British Basketball news

Global restaurant brand, Subway, has teamed up with GB Basketball, Breaking GB and Skateboard GB to promote physical activity in these three emerging sports. The ... More

Five sports have secured additional funding towards their high-performance programmes ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Games. Elite funding agency UK Sport will invest up to ... More

British Basketball Federation (BBF) has appointed highly experienced sports governance veteran Maurice Watkins CBE as its new chair. Watkins is the current chair of both ... More

UK Sport is to deliver a "one-off" support deal to British Basketball, in order to help the troubled national governing body fulfil international fixtures scheduled ... More

Dame Katherine Grainger, the incoming chair of UK Sport, has dismissed calls to review the quango’s ‘no compromise’ approach despite 11 sports claiming that the ... More

Sport England has unveiled its latest tranche of national governing body (NGB) grants, distributing £101m between 25 national governing bodies. Several of the governing bodies ... More

The doctor of both the Great Britain men's basketball team and York City Football Club has been appointed chief medical advisor of Active IQ. Dr ... More

The national governing bodies (NGB) for basketball, handball and volleyball have joined forces to call on UK Sport to ringfence at least 10 per cent ... More

British Basketball chair Nick Humby is stepping down as chair of the British Basketball Federation (BBF) after less than a year in the role. During ... More

Several stakeholders – including sportscotland and basketballscotland – have partnered up in an attempt to give the sport a shot in the arm ahead of ... More

Sheffield’s Olympic Legacy Park (OLP) – the largest London 2012 legacy project – has won £4.9m (US$6.5m, €5.9m) in infrastructure funding. The investment has been ... More

The British Basketball Federation (BBF) is exploring the idea of creating a central funding pot for the development of new facilities. Talking to Sports Management, ... More

Basketball’s governing body has set the ambitious target of growing the sport into the second-largest team game in Britain in terms of participation. The goal ... More

Sports Think Tank director Andy Reed has been appointed by the Sport and Play Construction Association (SAPCA) to oversee its public affairs activities. Reed – ... More

Stakeholders and members of the public will be able to have their say on the future of British basketball when a consultation is launched this ... More

A new £3.5m (US$4.9m, €4.4m) arena for British Basketball League (BBL) club the Sheffield Sharks has been approved for construction on the city’s Olympic Legacy ... More

Leicester Riders’ move to its new £6m (US$8.5m, €7.8m) arena is a “transformational” step for British basketball, according to chair Kevin Routledge. The British Basketball ... More

Commercialisation and a solid governance structure will be crucial for the future development of British basketball, according to the British Basketball Federation’s (BBF) new independent ... More

The newly-formed British Basketball Federation (BBF) has outlined its strategic priorities ahead of its induction to the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). The governing body is ... More

GB Basketball has secured an emergency £1.18m funding package from Sport England to support the Team GB elite teams. The funding will contribute to the ... More

The government’s high performance sport agency UK Sport is to reconsider its “no compromise” approach to funding elite sport. Speaking to the BBC, UK Sport ... More

Sport England has set out its "new, tougher" plans for the funding of six key sports as part of plans to ensure investment results in ... More

Sports ball manufacturer Molten is to renew its sponsorship of Basketball Ireland commencing in September 2012. The sponsorship deal sees the appointment of the Molten ... More