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…
BBL Team of the Week – Week 19 It’s been a sensational time for Durham of late and that is reflected in our line-up which features two Wildcats’ debutantes. BJ Holmes (One Health Sharks Sheffield) Just a couple of weeks after making his debut, BJ Holmes is back again, after making sure it was a…
BBL Championship Newcastle Eagles 121 (Defoe 24, Smith 21, Chapman 16) Mersey Tigers 58 (Hulsen 17, Lockett 16, Eboigbe 12) The Newcastle Eagles swept aside the Mersey Tigers – winning 121-58 – to move clear of the Jelson Homes DMU Leicester Riders at the summit of the BBL Championship table. The Eagles had seven players…
BBL Team Of The Week – Week 18 It was a landmark weekend as one player provided the best performance valuation of the season. Brice Fantazia (Glasgow Rocks) It’s a debut appearance in our line-up for the Rocks’ guard after he posted his best performance of what is now his second stint with the Scottish…
