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Bonkers ending for OT ✅
Even more bonkers ending for 2OT ✅
Fascinating battle for 🏆✅
Epic Dave rant? ✅✅✅
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UK Basketball Watcher
@UKBballWatcher
Watcher of Pro Basketball in the UK
United Kingdom Katılım Aralık 2021
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@hcshaw13 May not change anything, but may make us all feel a bit better.
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It’s a good job there’s no chance of reputational damage to the league
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Let's encourage people to click the link and watch the game...by not telling them what the halftime score is 🤦♀️
Super League Basketball@SprLeagueBballM
Action packed first half in the SLB Cup Finals! 🍿 @LondonLions 🆚 @mcrbball 📲 Tune in live on @dazn dazn.com/en-GB/fixture/… #BritishBasketball #StandTall
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If the Lions think the Cup Final is being played at the Copper Box, my prediction is that they won't win the Cup.
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@saintpat1962 @hcshaw13 OK.
But it was unusual at the time in the autumn that there was a reported pay dispute and then their pay was published for the first time in the appendix of the operating rules.
That then felt like SLB didn't want those previous referees back.
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@hcshaw13 @UKBballWatcher This is now my understanding & that is ludicrous in the extreme.
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British basketball's civil war appears to be over, with the BBF set to go into administration.
Basketball England expected to take the reins and British refs allowed back into FIBA fold.
No official confirmation yet but could come as soon as today.
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@hcshaw13 @saintpat1962 The article above is about when British referees/British Federation were suspended by FIBA. That's passed.
I thought that separately SLB refs were on "strike" about their pay & conditions. While some have returned, maybe the ones who haven't aren't yet satisfied? That's a guess.
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@saintpat1962 the tweet above is from November, apparently the refs have been available and willing since then..
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Sarunas Jasikevicius:
"If Manchester is going to replace EuroLeague atmospheres, where's the logic?"
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@rhunt321 Bizarrely you seem able to buy a ticket for either date here
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Hilariously Lions now appear to have rescheduled the Surry game to 19 March and have cancelled tickets bought for 20 March
Good job guys
Joe Honour@TheBlindPigPod
The @LondonLions to play at the NCC 20/3 & potential to play at Crystal Palace in the @SprLeagueBballM Semi Final home game! I was critical of how this was handled previously - great to see more notice, option to buy tickets and alternate facilities ✅
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I can't be the only one who had forgotten there was a Wednesday night game this week - why announce this a few minutes before tip off rather than a few days before?
Super League Basketball@SprLeagueBballM
International break is over. It means only one thing - SLB is back! Watch live and for free on @DAZN 📲: dazn.com/en-GB/home/1gh… #BritishBasketball #StandTall
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@saintpat1962 @LondonLions I'd assume the opposite - that people can only eat the food on offer from the Copper Box outlets.
All about the £££ at the Copper Box.
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If anyone from @LondonLions could confirm that people can leave the venue between the womens and mens games on Wednesday, it would be really good.
I'm presuming we can, as people will need to eat, but would like it confirmed.
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@J301567561 @bballengland @gbbasketball @J_T_93 @JohnHobbsTB No, it will be this. This sounds right by Rob.
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Rob Hunt (90+6)@rhunt321
@UKBballWatcher @bballengland @gbbasketball @J_T_93 @JohnHobbsTB Liquidators have a legal obligation to raise as much cash for the creditors as possible Social media and websites have a value. They legally can’t just give them away
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@UKBballWatcher @bballengland @gbbasketball @J_T_93 @JohnHobbsTB It’s about minimising legal liability from GB basketball creditors … clear blue water and all that.
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Very very strange that all the social media and website content for this game is on the @bballengland accounts when there's @gbbasketball accounts that could be used instead.
Surely the administrator could have handed over passwords? @J_T_93 @JohnHobbsTB
Basketball England 🥇🥈@bballengland
Let’s go, GB 🇬🇧
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@JohnHobbsTB @bballengland @gbbasketball @J_T_93 If they don't wanna hand over the website I kinda understand that but the social media handles just seems like such a small deal.
The Scottish & Welsh Associations must be really mad that everything GB is being published by England!!!
Thanks for the reply though, appreciated!
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@UKBballWatcher @bballengland @gbbasketball @J_T_93 Unsure to be honest as I left my freelance role with the BBF in June. But in previous experiences with firms in liquidation, it could be that the company that is handling the liquidation/administration process has access to GB’s social media accounts and won’t hand it back.
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@TheLionsRoar25 @londonlionsw This is tokenism of the highest order. If they were serious about International Women's Day, the Women would be playing at 1930 and the Men would be shunted to 1530 on a Wednesday afternoon. Or the games would be closer together, so Glads weren't having to depart at a silly time!
