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3 months ago

“THeRE’s PlENty Of OUtdOOr CoURtS” they said. Oh, you mean those ones that are really football pitches with a couple of basketball hoops in them (that are usually non regulation and awful to play on, but that’s a whole other issue)…death to MUGAs. ☠️

If you want to reach the populations that other sports don’t, then build dedicated basketball spaces. 🇬🇧🏀

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6 months ago

It was backed by the NBA Commissioner, the CEO of the Euroleague and British stars such as Luol Deng & Pops Mensah-Bonsu, but the 2007 Mallin Review fell on deaf ears…just like every other report/inquiry that has ever been done into British basketball.

They all find the same thing - the sport’s fragmented nature sets it up to fail. For the first time, it feels like we have a chance to do something radical, start again and get it right.

Comment Mallin below and I’ll DM you the full review from 2007 📥

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7 months ago

Forget about national league for the vast majority of junior clubs - I mean, do people REALLY wanna be travelling for hours to play a game? Build that local infrastructure so you can get competitive games within your area and save national league for the actual elite. 🧱🇬🇧🏀

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7 months ago

I hate comparing anything in the UK to football, as football is entirely in a league of its own in every single facet…that said, I’ll have a go on this one - people think that sports owning venues means nothing if grassroots participants aren’t accessing it - not at all, because it usually is part of the financial engine that funds the grassroots. It’s hard to get details on exact figures on what is extracted and what goes where, but according to Companies House, Wembley National Stadium Ltd turned over £97million in 2023/24 with an operating profit of over £30million. Imagine if the British basketball governing body owned a venue spitting out £30million in profit a year?! Absolute game changer.

Every major event you see at Wembley - whether it be a music concert, the NFL or wrestling - is all helping line the FA’s pockets for them to then reinvest back into football.

Pretty smart business model if you ask me and exactly why basketball needs to own its own venues. 💸🇬🇧🏀

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7 months ago

I’ve spent an increasing amount of my time over the last few years looking at basketball facility options.

Gone past this empty warehouse a few times and decided to give them a call to find out the cost. £800k rent per year plus £300k business rates (with rates relief for leisure spaces I think this would go down to £190k). lol.

I ended up having a good chat with the lettings manager, who has been doing his job 20 years. He said he’s had an increasing number of calls about industrial spaces for sport, particularly padel, but it’s near impossible to make these spaces work for leisure in London.

Aside from planning issues around switching industrial space to leisure, he said the costs are completely prohibitive. Might have a better chance outside of London.

He said the only real chance in the capital is to find a council who owns property/land to support/subsidise.

Not sure why I’m sharing other than to spotlight just how difficult it is to overcome the facilities problem that basketball faces, and the only way in the long term we’re gonna get close is with governmental support or very deep pocketed investors who don’t need a return any time soon. 💭🇬🇧🏀

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7 months ago

Pretty much all of basketball’s issues in the U.K. at some point in the chain come back to the lack of purpose built and/or club owned/controlled facilities 🧱🇬🇧🏀

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7 months ago

There can be no culture without history 📚🇬🇧🏀

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7 months ago

I’d like to see a national facilities plan to raise hundreds of millions to build purpose built basketball facilities in every region of the country - then we may actually be able to get into growth mode instead of survival mode 📈🇬🇧🏀

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7 months ago

The ‘Back British Basketball’ campaign in the summer of 2010 was my first real exposure of the national team side of things - a massive, massive, learning experience that laid the foundation for the shaping of my worldview on the British game. 🧠🇬🇧🏀

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7 months ago

Yes, there are hundreds of thousands (or over a million if you believe the government figures) of basketball players and NBA consumers in the U.K. - but there is a total disconnect between them and the domestic game & the national teams. The economy around British basketball will grow exponentially when that base becomes consumers of the domestic product. A lot easier said than done, but it should be the goal. 🇬🇧🏀

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7 months ago

A lot of people who hold opinions about what British basketball needs to be doing have never actually tried to operate in the space. Try and do what you are being critical of first and then have an opinion - you will soon realise it’s not as easy as you think it is. 🇬🇧🏀

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