
A new team, an old city, and a crowd that hasn’t quite arrived yet. That’s Manchester Basketball’s debut SLB season. After the Giants disappeared, a new club was rushed into being—launched just in time for the season, with a roster built on potential rather than fit, and a name that felt more like a placeholder

With the launch of Super League Basketball (SLB), British basketball has entered a new era. Alongside a fresh identity, the SLB’s reintroduction of a salary cap aims to bring greater parity across teams, challenging franchises to adapt as they balance continuity and reinvention. This inaugural SLB season reveals significant variation in the percentage of minutes