High Tea Hoops

Maryam Naz is an NBA journalist at Sky Sports, and previously covered football at The Guardian. Brian and Maryam chat about how she got into journalism and covering the NBA, how the NBA is growing their audience in Europe following the NBA Paris Game, and how Sky Sports is helping grow basketball in the UK.

On this episode of Tea Time, Brian Bosché is joined by British hooper and creator, Jesse Chuku. Jesse was one of the top basketball players growing up in the UK, and had a successful college career in the States at Lehigh University and then professionally in Greece, Spain, and the BBL. Since he stopped playing professional basketball last year, Jesse has become a content creator and amassed more than 3M TikTok followers and 620K YouTube Subscribers. They chat about what it was like growing up in the UK playing basketball, the cultural differences he experienced playing in the States, getting fame as a content creator, the TikTok Creator Basketball Tournament at the GG3x3, and advice for other athlete creators.

On this episode of Tea Time, Brian Bosché is joined by Deric Eze, Founder of DezeReels. DezeReels features the best British Basketball content in the UK, and Deric has become well known in the basketball community for his video work in the BBL, NBL, and basketball leagues around the country. They chat about why he started DezeReels, what he's learned covering basketball across the UK, how social media is building community for the next generation of hoopers, and how he thinks basketball can continue to grow in the UK.