Clubs deeply unhappy with governing body’s handling of power transfer and are threatening to set up own league
From an outsider’s perspective, British basketball has never had it so good. It is firmly established as the second most popular participation team sport in the country with more than 1.5 million people playing at least twice a month. In December 2024 the sport received a combined £4,475,000 in two grants by UK Sport and Sport England for the next four years, three times the amount it received during the previous Olympic cycle.
There has been also been some good news on court, with Great Britain’s women qualifying for this summer’s European Championship with a resounding win over Denmark earlier this month, while the men will join them if they win one of their two remaining qualifiers against the Netherlands and Czech Republic next week.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/feb/16/hoop-dreams-in-peril-as-british-basketballs-crisis-reaches-boiling-point
Author : Matt Hughes
Publish date : 2025-02-16 08:00:01
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