Essex Rebels guard Megan Haines has been named the inaugural winner of the Molten Most Improved Player of the Year (MIP) award after a breakout campaign for Ashley Cookson’s side in the Women’s British Basketball League. A new title established this season, the MIP award is given to a player who has shown the most …
Ahead of an eagerly anticipated Women’s EuroBasket 2023 campaign in Slovenia next month, Chema Buceta has confirmed the 15-player roster that will enter training camp this week in Manchester in preparation for the showpiece competition – with nine WBBL stars selected, as well as two coaches from the league. The London Lions, Leicester Riders, Caledonia …
An all-time great of British Basketball, a focal point of the most-dominant season performance in WBBL history by the London Lions and former Olympian Jo Leedham-Warner, has today confirmed her retirement from professional basketball. The 34-year-old British legend concludes her career after an epic debut season in the WBBL with Mark Clark’s Lions, where she …
BBL and WBBL Legends Julius Joseph and Stef Collins have selected their four-player teams for the FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup Qualifying competition in Romania on 4 and 5 June, following a four-day invitational camp in Manchester. The GB Men face Spain and Turkey in their pool games with the Women playing Hungary and Denmark on …
The WBBL award season opens with the announcement of the Molten WBBL British Team of the Year, as voted by WBBL Head Coaches, with the team dominated by London Lions after they assembled the most formidable array of British talent that the WBBL has seen – four of whom make this team – and remain …
Seven WBBL stars have been confirmed as part of Head Coach Chema Buceta’s squad for this week’s EuroBasket Women double-header as the team met for camp in Manchester. GB welcome Greece to the National Basketball Performance Centre on Thursday before travelling to Tallin for the window’s second fixture against Estonia on Sunday. Buceta’s squad is …
Georgia Jones says Great Britain Women are feeling ‘positive’ following the draw for the Olympic Qualifying Tournament groups. GB face a trip to Foshun in China in February to take on the host country, Spain and Korea following Wednesday’s draw. A place at Tokyo 2020 is at stake with the top three teams going through, …
Great Britain Women’s coach Chema Buceta has announced his provisional 14-player squad for the FIBA Women’s EuroBasket 2021 qualifiers against Poland and Belarus. The team travel to Walbrzych for the opening fixture of the competition on Thursday 14 November to face Poland, prior to hosting Belarus at the National Basketball Performance Centre in Manchester on …
Great Britain centre Temi Fagbenle has been recognised for her amazing contribution at the FIBA Women’s EuroBasket 2019 by being named to the Tournament All-Star Five. Fagbenle helped Great Britain to make history as they reached the Quarter-Finals and then Semi-Finals for the very first time – as well as punching a ticket to the …
Great Britain couldn’t sign off their best ever performance at a FIBA Women’s EuroBasket with a maiden medal at the event, but now leave Belgrade proud of an amazing and historic success. Missing out on the bronze medal to local favorites Serbia who secured a comfortable 81-55 success, Chema Buceta and his team can reflect …