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…
The Newcastle Eagles confirmed the return of 19-year-old Point Guard Themba Yabantu to their ranks for the 2019-20 season. A graduate of the Eagles junior ranks, this will be Yabantu’s third season with the senior side and his second full season. Last campaign was a bit stop and start for a young man with real…
It will come as no surprise to many that Newcastle Eagles have once again brought back to their roster veteran guard Drew Lasker. This will be the seventh consecutive season that the Point Loma Nazarene graduate has suited up for the Eagles making it overall his eighth season. Lasker has played his entire professional career,…
There’s a new kid in town as Newcastle Eagles announce their second signing for the forthcoming 2019-20 British Basketball League (BBL) season. Ex-Towson Tiger Mike Morsell has swapped his claws for a pair of wings as he prepares to start his second season as a professional player. Morsell played his college ball with Towson in…
As the return of BBL and WBBL action approaches, along with the new NBL and CVL seasons for our academy and junior club players, preparations are taking place both in and outside our Eagles Community Arena. Last month our Eagles Community Foundation, the charity who own and operate the ECA, appealed to Eagles basketball fans…
One of the WBBL’s most consistent performers has committed her future to Newcastle Eagles despite a flurry of interest from the continent. Point guard Giulia Simioni skippered the team last season during a transitional campaign that saw Chris Bunten’s side move to the new Eagles Community Arena. And the coveted playmaker was crowned Newcastle’s WBBL Most…
Two Eagles have flown to to the FIBA Under-18 Men’s European Championships with our national team this summer and produced a stunning 87-85 overtime win against over reigning champions Serbia yesterday. Our Eagles Academy star Tosan Evbuomwan (pictured wearing jersey number 11) finished as the second-top-scorer of the clash, in part from his lay-up with…
Fab Flournoy insists a summer spent embedded with NBA champions Toronto Raptors has taken his basketball knowledge to the next level. For the second year running the experienced New Yorker has accepted the invitation of former mentor and Raptors’ head coach Nick Nurse to spend time with the all-conquering Canadian franchise. And there is inevitable talk that…
British Basketball League stars Matthew Bryan-Amaning, Conner Washington, Josh Ward Hibbert, Josh Steel, Jordan Spencer and our very own Darius Defoe headline rosters in this Sunday’s ‘Jump 10’ event at Loughborough University. The club is dispatching it’s very own team for the one-day tournament, which will be led by BBL team assistant coach Ian Macleod….
