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GB basketball

June 2024

  • Rose Chin on the basketball court

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I was partially paralysed by a stroke – and it felt like hell. Then I found a new sport, family and future

    Rose Chin was in a dark place after months in hospital. But when she tried out for a wheelchair basketball team, she met new friends and began doing things she never thought possible

June 2023

  • London Lions' Ovie Soko prepares to lift the trophy after their victory over Leicester Riders to win the British Basketball Cup Final in January 2023

    British basketball in ‘untenable’ position due to lack of funding, warns federation

    The GB Basketball chairman says the sport is at a ‘critical crossroads’, just two days before GB’s women aim to take a major step towards qualifying for the Olympics

August 2020

  • A view of play during the Vitality Netball Superleague season opener game between London Pulse and Strathclyde Sirens at Arena Birmingham on February 22, 2020

    'We could lose 50% of the game': netball among UK sports facing grassroots crisis

    Badminton, basketball and netball leagues are struggling to find venues and officials are calling on the for UK government to help schools and gyms reopen halls to help grassroots sports

February 2020

  • Britain’s Temi Fagbenle

    GB Basketball’s women fail to qualify for Olympics after loss to Spain

    Great Britain’s basketball women will not be going to the Olympics in Tokyo after a 79-69 defeat by Spain in a qualifying tournament

October 2017

  • Kevin Cadle, coaching the London Towers in 1997.

    Kevin Cadle, former basketball coach and Sky presenter, dies aged 62

    Kevin Cadle, the former GB basketball coach and longtime NFL and NBA broadcaster with Sky Sports, has died

November 2016

  • Tyler Saunders: ‘Wheelchair basketball is the same as the running game in almost every way.’

    How I work it
    My workout: Tyler Saunders, 33, wheelchair basketball player: ‘Taking shots, I’m happy’

    I found out about wheelchair basketball only by chance. It’s liberating to play a sport controlled by your hands, not your feet

August 2016

  • Andrew Bogut

    NBA star Andrew Bogut rips Olympic village – but officials say it's all in jest

    Boomers center sends mocking tweets about standard of Australian team’s accommodations shortly after arrival in Rio on Monday night

January 2016

  • 140x84 trailpic for Luol Deng guarantees 'unbelievable' game - NBA London preview

    Luol Deng guarantees 'unbelievable' game – NBA London preview

    Orlando Magic and Toronto Raptors are readying themselves for London. Luol Deng spoke exclusively to the Guardian about how excited UK fans should be for this match

May 2015

  • 140x84 trailpic for 'In ten years British basketball will be a major sport' - BBL video spotlight

    'In 10 years British basketball will be a major sport' – video

    Some of the sport's most influential names address the lack of funding in the UK, the standard of play and assess basketball's future

January 2015

  • Sean Ingle

    Sportblog
    Basketball’s street cred fuels its fight to become UK’s No2 sport

    Sean Ingle
    Gangs don’t sabotage sessions because in inner-city communities basketball is sacred among the youth, but the sport still desperately lacks the facilities to allow it to build

August 2014

  • Luol Deng

    Miami Heat’s Luol Deng admits British basketball has a bleak future

    Luol Deng admits he does not know what the future holds for British basketball and thinks funding cuts have left the sport at the point of no return

July 2014

  • Luol Deng

    MPs urge rethink on elite team sport funding after big blow to basketball

    The All Party Parliamentary Group on Basketball has called for a rethink of elite team sport funding in the wake of UK Sport’s decision to withdraw all support for British Basketball

March 2014

  • Olympics - London 2012 Olympics - Team GB Kitting Out - Basketball - Loughborough University

    'GB basketball has never been better, yet funding cut could be the end'

    Stef Collins
    Stef Collins: With standards soaring in British basketball, GB's most capped player is at a loss as to why funding is set to be withdrawn

February 2014

  • Great Britain Luol Deng in action during the London Olympics

    Basketball among sports stripped of Olympic funding by UK Sport

    British Basketball, synchronised swimming, water polo and weightlifting have been stripped of all Olympic funding after failing to meet their targets, UK Sport has announced

November 2013

  • Brick basketball

    Datablog
    Basketball: is there a formula for success?

    Researchers looked at what united the winning teams during September's Eurobasket 2013 event in Slovenia to pick out the factors that separated the victors from the losers

February 2013

  • OLYMPICS: AUG 02 London 2012 - Basketball - Spain v Great Britain

    British Basketball gets Olympic funding reprieve after UK Sport appeal

    British Basketball has been given a last-ditch funding reprieve after campaigning against a decision to axe its Olympic backing

January 2013

  • Luol Deng

    British Basketball optimistic that UK Sport will restore its funding

  • Luol Deng

    Luol Deng makes funding plea after severe cuts for British basketball

December 2012

  • London Olympic Games - Day 1

    UK Sport invests record £347m but wants more medals at 2016 Olympics

    UK Sport has cut investment completely from sports that did not perform this year at London 2012

August 2012

  • Luol Deng of Team GB reacts during the match against Australia at the Olympic Games

    London 2012: Team GB crash out of basketball after losing to Australia

    Team GB were well beaten by Australia as they crashed out of the basketball competition
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