Hoopsfix Podcast - British Basketball with Sam Neter

In Episode 63 of the Hoopsfix podcast we sit down with former England Senior international and 13-year pro, Mike Bernard.

Hailing from Manchester, Bernard hooked on to the Giants BBL team at just 16 years old, before going to the US for college and then having a pro career that saw him play in Greece, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, France, Cyprus, Slovakia - where he had his most productive years and won a championship - and the UK.

Having been involved with the Giants during their peak years in the mid-90s, and then joining them for their second incarnation in 2012, along with seeing both the England Senior National Team programme during what many consider a trying time, through to being called up to the re-birth of the Great Britain Senior Men's programme in 2006-7, Bernard has seen a lot of key stages of British basketball first-hand.

The 6'9" big man now coaches the next generation coming through at Myerscough College, heading up their girl's programme, whist assisting on the boy's side. 

Hear from Mike on:

• How he first started playing basketball, making the transition from cricket
• The impact Yorick Williams and Steve Brown had on him as a youngster
• Aspiring to play in the BBL 
• Moving to the US to play college ball at Coffeyville Community College
• The importance of the weight room to his basketball performance on the court
• His aggressive nature on the court, trying to dunk everything on everyone
• Trash-talking and the only player he ever talked with 
• Getting his first England Senior call up at 19 and his memories with the National Team
• The impact Laszlo Nemeth had on his career and why he was such a player's coach
• Joe White and his relationship with him
• The legendary Rough & Ready tournament and what made it so special
• What a talent Ajou Deng was
• The state of the England national team programme and how it compared to GB
• The recruiting process in college and which D1 schools were showing offering
• His standout memories from University of South Florida
• The invite to Milwaukee Bucks training camp that never came to fruition
• Winning a championship in Slovakia and almost being forced to miss the entire series
• His view on the BBL in the time between his debut in 1994 through to his retirement in 2015
• Manchester basketball as a whole and the different factions 
• And much, much more! 

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In Episode 62 of the Hoopsfix Podcast we sit down with the only British player to be drafted in the last decade, San Antonio Spurs draft pick Ryan Richards.

The Great Britain Senior international, originally out of Kent, was selected with the 49th pick in the 2010 draft, and though never ending up on the final roster in the NBA, has gone on to play all over the world in places ranging from Switzerland, to Iran, Mexico, Austria, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Greece, Poland, Lebanon and most recently the UK in the BBL.

Now 29 years old, he looks back on his career so far, from first picking up a ball through to signing in Spain as a 15 year old, the NBA draft process and the multitude of countries he has lived and worked.

In this 1 hour 45 minutes episode, hear from Ryan on:

• The decision to sign in Belgium this season
• How COVID-19 is impacting Belgium
• Having a stake in the Kent Panthers and the vision for the club
• Launching his own camp that had to be cancelled this summer
• How the game has evolved to give him greater longevity in his career
• What he does with his down time in-season
• His weight loss this off-season, dropping over 45lbs
• How he first got into basketball through his older brother
• The influence of the and-1 mixtapes
• The impact Joel Freeland and Ashley Hamilton had on his aspirations and early basketball development
• Playing for the England national team as a junior
• When the European clubs came knocking to try and recruit him
• The wooing process with Estudiantes and Gran Canarias
• Signing a professional contract as a teenager and having few people in England to turn to for advice
• His relationship with Rob Orellana and his mismanagement
• Playing in the Nike Hoop Summit as 15 years old
• Being hidden away after his performance at the Hoop Summit and drawing the attention of the likes of Coach K and Calipari
• Being take advantage of as a youngster and people looking out for their own self-interest
• How he was handled as a teenager affected his ability to trust people in his career
• The European route versus the American route for player development
• How much you can earn in Europe on a junior contract
• The NBA draft process and his performance at the Combine blowing up his profile
• Where he was on draft night and finding out he was selected by the San Antonio Spurs
• What happened the year after he was drafted and the rehab process
• Chasing stability and acceptance
• His relationship with the Spurs over the years and why he thinks he never ended up getting on the final roster
• Advice he would give to his younger self
• Whether or not he still thinks he could end up on an NBA roster
• Being embraced in Asia playing in Iran and his love for Persian culture
• The impact travelling has had on his own personal development
• His thoughts on the BBL and his experiences playing in it
• Whether or not he would want to invest in a BBL franchise
• Representing the GB Senior Men and if he aims to continue being involved
• And much, much more!

