Our 2019-20 BBL kit is on sale from the club shop at our pre-season games. Don’t miss your first opportunities to buy this landmark kit for a landmark season! Along with our away kit it will be available to buy online soon as well as at all our BBL home games.
Chris Bunten has gone back to the future after revealing Ruth Davison will relaunch her top fight flight career with Newcastle Eagles WBBL this season. The former Team Northumbria and GB Under 20 guard burst onto the local hoops scene more than a decade ago. And Davison co-captained England’s Under 18 squad in 2008 at…
The first fixture of the post-Fabulous Flournoy era tipped off against a backdrop of mixed emotions following the 6pm announcement that the BBL’s most decorated coach had accepted an assistant’s role in the NBA with reigning champions Toronto Raptors. And Newcastle’s players – who were told of their coach’s decision at a team meeting the…
Fabulous Flournoy has admitted the decision to join the Toronto Raptors is the most difficult career choice he has ever faced. But the Newcastle Eagles’ playcaller heads to the NBA with the blessing of close friend and managing director Paul Blake. Flournoy has accepted an assistant coach’s role with Nick Nurse’s Championship winning Raptors –…
Orieoma Chukwu-Etu can be the benchmark for Newcastle Eagles’ wannabes across the North East after the talented Tynesider became the club’s fifth WBBL signing of the summer. That’s the verdict of head coach Chris Bunten who believes the fast-rising guard can play a key role this season. Former Sacred Heart pupil Chukwu-Etu came through the…
As Newcastle Eagles prepare to face USA Select in their opening pre-season game at the Eagles Community Arena tonight, they have confirmed that there will be a Williams on their roster for 2019-20. 6’6” Small Forward Kai Williams who averaged 11.4 points and 4.3 rebounds per game for the Eagles last season will suit up for…
The Newcastle Eagles may have moved into a new arena last year but no matter where they’ve played one man seems to have been a permanent fixture and fitting in their playing roster. That man is veteran power forward Darius Defoe who has committed to his sixteenth successive season in the black and white since…
With a name like Rodney Glasgow Jr., perhaps it was destiny that brought the 5’11” point guard to the BBL. Only thing is, he’s flying in to be a new Eagle in Newcastle and not rocking up in Scotland. After a great college career at the tough and disciplined Virginia Military Institute in NCAA Division…
There can’t be many 23-year-olds that will begin their 8th season as a BBL player but Eagles Academy graduate Eddie Matthew is one after his resigning was confirmed by Newcastle Eagles for this season. Matthew’s senior career started when he was still part of the Eagles’ junior setup way back in 2012 when as a raw…
