Four of our starting five this week will contest the forthcoming BBL Trophy semi-finals. Stefan Gill (Manchester Giants) The Giants’ guard takes his second berth in the BBL Team of the Week, courtesy of some blistering three-point shooting which torched Surrey Heat and resulted in Gill finishing with a stellar 28 points. He was a…
Newcastle Eagles 88 (Smith 23, Maddox 21, Defoe 16) Worcester Wolves 94 (Owumi 34, Masiulis 19, Ocitti) Worcester Wolves shocked a sell-out crowd at Sport Central with a superb 94-88 victory against Newcastle Eagles. Nothing could separate the teams over the first three quarters but a 7-0 burst gave Wolves a 78-71 lead late in…
Proj3kt 3on3, the youth basketball project launched at five of the BBL clubs last October as a partnership between the BBL Foundation and Sport England, has now added a series of regional tournaments to the regular sessions they have been running in the five BBL clubs local areas. These regional tournament winners will get chance…
Proj3kt 3on3 the youth basketball project launched at five of the BBL clubs last October, is a partnership between the BBL Foundation and Sport England, and includes local BBL club Newcastle Eagles. The club have now added regional tournaments to the regular sessions they have been running in the local area. The regional tournament winners…
BBL Team Of The Week – Week 20 There’s a record-breaker in our line-up this week after the highest performance valuation score in BBL Team of the Week history. Joe Chapman (Newcastle Eagles) The Eagles backcourt ace has really found some form since the turn of the new calendar year and having been the most…
Newcastle Eagles player-coach Fab Flournoy had praise for Charles Smith as his 49 points and 16 rebounds helped his side defeat neighbours Durham Wildcats 106-65. “We started really well at Durham and played some excellent transition basketball in the first quarter. Charles got going early and never stopped!” said Flournoy after Smith drained eight three-pointers…
BBL Championship Durham Wildcats 65 (Smith 49, Defoe 21, Chapman 18) Newcastle Eagles 106 (Page 12, Keister 11, Guinane 11) Despite having won three of their previous five games and facing a Newcastle Eagles side without key playmaker Damon Huffman, Durham Wildcats were routed in the north-east derby after two very special performances by Charles…
UK Sports have had a rethink on the funding of the Great Britain national programme, following a successful appeal by British Performance Basketball last Wednesday. Funding details remain to be agreed, but the GB teams are assured of funding for at least a year. BBL Chairman Paul Blake welcomed the news, “We are absolutely delighted…
We take a look at who has been hot in the BBL during the month of January. Scoring machines January was a time when offence really came to the fore, as a staggering eight players managed to smash through the 20 points per game barrier – more than twice as many who achieved the feat…
