With just under a month to go until the opening night of the 2018-19 BBL season, we take a look at how the 12 rosters are shaping up.
You can keep up-to-date with the rest of the summer’s ins and outs with our updated roster tracker below and look back on the 2017-18 tracker here.
Leeds Force withdrew from the league with London City Royals the newcomers to the BBL with a couple of coaching changes taking place including Paul James’ swapping of Worcester for Plymouth.
:
unless stated
II – changes made after season start
Bristol Flyers
HC: Andreas Kapoulas
: Daniel Edozie, Marcus Delpeche,
, Jordan Nicholls, Chris Taylor (all re-signed)
:
(Cheshire Phoenix),
(Texas Tech University University, NCAA DI),
(Kongsberg Miners, Norway), Lewis Champion (Team Northumbria, NBL D1),
(East Tennessee State, NCAA DI)
II: Mike Vigor
(returning in December)
:
(Kirchheim Knights, Germany Pro A), Leslee Smith
(Iserlohn, Germany Pro-B), Malcolm Delpeche (WWU Baskets Münster, Germany Pro-B), Roy Owen (Bristol Flyers II, NBL D3), Jordan Davis (Albacete, Spain LEB Silver)
II:
Cheshire Phoenix
HC: Ben Thomas
Returning: Lewis Jones, Luke Gosney
Ashton Khan
(Halifax Hurricanes, Canada NBL), Louis Sayers (Plymouth Raiders),
(London Lions),
(Georgia State, NCAA DI), Sol Rolls-Tyson (Sheffield Sharks),
(Nebraska Omaha, NCAA DI),
(unattached),
(Memphis, NCAA DI)
II:
:
(Bristol Flyers),
(El Salvador), Orlan Jackman (London City Royals), Devan Bailey (Marmande, France NM1)
II:
Glasgow Rocks
HC: Darryl Wood
Returning: Gareth Murray, Kieron Achara, Ali Fraser, Jonny Bunyan (all re-signed)
:
(Lourdes, France NM1),
(George Washington, NCAA DI),
(Cleveland State, NCAA DI),
(Vosges, France NM1), Chris De Souza (Leeds Force), Murray Hendry
II:
:
(Panionios, Greece A1), Kofi Josephs (Boncourt, Switzerland),
(CAB Madeira, Portugal),
(not returning)
II:
Leicester Riders
HC: Rob Paternostro
:
,
,
, Andy Thomson, Rema Lascelles (all re-signed), Kiefer Douse
(2-year deal last summer)
: Conner Washington (Naevsted, Denmark),
(Texas Tech University, NCAA DI), Jamell Anderson (La Roda, Spain LEB Silver),
(UC Riverside, NCAA DI)
II:
:
(both
Shane Walker (Bahrain), Chris Tawiah (Oberwart, Austria)
II:
London City Royals
HC: Junior Williams
: Will Neighbour (Plymouth Raiders), Elvisi Dusha
(Cheshire Phoenix),
(Hemel Storm, NBL D1),
(Petro de Luanda, Angola), Orlan Jackman (Cheshire Phoenix), Ashley Hamilton (Manresa, Spain LEB Gold), Matthew Bryan-Amaning (Al Rayyan, Qatar)
II:
Outs: N/A
II:
London Lions
HC: Vince Macaulay
: Justin Robinson,
Joe Ikhinmwin, Paul Guede, Jerelle Okoro, Abraham Ekperuoh (all re-signed)
Jordan Spencer (Augustana, NCAA DII),
(Vytautus, Lithuania),
(Arantia, Luxembourg)
II:
Outs:
II:
Manchester Giants
HC: Danny Byrne
Returning: Callum Jones (2-year deal last summer), Ingus Bankevics (re-signed)
:
(ASD Pallacanestro Molfetta, Italy),
(Chicago Steam, USA ABA),
(Girne, Cyprus),
(BBC Bascharage Hedgehog, Luxembourg), James Jones (coaching, Canada), Barry Webster (Italy)
II:
:
,
(Uzice, Serbia), Jordan Whelan (Worcester Wolves)
II:
Newcastle Eagles
PC: Fab Flournoy
: Darius Defoe, Jamal Williams
, Kai Williams
, Drew Lasker
(all re-signed) Themba Yabantu (returning)
:
(Kosice, Slovakia), Kyle Williams
(Norfolk State, NCAA DI),
(North Carolina-Asheville, NCAA DI),
(sat out 2017-18), Eddie Matthew (Plymouth Raiders)
II:
:
(Chartres, France NM1),
(not returning),
(Bosco Zagreb, Croatia)
II:
Plymouth Raiders
HC: Paul James
: Zak Wells,
(both re-signed)
: Josh Wilcher
(Itzehoe, Germany Pro B),
(Iserlohn, Germany Pro B), Shawn Shelton
(Eastern New Mexico, NCAA DII),
(Charleston Southern, NCAA DI), Declan Soukup
(Reading Rockets, NBL D1),
(Sam Houston State, NCAA DII),
II:
Outs: Louis Sayers (Cheshire Phoenix), Will Neighbour (London City Royals), Eddie Matthew (Newcastle Eagles)
II:
Sheffield Sharks
HC: Atiba Lyons
: Mike Tuck,
, Rob Marsden, Marko Backovic,
(all re-signed)
: Matthew Don (Real Murcia, Spain LEB Silver),
(Duquesne, NCAA DI), Matthew Martin (Danum Eagles, NBL D3)
II:
:
(not returning), Zach Gachette, Eddy Brownell (not returning)
II:
Surrey Scorchers
HC: Creon Raftopoulos
Returning: Tayo Ogedengbe, Josh Steel, Jordan Williams (all re-signed)
:
(unattached),
(Coastal Carolina, NCAA DI),
(Enosis Neon Paralimni, Cyprus)
II:
:
(En Baskets Schwelm, Germany Pro-B),
(Rostock, Germany Pro-A),
(Worthing Thunder, NBL D1)
II:
Worcester Wolves
HC: Ty Shaw
Returning:
:
(Rasta Vechta II, Germany Regionalliga), Jordan Whelan (Manchester Giants), Terrel Martin-Garcia (Adelphi, NCAA DII),
(Melilla, Spain LEB Gold),
(Kapfenberg Bulls, Austria),
(Stjarnan, Iceland),
(Centro Deportivo Rivadavia de Mendoza, Argentina), Adam Thoseby
(Sydney Kings, Australia)
II:
:
(Lourdes, France NM1),
(Beroe, Bulgaria),
(not returning), Rob Gilchrist (Lulea, Sweden)
II:
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