Tag: Super League Basketball (SLB)
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Nedas Cholevinskas Chose to Stay
At 19, Nedas Cholevinskas logged 633 minutes in Super League Basketball last season. No other under-21 came close. Only one other player even broke 300 minutes, and most barely cracked double digits. Three of the league’s top five under-21s for playing time were 89ers — Cholevinskas, Di-Jani Parkinson, and Timothy Nwanko. Player Team Minutes Played…
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Kevin Allen Is the Structure
Some players give you structure. Kevin Allen is the structure. Four games into the season, Caledonia are learning how to make that work. Allen’s arrival has defined their offence — first as a seductive answer to their scoring needs, then as a challenge to fit him in, and now as something they might be able…
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What To Do With the London Lions?
Note: This article has been updated to clarify that the spending thresholds refer to net player pay, and to include the approximate gross pay figures given in the SLB operating rules. The London Lions have built a team that fits neither competition. In the SLB they’re steady; in EuroCup they’re struggling to stay afloat. The…
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Talent Is Everywhere, Opportunity Isn’t
British basketball has no problem getting kids onto the court. Sport England’s Active Lives Children and Young People survey shows basketball is the second most-played team sport among children, helped by outdoor courts — varied in quality but found nationwide — that make it easy to pick up a ball and play. The challenge comes…
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Bristol Are Trusting the Game Itself
Bristol have started the season with a different kind of rhythm. Three SLB games so far have produced four different leading scorers — Zach Anderson in the opener, Cameron Holden and Jonathan Brown tied as joint top scorers in game two, and Will Yoakum leading in game three. This is a roster built on balance,…
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Sheffield Are Betting on Continuity
Atiba Lyons has been head coach in Sheffield since 2008 — seventeen years on the sideline, a rare constant in British basketball. In a league defined by churn, where imports cycle in and out and rosters are rebuilt every summer, his presence has given the Sharks a stability most clubs can’t match. Continuity is the…
