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…
Grassroots Campaign Launched to Dispute British Basketball Funding Cut A grass roots campaign has been launched by members of the basketball community in the United Kingdom, urging UK Sport to reconsider their decision not to allocate funding to British basketball for the next Olympic cycle to 2016. ‘Fund British Basketball’, a website with an accompanying…
BBL Championship Newcastle Eagles 107 (Chapman 41, Smith 22, Defoe 12) One Health Sharks Sheffield 86 (Holmes/Jemison 18, Tuck 13) Newcastle Eagles bounced back from their disappointment of losing the BBL Cup Final last weekend to get their BBL Championship back in full swing thanks to a highly impressive 107-86 victory over the One Health…
