Belfast set for league basketball
Irish basketball hopes to have a franchise in the British League by 2012
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Irish basketball hopes to have a franchise in the British League by 2012
Great Britain’s men’s and women’s teams will both play off for fifth and sixth place at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Birmingham.
The 12,000-seat Basketball Arena has had its external cladding completed and the Handball Arena’s main structure is now in place.
Great Britain Basketball has opted out of bidding for the temporary arena which will house the London 2012 Olympic Games basketball tournament.
GB basketball star Luol Deng is unable to prevent his Chicago Bulls side from losing to the Cleveland Cavs in the NBA play-offs.
Great Britain’s men’s and women’s basketball teams will play double-headers in Liverpool and Birmingham as part of their Euro qualifying campaigns.
The Basketball Arena is rising out of the ground with the first of the venue’s 20 steel arches already lifted into place.
The contract is to provide the modular accommodation for the Arena, including temporary offices and athletes’ changing rooms, as well as press and media accommodation.
The United States are drawn in the same group as Iran for the 2010 basketball World Championship.
Exeter’s Judith Hamer, a wheelchair basketball player, says more disabled athletes should take up paralympic sports.