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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, he…
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This is the first piece in a season-long Youth Pathway series tracing how British basketball develops its players — from park courts to the professional game, and the forces that influence players along the way. courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/07/t...
Newcastle built their summer around size. What they’ve become is something different — small, fast, constantly shifting. Eight games, seven starting line-ups. courtvision.co.uk/2025/11/21/n...
Newcastle Keep Searching
Few teams in the SLB have shifted more in the opening weeks than Newcastle. Line-ups, roles and rotations have changed almost game by game. Through eight fixtures they have already started seven di…
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November 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Newcastle built their summer around size. What they’ve become is something different — small, fast, constantly shifting. Eight games, seven starting line-ups. courtvision.co.uk/2025/11/21/n...
The Youth Pathway series continues with a look at how basketball’s academies compare to rugby union and netball. courtvision.co.uk/2025/11/18/i...
Is Basketball’s Academy System Being Left Behind?
Every sport needs a bridge between education and the professional game. When government funding arrived through the Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence (AASE) in 2004 — and later its suc…
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November 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The Youth Pathway series continues with a look at how basketball’s academies compare to rugby union and netball. courtvision.co.uk/2025/11/18/i...
Newcastle have one of the most distinct identities in the SLB. They switch, pressure and isolate. It doesn’t always click, but it always makes sense. courtvision.co.uk/2025/11/14/i...
Inside Newcastle’s Small-Ball Identity
Small-ball isn’t new. For nearly a decade it has shaped modern basketball — faster line-ups that trade size for shooting, spread the floor, and switch defensively. Newcastle have taken it in a dist…
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November 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Newcastle have one of the most distinct identities in the SLB. They switch, pressure and isolate. It doesn’t always click, but it always makes sense. courtvision.co.uk/2025/11/14/i...
Shooting is one skill that scales. The higher the level, the more it matters. Matthew Ragsdale plays like he knows it. courtvision.co.uk/2025/11/07/m...
Matthew Ragsdale Knows What He Is
Some skills fade as the competition gets tougher — size evens out, speed meets its match, athleticism stops being an advantage. Shooting isn’t one of those skills. It scales. The higher the level, …
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November 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Shooting is one skill that scales. The higher the level, the more it matters. Matthew Ragsdale plays like he knows it. courtvision.co.uk/2025/11/07/m...
College basketball isn’t just an American story anymore. NIL has redrawn the global map — and it’s starting to pull Europe’s next generation away from home. courtvision.co.uk/2025/11/04/e...
Europe Is Losing Talent to the NCAA
College basketball is no longer just an American story. It is redrawing the global map. In the last two years, U.S. programmes have begun to lure Europe’s best young talent with offers that combine…
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November 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
College basketball isn’t just an American story anymore. NIL has redrawn the global map — and it’s starting to pull Europe’s next generation away from home. courtvision.co.uk/2025/11/04/e...
Manchester were denied entry to the Basketball Champions League by the BBF. They built for it anyway. courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/31/b...
Becoming the Manchester They Want to Be
Manchester Basketball began this summer with a plan that reached beyond domestic competition. Their intended entry into the Basketball Champions League was blocked when the British Basketball Feder…
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October 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Manchester were denied entry to the Basketball Champions League by the BBF. They built for it anyway. courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/31/b...
Pat Robinson plays one way — downhill. Cheshire have built a roster that lets him do it again and again and again. courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/24/p...
Pat Robinson’s One Thing
Before the season, Cheshire’s guard hierarchy looked set. LaQuincy Rideau was back — returning after a season away, a homecoming for the leader of the Cheshire team that had pushed the 777-era Lion…
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October 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Pat Robinson plays one way — downhill. Cheshire have built a roster that lets him do it again and again and again. courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/24/p...
At 19, Nedas Cholevinskas was the SLB’s youngest regular last season — and its most convincing argument for trusting youth. courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/21/n...
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 digit…
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October 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
At 19, Nedas Cholevinskas was the SLB’s youngest regular last season — and its most convincing argument for trusting youth. courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/21/n...
Kevin Allen bends everything around him — but are Caledonia finding a version of him that brings everyone else in? courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/17/k...
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 seduc…
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October 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Kevin Allen bends everything around him — but are Caledonia finding a version of him that brings everyone else in? courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/17/k...
London have built a team that doesn’t belong anywhere — too strong for the SLB, too weak for EuroCup. courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/10/w...
What To Do With the London Lions?
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 same roster that never looked like losing against Bris…
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October 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
London have built a team that doesn’t belong anywhere — too strong for the SLB, too weak for EuroCup. courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/10/w...
This is the first piece in a season-long Youth Pathway series tracing how British basketball develops its players — from park courts to the professional game, and the forces that influence players along the way. courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/07/t...
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, he…
courtvision.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
This is the first piece in a season-long Youth Pathway series tracing how British basketball develops its players — from park courts to the professional game, and the forces that influence players along the way. courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/07/t...
In Bristol, it’s not about who takes the shot — it’s that every player can. courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/03/b...
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…
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October 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
In Bristol, it’s not about who takes the shot — it’s that every player can. courtvision.co.uk/2025/10/03/b...