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In episode 61 of the Hoopsfix Podcast, the BBL All-Time leading scorer and second most capped England/GB player ever, Peter Scantlebury MBE joins us to talk his career.

Scantlebury won 9 titles as a player in a 23 year career in the UK that saw him miss just a single game due to injury, whilst representing his country 143 times. 

He finished his BBL career all over the all-time leaderboards in various different statistical categories, having played for the likes of Bracknell, Sunderland, Thames Valley, London Towers, Newcastle Eagles and Sheffield Sharks before going into coaching with Sheffield where he won the Trophy and Play-Offs title.

Scantlebury was awarded an MBE in 2002 for services to basketball

In this 1 hour and 45 minute episode, hear from Pete on:

• How he first got into playing basketball
• The role Kevin Hibbs had on his early playing days and how it came full circle later in his career
• Making the transition from national schools to national league
• Getting on the end of the bench of the senior national league side Guildford as a 17 year old with Sam Stiller
• The legendary runs at North London College where players honed their skills
• His memories of the formation of the BBL and what changed
• Balancing having a day job whilst playing basketball through a large portion of his career
• Winning the WICB tournament
• Individual accomplishments versus team success
• Every stop at each BBL club through his career
• Whether he has any regrets 
• The Bosman ruling and how it impacted the careers of British players
• Playing for England Seniors
• How Laszlo Nemeth changed the culture around the England National Team programme
• His memories of Terrell Myers' game winner at the buzzer to seal the league title for Sheffield
• Making the transition from playing to coaching with the same team from one season to the next
• Being called up as Head Coach of the 2006 Commonwealth Games squad
• His memories of the Commonwealth Games squad, practices and games
• Playing in the 1992 Olympic Qualifiers with Great Britain against numerous legends
• His thoughts on the current state of play in the BBL
• Favourite coach he has played under
• The toughest player he has had to guard
• What he wants his legacy to be
• And much, much more!

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For episode 60 of the Hoopsfix Podcast, we bring back Martin Henlan on the show to discuss the Mallin Review, an independent government-mandated review of basketball done in 2007, and the Basketball Players Association.

The Mallin Review - which you can read in full here - was an independent review of basketball in England performed by a group of business and sport high-flyers external to basketball - except for Henlan - aimed to discover what is holding basketball back and why it is not meeting expectations to ensure that the upcoming London 2012 Olympics would be capitalised on.

With basketball in disarray, it was requested by Sports Minister Richard Caborn and was the third review done on the sport in a period of around five years.

Endorsed by the likes of of NBA Commissioner David Stern, the CEO of Euroleague Jordi Bertomeu, and both Luol Deng and Pops Mensah-Bonsu, the Mallin Review group made a number of key recommendations - including major reform of the federation - most of which were disregarded by the administration at the time.

You can see Basketball England's then-Chair Terry Donovan's response to the review in the annual report, here.

Henlan, now a successful businessman working with media and rights, is a former England and Great Britain Senior international and 15 year pro, who first appeared on the Hoopsfix Podcast in 2017, which you can listen to here.

In this 1 hour 40 minute episode, hear from Martin on:

• Why the Mallin Review was set up 
• How the Mallin Review was the third independent review to be done on basketball in England within six years
• How he came to be involved as the only basketball person in the review group
• The level of gravitas the review had with the people who put their name to it, including former NBA Commissioner David Stern, the CEO of Euroleague Jordi Bertomeu, and both Luol Deng and Pops Mensah-Bonsu
• What the process was to put together the Mallin Review
• The findings of the review and the 5 core recommendations
• How the only group that didn't endorse the review were Basketball England 
• The response to the Mallin Review from Basketball England CEO Keith Mair
• How the calls to reform the governing body fell on deaf ears
• His thoughts on the London 2012 Olympics being a huge missed opportunity
• UK Sport's almost £10million investment into British Basketball in the run up to 2012
• How responsible UK Sport and Sport England should be held responsible for basketball's failures
• When he realised that none of the findings of the Mallin Review would be implemented
• The dominance of older white males in the upper echelons of basketball administration
• The lack of successful precedence for how basketball needs to be run in the UK to use as a barometer
• British Basketball not using basketball people in the majority of positions of seniority
• His current relationship with the sport in the UK and how he has become disconnected
• What it would take to re-engage him with basketball
• The need to use current and former players to help be the face of the sport
• The lack of growth in Basketball England's membership over the past 13 years
• Why the players association was set up in the early 90s
• How the players association was formed and how he ended up as CEO
• How many members the players association grew to and the things they were able to achieve
• Setting up an exhibition game with Magic Johnson's team of NBA players in London
• How the players association ended up dying after the Bosman ruling
• Whether he would ever get involved with the sport again
• And much, much more! 

