Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The 2023–24 BBL season was the 37th and final season of the British Basketball League, the top British professional basketball league, since its establishment in 1987. The season features 10 teams from across England and Scotland.
On 14 June 2024 British Basketball, the national governing body for basketball in the UK, terminated the league's licence, [33] meaning that the UK men's professional league would no longer be run by the current operating company behind the BBL. British Basketball cited financial concerns as a principal driver of the decision, and promised that ...
The British Basketball League Championship, often shortened to the BBL Championship, is the top-level men's professional basketball league in the United Kingdom. Established in 1987, the competition is administered by the British Basketball League and comprises 10 teams from both England and Scotland. Each team plays a 36-game regular season ...
This structure continued through the introduction of the independent, franchise-based British Basketball League in 1987, though the cup was eventually truncated to a 16-team event for 1998 onwards, with the clubs holding a BBL franchise being joined by the top teams from the previous year's NBL Division 1 standings. This change in format came ...
The National Basketball League, or NBL for short, is a league competition representing semi-professional and amateur basketball clubs from England and Wales. It forms levels 2 to 5 on the British basketball pyramid, in line with the Scottish Basketball Championship , sitting directly below the top tier competition, Super League Basketball .
On 17 November, Great Britain international Kofi Josephs scored 46 points in a home defeat to Manchester Giants, [11] a record for the most points scored in a BBL game by a British-born player. [12] The Patriots' first competitive victory came on 9 January 2022, when they defeated Basketball Wales 113–66 in the first round of the BBL Trophy.
The BBL Trophy retained the same, 16-team bracket format as introduced for the 2018–19 season. The eleven BBL teams were joined in the first round draw by five invited teams; Solent Kestrels, Derby Trailblazers, Thames Valley Cavaliers, Hemel Storm and Reading Rockets, all from the English Basketball League. [8] [9]
The 2012–13 BBL season was the 26th campaign of the British Basketball League since the league's establishment in 1987. The season featured 12 teams from across England and Scotland including a new entrant, the reformed Manchester Giants , who were based on the original franchise of the same name that folded in 2001. [ 1 ]