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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 ...
The BBL Championship is the flagship competition of the British Basketball League and features all member teams playing a double round robin (home and away) league season, [40] from September through to April. [41] Matches are played according to FIBA rules and games consist of four-quarters of 10 minutes each.
The 2021–22 BBL Championship of the 2021–22 BBL season, the 35th season of the British Basketball League started on 29 October 2021 to 24 April 2022. [ 1 ] On 6 April 2022, Leicester Riders were crowned league champions and won their 6th BBL Championship title.
It was announced that the teams would share the names and colours of the existing men's BBL teams, meaning that there would be two teams from Sydney and Melbourne and one team from Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart, and Perth. [16] The inaugural Women's Big Bash League was won by the Sydney Thunder against the Sydney Sixers by 3 wickets.
The BBL Championship retained the three-game series format from the previous season, for a 27-game regular season, played across 24 Rounds between 29 October 2021 to 24 April 2022. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] On 6 April 2022, Leicester Riders were crowned league champions and won their 6th BBL Championship title.
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 .
On August 7, 2022, Dekker signed with the London Lions of the British Basketball League (BBL) and the EuroCup. [28] In his inaugural season, the Lions won both the 2022–23 BBL Cup and Championship, and Dekker was the top scorer in the EuroCup regular season. In May, Dekker was named the MVP of the 2022–23 BBL season. [29]
Surrey Scorchers’ BBL Championship fixtures against Worcester Wolves (28 December), London Lions (1 January) and Leicester Riders (3 January) have been postponed due to self-isolation requirements following a player testing positive for COVID-19. Under the Covid-19 rule amendments, these fixtures will be rescheduled as soon as possible.