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The British Basketball Federation, known as British Basketball, is the national sports governing body for basketball in Great Britain. It organises Great Britain teams for men and women in international competition. Northern Irish players normally compete for Ireland, but are also eligible to compete for the GB.
The British Basketball League (BBL) was a men's professional basketball league in Great Britain. Since its establishment in 1987 the BBL represented the highest level of basketball competition within the United Kingdom .
At the first Euro finals for Great Britain after the formation of British Basketball, the national team were drawn into a tough Group C, which featured European heavyweights Spain, and Serbia along with a feisty Slovenia squad. However, the team was overmatched by the international experience those national sides possessed, and ultimately ...
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.
British Basketball League: 2000–01: North: Sheffield Sharks [b] South: London Towers [b] Leicester Riders: N/A [a] Chester Jets: Loren Meyer (Chester Jets) Robbie Peers
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 ...
With the arrival of the Americans into the War in 1917, many keen British basketball players, found out more about the game and in 1918 an American YMCA Physical Director brought some influence to bear on the District Associations in England, with the result that the local rules were altered slightly and the game became more like the American game.
Until 1993, the BBL operated as Carlsberg League Division One, using a promotion-relegation system with National Basketball League. Many of the teams listed below played in the NBL before joining the BBL, whereas some joined, or rejoined, the NBL/EBL after a stint in Britain's premier basketball league. [1] Birmingham Bullets (1987-1988 and ...