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.

£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. 🧱🇬🇧🏀

Exactly this. A lot of things being done at the moment to make it appear as though basketball is being helped, without actually doing what basketball really needs.

Very weird argument. History is not contingent on success, history is history. And British basketball has plenty of it.

Let's hear em...

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. 💭🇬🇧🏀

We’ve (@hoopsfixfdn) submitted a funding application a couple of times with bi-partisan support from all Home Countries the BBF the pro league the archive at Uni of Worcester to build a basketball-reference.com style database of British bball but it keeps getting rejected 😭