The final workday of June was today and is recorded as another milestone in the build of our Eagles Community Arena as the court floor was being laid ready to receive the state-of-the-art flooring in the coming months. This part of the process is now almost complete and was all laid by our construction partner…
A long overdue blog methinks but in all honesty there has been little to blog about or has there? No, I don’t want to mislead you all, I haven’t a lot, if any, of the information that I’m sure you’re all craving but I have some opinions on some of the things that have been…
Our switch to the new Eagles Community Arena in November will be ‘massive for basketball in the region’. That’s the verdict of original Eagle Paul ‘Dougie’ Douglas with the Birmingham-based coach keeping a close eye on his former club’s landmark move. BBL stalwart Douglas played for the Eagles in the 1990s – a decade that…
In the latest instalment of our summer series on former Eagles and faces of British Basketball with connections to the club our LBTV commentator and coaching assistant Jeff King, or ‘Uncle Jeff’ to our players, caught up with 6’6 forward Kai Williams about playing for us last season… As the close season continues and we…
Congratulations to our NBL Division 1 Team Northumbria men’s head coach Marc Steutel who has just been announced in the same job with the Great Britain Under-20 Men’s squad. Coach Steutel takes the reigns from Bristol Flyers and Basketball England men’s Andreas Kapoulas, who had been at the helm of GB over the past two…
Over the last few of weeks on site at the Eagles Community Arena build the internal walls have started going up, which is giving the building a real sense of it’s completed form. Meanwhile in the arena our constructors Esh Group continue the groundwork in the latest phase leading up to eventually laying the court…
In the latest instalment of our summer break series of features on and interviews with former Eagles and faces of British Basketball, reporter Johnathan Ramsay caught up with fan favourite Andrew Bridge who believes we ‘need to work harder’ if we want to bounce back into the top two next season… The Derbyshire-born shooting guard…
Perfectly timed as we start our series of stories about faces of British Basketball with Eagles connections we congratulate Nick Nurse, the two-time BBL Coach of the Year who brought our own Fab Flournoy to Britain, on being confirmed as the new head coach of Toronto Raptors in the NBA. It was back in 1996 when…
In the off-season break we’ll be bringing you features and interviews with many faces of British Basketball starting with North Shields-born Gary Stronach. Stronach was one of British basketball’s most respected playcallers before he parted company with Plymouth Raiders in 2010 – beginning a self-imposed exile from the sport he loves. Simon Rushworth caught up with…
