Fab Flournoy has hailed the superb 105-75 win over Cheshire Jets that booked the Eagles their place in a staggering fourth successive BBL Trophy Final. After losing their grip on the Trophy last season against Plymouth, they will have to travel to Devon and the Raiders’ home-court on Sunday, March 2, but it will be…
Fab Flournoy has landed the services of Aussie star Steve Leven as Newcastle Eagles try to bolster their roster in anticipation of a hectic BBL Championship run-in. Leven started the current season with Australian NBL outfit Perth Wildcats and is currently plying his trade in the Icelandic League. He agreed terms with the Eagles late…
Newcastle Eagles will now face Cheshire Jets and not Milton Keynes in Saturday’s BBL Trophy semi-finals after the Lions were sensationally dumped out of the competition. Fab Flournoy and his players have been enjoying a near-fortnight break from action and have been preparing to face the Lions – the team that beat them in the…
A bullish Fab Flournoy was today reflecting on coming within a whisker of being dumped out of the BBL Trophy after his Newcastle Eagles side crashed 100-78 to Scottish Rocks in Glasgow. Just a week after the Cup Final loss, a defeat would have been a crushing psychological blow for the New Yorker who was…
Newcastle Eagles have parted company with recent signing Bryan Defares, who has been released by mutual consent. The Dutchman arrived on Tyneside earlier this month and played in a handful of games for the club, collecting a runners-up medal after taking part in the 2008 BBL Cup Final against the Marshall MK Lions. However things…
Newcastle Eagles bounced back from their BBL Cup Final nightmare to cruise past the Everton Tigers and all but put their name in the draw for the final four of the BBL Trophy. The Eagles, inspired by the brilliant Andrew Bridge, closed out a 16-point victory 48 hours after their heartbreaking loss to the Milton…
Playcaller Fabulous Flournoy may already have clinched every major accolade in British basketball but the Eagles coach last night expressed his bitter disappointment at losing the BBL Cup final to Milton Keynes Lions. For a second consecutive year the Newcastle Eagles lost at the final stage of the competition and gifted the cup to a…
Marshall MK Lions secured the first piece of silverware of the season with a 69-66 triumph over Newcastle Eagles in the BBL Cup Final at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham on Sunday afternoon. Lions’ Kevin Griffin was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) in this most anticipated of matches that pitted the BBL’s top two…
Since TJ Walker’s departure, Charles Smith has stepped up his game. For a man known to his fans as ‘The Prince’, it is perhaps fitting that Charles Smith has recently succeeded to second in line on the Newcastle Eagles playing staff. Since the abdication of the legendary TJ Walker, the forward from Philadelphia has become…
