Fiba Agrees Super League Basketball Can Run Sport In Britain

Super League Basketball has reached statement pinch basketball's world governing assemblage Fiba to oversee nan the sport's home competitions successful Great Britain - lifting nan prohibition connected its men's nationalist team.

Last month, Fiba suspended nan British Basketball Federation (BBF) complete governance issues and barred nan men's squad from world competition.

A Fiba taskforce had been group up successful August to analyse "regulatory non-compliance" wrong British basketball.

In April, nan BBF awarded a 15-year licence to tally a caller master men's title - nan Great Britain Basketball League - to GBB League Ltd (GBBL).

The BBF said GBBL, a consortium led by nan American businessman Marshall Glickman, would supply £15m backing successful nan first 2 years.

However, nan existing 9 SLB clubs claimed nan tender process tally by nan governing assemblage was "illegal and unjust" and refused to subordinate nan caller league.

Fiba said successful a connection it has now entered into a "direct nickname agreement" pinch SLB to "ensure nan stableness and continuity of nan top-tier men's hoops successful Great Britain" during nan play of nan BBF's suspension.

"This statement provides a model for nan organisation and governance of home competitions while safeguarding regulatory integrity," said nan statement.

"Fiba, done nan task force, will proceed to activity intimately pinch BBF and each applicable stakeholders, including UK Sport and nan UK Government, to support BBF successful becoming a self-sustainable organisation and to guarantee nan semipermanent stableness and maturation of men's hoops successful Great Britain."

Fiba's determination intends a prohibition connected Britain's men's squad competing connected nan world shape has been lifted.

Interim independent chair of SLB Sanjay Bhandari said it had been a "challenging play for nan sport" but was pleased to person "reached a solution that gives our clubs nan assurance they deserve".

"Fiba's nickname is transformative and intends that our plans to thrust SLB guardant arsenic an ambitious, high-growth sports organisation tin advancement astatine pace," he said.

"We look up pinch excitement arsenic we activity intimately pinch FIBA, UK Sport, and nan UK Government to guarantee nan athletics achieves nan occurrence it deserves crossed each areas."