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For Episode 59 of the Hoopsfix Podcast we sit down with former England and GB international, and ten-year pro Steve Hansell.

Hansell, now coaching Team Birmingham Elite in NBL Division 2, had one of the most successful playing careers of any player out of the UK, being signed to Italian side Kinder Bologna (literally) straight out of college - as they would win a Euroleague title weeks after him leaving Illinois State, before making a Euroleague Final Four with AEK Athens three years later.

Having first represented England as an Under-15 and making his last international appearance at 37 years old, he represented his country for over 20 years, having made two appearances in the NCAA Tournament (after back-to-back conference championships), winning the FIBA Saporta Cup title, back-to-back Greek Cup titles and a pro career that saw him play in Italy, Greece, Spain, Cyprus plus a couple of short stints in the BBL.

In this 90 minute episode, hear from Steve on:

• How he first started playing basketball at school
• Making his BBL debut at 16 years old with Birmingham Bullets
• The Birmingham basketball scene growing up
• Playing in the Nike All-American camp and adidas ABCD with future NBA stars such as Allen Iverson, Stephon Marbury and Ray Allen
• The recruiting process and when the letters started coming
• Attending Lincoln junior college for a year to get academically eligible
• Making the transition to NCAA Division 1 basketball at Illinois State
• The hardest practices he ever had to do
• Going back-to-back with conference championships to head to the NCAA Tournament
• His game against Tennessee to advance to the second round of the Tournament
• Being in Italy within 2-3 weeks of his college career ending, joining a Bologna side that would win a Euroleague title
• The level of the Italian league in the late 90s
• His first full rookie year in Italy and making the transition to being a pro
• The financial decision to play in Europe as opposed to the UK 
• His two short stints in the BBL with Birmingham and Brighton 
• Playing in Greece for AEK Athens and the fans 
• Making the Euroleague Final Four in 2001
• Playing under Dusan Ivkovic
• Competing against European legends such as Manu Ginobili and Dino Radja
• Being involved in the first years of the revival of the GB programme in 2006-07
• Seeing a young Luol Deng (in his second year in the NBA at that point) with GB
• Making the decision to retire and the difficulty of the transition to not playing anymore
• Coaching a young Myles Hesson and overseeing his development
• The likelihood of seeing the return of a BBL franchise in Birmingham
• And much, much more! 

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In episode 58 of the Hoopsfix Podcast, we go into the behind the scenes of running a BBL club with 5 different owners.

Paul Blake (Newcastle Eagles), Russell Levenston (Leicester Riders), Vince Macaulay (London Lions), Yuri Matischen (Sheffield Sharks), and Richard Mollard (Plymouth Raiders) jump on a Skype call to discuss the ins and outs of the league and running a franchise.

In this episode, hear from the owners on:

• The structure of BBL clubs and why they all have a foundation separate to the professional club
• The extent of most BBL clubs community programmes
• How revenues compare between the foundation and professional club
• Whether a BBL franchise could be successful without a grassroots programme
• Why the BBL gets a bad rep when it comes to junior development 
• Why more young British players don't see minutes in the BBL 
• The talent pathway and players going to college in the US 
• The BBL in its 'heyday' of the 90s and early 00s being on shaky unsustainable foundations
• The importance of teams having their own facilities and arenas with basketball at their heart
• How much more sustainable the league is today compared to previous years
• Why we haven't seen BBL teams signing young elite British talent to contracts
• Why some of the owners believe the majority of kids going to the US for college are wasting their time
• Fighting the perception of what the US college route is compared to staying in the UK
• The difference between going to the US for an experience or if it's because you want a basketball career
• How important and underrated BUCS could be for the development of British players
• The relationship between the BBL clubs and the federations
• The importance of a unified basketball structure in the UK
• How hard it is to sell tickets to live basketball games 
• Average attendances across the BBL 
• The important and need for good sales people to sell tickets to games
• How much of team's revenues are from ticket sales
• The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the BBL
• How decision making works with the all the BBL teams being shareholders of the league
• How teams are held accountable to the terms of the BBL operating license awarded by the BBF
• Why people who are investing in the BBL aren't primarily doing it for a profit
• The importance of media coverage and what teams and the league are doing to engage media
• The automated Keemotion cameras that are used to film games and the plans moving forward
• How close the league is to getting a TV deal
• BBL player salaries
• Player welfare and what is being done to protect players in the BBL
• Whether the owners would have any object to the players unionising 
• The London City Royals situation
• Changes that are being made to the franchise due-diligence process to ensure new high-risk franchises are not being admitted
• The cost of being a BBL franchise
• What teams get in return for the £150,000 franchise fee
• The incentive for a team like Solent Kestrels to join the BBL
• The average value of a BBL franchise
• What the 5-year vision is for the future of the BBL
• And much, much more!

