You can be all for the culture but if your business no longer exists, you can't do anything for the culture. Got to find a model that works to pay you and your bills.

Is anyone in disagreement that basketball in the UK needs *radical* change? Remember that, for whatever the future version of the British basketball federation looks like.

Any strategy to grow the sport that doesn't act as a facilitator and enabler for clubs will fail. The goal should be to create an environment that clubs can thrive.

Missed out the part that I said Crystal Palace desperately needs the refurb - so don't want this to read as though I'm not in support of the closure. But of course, does raise the issue of how few options there are in London. Crazy for a global city. swlondoner.co.uk/sport/25092…

🇬🇧 Hoopsfix/CTN Summer '26: 23/05 - Hoopsfix Basketball Development Conference 24/05 - Hoopsfix All-Star Classic 07/06-05/07 - Hoopsfix Pro-Am Summer League 04/07 - Le Clash (Paris) 09/07 - NBA 3X Trafalgar Square 09/07 - NBA VIP Party 18/07 - The One Euro Finals 19/07 - Jayson Tatum @ Foot Locker 19/07 - Jayson Tatum Clinics 25/07 - Foot Locker Home Court MCR 22/08-23/08 - Subway Skills Challenge @ Ball Out Stick a fork in me...

Perhaps. But maybe if the entire sport wasn't reliant on government hand outs and there was an attempt to properly commercialise the game, we could do what is in the best interest of the sport instead of bending over backwards to appease funders.

There are people in the home country associations that will tell you the merging into a single unified British basketball governing body is impossible due to devolution. You can send them this and tell them they are lying.

£22 to attend, with the NGB actively contacting clubs encouraging them to put more players forward for it.

No, I am no longer a part of it. Mark Clark and I resigned from the HCA-led process regarding the future of a British basketball federation a month ago due to being unaligned on the direction of travel.

I thought “exposure” camps were a new low, but advertising a £65k+ pa job, that someone is currently doing voluntarily to ensure there is a team on the floor in the next window - without speaking to them first - is almost as low as you can get.

£240 for the privilege to represent your country.

Big day- signed a year lease on our first office/studio space in East London… Won’t just be our home - the aim is for it to become a hub for the London basketball creator community 🇬🇧🏀

Great to hear @denk_tweets talk at Google HQ this morning on the future of media & journalism 👌

Another one 🇬🇧

I remember that version of the website in 2000, and leaving 3mb clips downloading while I ate breakfast to go back and watch when I’d finished. Insane how far technology has come.

This interview was a whole 14 years ago - just three years in to Hoopsfix and I was describing it as a long journey already …little did I know 🫠

PlayZones are the exact opposite of everything a basketball player would want. And I'd argue are the opposite of what most kids would want - no-one wants locked, bookable spaces in public parks, let alone ones that are MUGAs. Awful initiative & huge waste of money.

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. 🧱🇬🇧🏀