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September 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I've set up Court Vision in more places this season so you can follow wherever suits you best. Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram or Facebook. Please like/follow to help get the ball rolling on the new accounts: linktr.ee/courtvisionuk
Seventeen years of Atiba Lyons. Nearly half the roster returning. Sheffield are doubling down on continuity in a league built on churn. courtvision.co.uk/2025/09/26/s...
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 ro…
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September 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Seventeen years of Atiba Lyons. Nearly half the roster returning. Sheffield are doubling down on continuity in a league built on churn. courtvision.co.uk/2025/09/26/s...
The SLB tipped off its second season entangled in the very structures it hoped to escape — from recognition battles to referee appointments. courtvision.co.uk/2025/09/20/a...
A Ball in the Air
The opening night of the second season of the SLB was meant to be about the basketball. Six teams took the floor with refreshed rosters and a summer of preparation, eager to prove the league was mo…
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September 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The SLB tipped off its second season entangled in the very structures it hoped to escape — from recognition battles to referee appointments. courtvision.co.uk/2025/09/20/a...
Court Vision just got a makeover! The focus was on clearing out the clutter to make the site look better (especially for mobile) as well as updating the colour scheme to make everything easier to read: courtvision.co.uk
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August 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Court Vision just got a makeover! The focus was on clearing out the clutter to make the site look better (especially for mobile) as well as updating the colour scheme to make everything easier to read: courtvision.co.uk
There wasn’t meant to be a league. But there was—barely, brilliantly, defiantly. The full story of the SLB's first season:
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It’s Messy and It’s Real
Back in June, there wasn’t supposed to be a league at all. The British Basketball League had collapsed. The British Basketball Federation (BBF) had revoked the league licence. And suddenly, the spo…
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May 19, 2025 at 6:27 AM
There wasn’t meant to be a league. But there was—barely, brilliantly, defiantly. The full story of the SLB's first season:
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No flash. No margin for error. Leicester won with fit, familiarity—and faith in Paternostro basketball.
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Eye of the Storm
Since 2008, Rob Paternostro has been the heartbeat of Leicester Riders. Seventeen trophies. Seven Coach of the Year awards. Nearly two decades at the helm. Under his watch, Leicester haven’t just w…
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May 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
No flash. No margin for error. Leicester won with fit, familiarity—and faith in Paternostro basketball.
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The dynasty days are gone. The ambition never left. This year, Newcastle reminded us who they are.
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The Return of Ambition
For years, Newcastle were the centre of British basketball. Trophies weren’t celebrated—they were expected. The Fab Flournoy era built a dynasty. But dynasties fade. And for a while, the Eagles fel…
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May 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The dynasty days are gone. The ambition never left. This year, Newcastle reminded us who they are.
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Sheffield battled for rhythm early, but it was belief—raw and loud—that changed the game:
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Game Notes: Sheffield Hatters 83 – 73 Oaklands Wolves
For most of the first half, Sheffield were chasing. Oaklands had rhythm, confidence, and a twelve-point lead to show for it. Sheffield needed to change something. What they found—right before halft…
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May 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Sheffield battled for rhythm early, but it was belief—raw and loud—that changed the game:
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It all comes down to Leicester vs Newcastle in the SLB Play-off Final. Two of British basketball’s most historic clubs, this season built on contrasting styles. A thread on what to watch for today:
May 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
It all comes down to Leicester vs Newcastle in the SLB Play-off Final. Two of British basketball’s most historic clubs, this season built on contrasting styles. A thread on what to watch for today:
A season built on control, not flash. London didn’t make a single knockout final but they still won the Championship. courtvision.co.uk/2025/05/12/n...
Not Pulling Away Yet
Last year’s Lions were a juggernaut—stacked with EuroCup talent and a budget no one else could touch. This year’s team was different. Still among the league’s top spenders but no longer operating i…
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May 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A season built on control, not flash. London didn’t make a single knockout final but they still won the Championship. courtvision.co.uk/2025/05/12/n...
They had the talent to win it all and the volatility to blow it. Sheffield’s season was brilliant, brittle and almost beautiful. courtvision.co.uk/2025/05/11/a...
Almost Beautiful
Rickey McGill made his Sheffield debut with just over a minute left in the first quarter against Cheshire. The Sharks trailed 11–15. On his first possession, he assisted a Jamell Anderson three. On…
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May 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
They had the talent to win it all and the volatility to blow it. Sheffield’s season was brilliant, brittle and almost beautiful. courtvision.co.uk/2025/05/11/a...
They’ve found identity on the court. Off it, Manchester are still searching for who they want to be. courtvision.co.uk/2025/05/06/t...
The Hard Part Starts Now
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 …
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May 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
They’ve found identity on the court. Off it, Manchester are still searching for who they want to be. courtvision.co.uk/2025/05/06/t...
Nedas Cholevinskas gave Surrey a moment that will last. But what comes after magic? courtvision.co.uk/2025/05/06/r...
Romance Needs Roots
It was one of those moments you watch sport for. A 19-year-old GB guard, playing in his first SLB season, erupting in the Cup semi-final—knocking down threes at a rate he hadn’t shown all year to t…
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May 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Nedas Cholevinskas gave Surrey a moment that will last. But what comes after magic? courtvision.co.uk/2025/05/06/r...