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In Episode 57 of the Hoopsfix Podcast, we sit down with BBL Commercial Director Bob Hope, who was instrumental of the forming of the league in 1987.

Hope has been involved with basketball club and league administration/commercial since the 70s, and was one of the main drivers for the clubs breaking away from the federation to form the BBL in the late 80s.

Since then, he has served as the commercial director of the league twice, been the UK rights holder for basketball producer Molten Sports and founded Bob Hope TV Productions Ltd to provide live tv coverage of the sport (as well as other minority sports).

Hear from Bob on:

• How he first got into basketball as a youngster, making the switch from gymnastics
• His early days of getting into basketball administration with the Exhall Eagles in the Warwickshire league
• Founding and coaching the club Granwood (later Team Fiat and then Birmingham Bullets) and entering the National League in 1974)
• The inter-county tournament that used to run at Loughborough which was predominantly made up of National League clubs representing as counties
• The early signs of tensions between clubs and the federation - England Basketball - in the late 70s
• What happened at the 1979 England Basketball AGM where the clubs - led by Bob Hope and David Last - voted out Chair Ken Charles to be replaced with Harry Keats
• The negotiations that ensued and what happened for the BBL to be formed 8 years later with the clubs effectively breaking away
• Raising money and sponsorship for the 1980 and 1984 Olympic qualifying GB teams
• The formation of Basketball Marketing Ltd set up by England Basketball which Bob Hope became the Director of Sales and
  Marketing for as he retired from coaching
• How they could move over the sponsorship and TV contracts from Basketball Marketing Ltd to the BBL when the clubs broke away, with Hope joining the league in charge of commercial
• All the secretive meetings clubs were having as breaking away to form the BBL became a reality
• The differences between raising sponsorship in the early days of the BBL to now
• Forming Bob Hope TV Productions Ltd in 1988 to produce live basketball TV coverage for the likes of Channel 4, the BBC, ITV2 and Sky
• How he became the UK-rights holder for Molten Sports
• Re-joining the BBL in 2016 as Commercial Director after having been retired for 1 month
• Discovering the monetary value of the betting rights of the BBL - with over €16million (accidentally stated as €60million in the interview - 16million is the correct figure!) being betted on the league each year 
• How Premier League football is the biggest barrier to getting the BBL back on TV
• The issues the league is having with Keemotion and it not being up to broadcast standard at the moment
• How close the league is to signing a major commercial deal
• The importance of social media and digital for the BBL's growth and future sponsorship deals
• How COVID-19 has impacted the league and what it could mean for the future
• The growth of the league and aim to get to 16 franchises
• And much, much more! 

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In Episode 56 of the Hoopsfix Podcast we sit down with the first Englishman to play in the NCAA Final Four, Karl Brown, who went on to have a more than decade-long pro career in the BBL, being an All-Star multiple times and winning titles.

In this almost two hour episode, hear from Karl on:

• How he first started playing
• Making the choice between football and basketball
• How basketball kept him out of trouble
• How a connection with the Leicester Riders head coach landed him in High School in Florida at the age of 16
• The cultural shock of going to the US from the UK
• His awareness (or lack of) of any other British players trying to make it
• Not being heavily recruited out of High School
• Ending up at Chipola Junior College where he became one of the best JUCO players in the nation
• How he became such a good defensive player
• The recruitment process after his Sophomore year at Chipola and his five visits
• Why he chose Georgia Tech and his early memories of getting on campus
• How Coach Bobby Cremins only ended up recruiting him as JUCO player due to not being able to access High School Seniors
• His difficulty adapting to playing in the ACC 
• How his coaches started questioning whether they made a mistake recruiting him after his Junior year and tried to make him transfer
• Heading into his Senior year with a stacked squad featuring three future NBA draft picks in Dennis Scott, Kenny Anderson, and Bryan Oliver
• His memories of their magical Final Four run, game by game
• How his first professional contract offer was actually in the NFL with Denver Broncos
• Why he chose to come back and play in the BBL with Leicester
• How him and a number of other players boycotted the BBL All-Star game
• His toughest player to guard in the BBL
• What happened when he got suspended for the Play-Off semi-final and final
• The difference in BBL wages then compared to now
• How the Leicester Warriors ended up getting founded
• And much, much more!

