From an outsider’s perspective, British basketball has never had it so good. It is firmly established as the second most popular participation team sport in the country with more than 1.5 million people playing at least twice a month. In December 2024, the sport received a combined £4,475,000 in two grants by UK Sport and Sport England for the next four years, three times the amount it received during the previous Olympic cycle.
There has also been good news on court, with Great Britain’s women qualifying for this summer’s European Championship thanks to a resounding win against Denmark this month, while the men will join them if they win one of their two remaining qualifiers against the Netherlands and Czech Republic next week.
