one of the most disappointing seasons in…
At half-time in The BBL Play-Off Quarter Final, Esh Group Eagles Newcastle have an 11-point lead to defend in the second half against the Bristol Flyers, writes Jeff King. The difference is, this being play-off basketball that second half will be four quarters and forty minutes long and on the road this afternoon at the…
Earlier this week Newcastle Eagles’ owner Paul Blake suggested it was time to shake up the BBL playoffs and reintroduce a three-game series at the quarter-final stage. In the wake of this demoralising 11-point defeat on Tyneside, one match might seem more than enough for a well-beaten Bristol Flyers. It is difficult to imagine the…
The slate has been wiped clean and it’s a whole new ball game for Esh Group Eagles Newcastle as they head in to the BBL End of Season Play-Offs, writes Jeff King. After a largely disappointing and frustrating regular season, the Eagles have one last chance to lift some silverware. Finishing third in the standings…
Paul Blake is pressing BBL bosses to look again at the league’s lop-sided playoff structure in a bid to better reward the top four finishers. The former league chairman favours a return to the three-game series to decide the quarter-finals and semi-finals. And Blake revealed tentative talks have already taken place at the top level…
In the penultimate line up of the 2017-18 BBL campaign and our very own Jaysean Paige has become the season winner for the most starting appearances is the All-Star Five. Darius Defoe also appears playing off the bench. Congratulations Jaysean and well done DD. Here’s the full pick of players from the league this week:…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle take the long road trip to Surrey today for this afternoon’s final BBL Championship clash of the regular season with the possibility of the runners-up spot in the table still alive, writes Jeff King. Newcastle need to win, and hope London Lions slip up at Cheshire Phoenix later in the day to…