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For Episode 55 of the Hoopsfix Podcast, we sit down with two-time BBL Coach of the Year and the first player in English basketball history to play for, and then coach the England National team, Mick Bett.

Bett, now a coach in Canada at Ridley College prep program and basketball commentator, is a multiple national-title winner as a player, 1983 Commonwealth games gold medalist, with 43 caps as a player, along with two-time BBL Coach of the Year along with 6 caps for England as Head Coach.

Note – the internet was particularly bad on this call and the mic at my end was not selected correctly as the input so the audio and video quality leaves a lot to be desired; hopefully should be better on the next one!

In this 90 minute episode, hear from Mick on:

• How he first got into playing basketball as a 12 year old
• Growing up with Paul Stimpson and him being the bar he was measuring himself against
• Starting out at Crystal Palace programme and it being his first exposure to a pathway
• Playing in the London league coming up and how strong it was
• Going to university at Borough Road before making the jump to the US for a year
• The Crystal Palace dynasty
• The greatness of Alton Byrd
• When Jimmy Guymon was coaching and had to step in as a player for one game
• Playing under Danny Palmer
• The legendary 2OT game of Crystal Palace against Maccabi Tel Aviv at the WICB Junior tournament
• Steve Bucknall and his talent growing up
• His favourite memories with the National Team
• Going up against the likes of Charles Barkley and Karl Malone ahead of the World University Games
• England beating Turkey two times out of three in 1986
• The British pathway and kids wanting to pursue college basketball
• How much British basketball misses Kevin Cadle
• The transition from playing to coaching
• Winning BBL Coach of the Year award in his first two seasons in the pros
• Being a basketball commentator and some of his top memories
• A story of a young Michael Olowokandi
• His all-time great British players
• The WICB tournament
• His 1987 title with BCP and the upset of Kingston in the Play-off final
• Memories of international hoops legend Nik Galis
• The best player he’s ever coached
• And much, much more!

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For episode 54 of the Hoopsfix Podcast, we took an in depth look at why more British basketball teams aren't competing in Europe, speaking with Russell Levenston to focus on the Leicester Riders' experience in the 2018-19 season when they played in the Basketball Champions League and FIBA Europe Cup.

Levenston is the Riders' Managing Director, having got involved with the club in 2007, becoming a co-owner of the club alongside Kevin Routledge.

The Leicester Riders' became the first BBL team to compete in Europe in over 11 years when they entered the Basketball Champions League qualifiers in 2018-19, going 0-2 against Danish powerhouse Bakken Bears to drop down into the FIBA Europe Cup where they were unable to pick up a win in six attempts.

Before the Riders, it was Guildford Heat in 2007-8 that last competed in Europe, in a move that almost ended up bankrupting the club. But the UK has a rich history of British teams playing in Europe, most notably in the 1995-1996 BBL season there were no less than six teams competing on the continent - why is this no longer happening?

In this 1 hour and 15 minute episode, hear from Russell on:

• His background and how he ended up at the Leicester Riders
• Why the Riders wanted to go into Europe
• The cost and extra budget required to be able to compete on the continent
• How they funded the cost 
• Media coverage of their European experience and how hard it was to generate interest
• How they approached roster make up and why continuity was a focus
• Some GB stars the Riders were close to signing prior to their European campaign
• Fan interest, the challenge of mid-week games and the need to educate fans
• The grueling schedule and balancing Europe with BBL games
• How injuries plagued the team but the team was able to remain competitive
• If they lost money on entering the European competition
• Why more teams aren't competing in Europe compared to years past
• The biggest learnings the Riders are now implementing in their domestic programme
• Whether the Riders have plans to re-enter European competition
• The impact of COVID-19 on the BBL at the moment 
• Who he thinks will be the next BBL team in Europe
• Whether or not he can see a situation where we end up with a EuroLeague franchise in London
• And much, much more!

Follow @RidersMD on Twitter and Instagram @RidersMD. 

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