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If you possibly can, please come and support the @londonlionsw womens team as well as the mens! They are in play-off push mode and really need our support.
London Lions Basketball@LondonLions
DOUBLE HEADER ACTION! 🚨🏀 For the first time this season, in celebration of International Women's Day, @londonlionsw will play their home game against the @Cal_Gladiators on Wednesday 4th March at the Copper Box Arena. 🦁📦 The men will then face @mcrbball at 7:30pm in what is going to be an SLB Cup Finals preview! 👀🏆 Catch the action for just £10 and experience one of the biggest matchups in UK basketball. London Lions Women: 🆚 @Cal_Gladiators 📅 Wednesday 4th March ⏰ 3:30pm tip-off 📍 Copper Box Arena London Lions Men: 🆚 @mcrbball 📅 Wednesday 4th March ⏰ 7:30pm tip-off 📍 Copper Box Arena #LondonLions #WeAreLondon
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"Let's celebrate International Women's Day by getting our Women to play at half three on a Wednesday afternoon, when anybody who works can't attend the game anyhow."
London Lions management, probably.
(If they were serious about IWD the Men would play at 1530 and the Women 1930)
London Lions Basketball@LondonLions
DOUBLE HEADER ACTION! 🚨🏀 For the first time this season, in celebration of International Women's Day, @londonlionsw will play their home game against the @Cal_Gladiators on Wednesday 4th March at the Copper Box Arena. 🦁📦 The men will then face @mcrbball at 7:30pm in what is going to be an SLB Cup Finals preview! 👀🏆 Catch the action for just £10 and experience one of the biggest matchups in UK basketball. London Lions Women: 🆚 @Cal_Gladiators 📅 Wednesday 4th March ⏰ 3:30pm tip-off 📍 Copper Box Arena London Lions Men: 🆚 @mcrbball 📅 Wednesday 4th March ⏰ 7:30pm tip-off 📍 Copper Box Arena #LondonLions #WeAreLondon
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@Prophesy_Scout That's a failure of the BBF though for granting the league a maximum of 6 import players/team. It should be 4 (or ideally 3!) so there's always a British qualified player on court. That reduction would also allow the development of more Brits, which is meant to be what a NGB does
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@Prophesy_Scout As long as SLB-M remains a TV league (as evidenced by giving the games away for free despite having to pay for production costs) then they are going to prioritise American players (who pull in transatlantic TV viewers) over domestic players who don't pull in as many TV viewers.
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Wish we had this regularly for the best players in our ecosystem beside shipping them off to a prep school. You can't tell me Obinna Ekufu wouldn't be impactful in some way on an SLB court considering his defensive talent.
Spel@spel81
🇫🇷 2009-born prospect Nathan Soliman will turn pro and continue the season in Nates in France's Pro B league. Nathan is considered one of the best prospects of his age group, not only in Europe.
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@TheBlindPigPod @rhunt321 While Joe has made clear what's happening to the Playoff SF, Lions haven't published this publicly themselves. The post tonight was vague on April fixtures too.
Please don't take this as a snub Joe, but if Joe can publish this information comprehensively, Lions can do that too.
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The @LondonLions to play at the NCC 20/3 & potential to play at Crystal Palace in the @SprLeagueBballM Semi Final home game!
I was critical of how this was handled previously - great to see more notice, option to buy tickets and alternate facilities ✅
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@rhunt321 @TheBlindPigPod They then published this nearly an hour later. The post is a bit vague about April and May games though.
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London Lions Basketball@LondonLions
London Lions have today confirmed the final outstanding home fixtures and venues for the remainder of the 2025–26 Super League Basketball season, following the resolution of venue availability. Supporters can now plan ahead, with tickets on sale for all confirmed games. The newly confirmed fixtures are as follows: On Wednesday 11 March 2026, the Lions will host Surrey 89ers at the Copper Box Arena. The game, which had previously been unscheduled, will tip off at 7:30pm, with tickets on sale now. Due to venue availability constraints, the Lions’ home game against Surrey 89ers on Friday 20 March will now take place at NCC Fitness, rather than the Copper Box. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30pm, and tickets are on sale now. Any supporters who purchased tickets for the originally scheduled game at the Copper Box will be refunded and will need to repurchase tickets for the NCC Fitness venue. The Lions will return to the Copper Box on Friday 3 April 2026, hosting Caledonia Gladiators in another previously unscheduled fixture. Tip-off is set for 7:30pm. #LondonLions #SLB
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@rhunt321 @TheBlindPigPod I'm guessing you got this from a mailing list email Joe? Again, that's absolutely cool, but the club themselves should be publishing this publicly first (like on the website or socials) and not on a closed list first, like a mailing list. It should be somewhere everyone can read.
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