The UK Basketball Hub Podcast: Recent Episodes
UK Basketball Hub
Former Sheffield Sharks, Brighton Bears and London Towers player and Glasgow Rocks player and coach Sterling Davis discusses his time working in Scotland, the teams move to the Emirates Arena and being coached by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!
Former Scotland youth coach and the first international ever to land a head coaching position in NCAA Division I basketball. In this edition we speak to Donna Finnie about being a trailblazer for International coaches and helping to develop a generation of Scottish basketball talent.
London Lions and British Basketball League legend Vince Macaulay discusses his time learning the game with the late, great Jimmy Rogers, meeting Michael Jordan and developing a film making career, owning and coaching a top level basketball team and the recent investment in the London Lions franchise.
Former England player, Basketball Scotland Director of Basketball and GB Basketball board member Sadie Mason MBE discusses her playing career, the governance of sport in general and over 40 years in and around the sport!
Falkirk Fury legend John Bunyan discusses founding the club back in 1992, working and helping develop Scottish and GB basketball talent, and coaching with Scotland at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
GB Basketball coach Marc Steutel discusses his time working in Newcastle, leading out GB for the first time in February and his new role as Head Coach of Teesside Lions.
GB Wheelchair Basketball captain Abdi Jama discusses winning the World Championships, representing Team GB at the 2012 London Paralympics and the one remaining medal that he is aiming to get next year!
Rob Paternostro discusses his career in the States, becoming the most successful coach in Leicester Riders history and reveals the all-time starting five from his time as Riders coach!
Former London Leopards coach Billy Mims talks developing a team from the bottom, becoming the first Leicester Riders coach to win silverware and whether Ian Wright and Lennox Lewis could've played basketball...!
Former Birmingham Bullets head coach Mike Finger discusses winning the BBL play-offs, rooming with NBA winning coach Nick Nurse at university and tells us what he's up to some 20 years after leaving the UK.
In this episode we speak to GB star Temi Fagbenle about the 2012 Olympics and her All Star performance at EuroBasket 2019, plus playing in the WNBA and growing up learning another sport!
Sheffield Hatters legend Betty Codona discusses how she founded the club 59 years ago, coaching a team, the development of women's basketball, getting an OBE and raising a basketball family!
BBL and England legend Peter Scantlebury looks back on his career, getting and MBE and coaching England to a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games.
British Basketball star Rachael Vanderwal discusses playing at the London 2012 Games, reaching the semi-finals of Eurobasket and winning a Commonwealth Games silver medal!
British Basketball legend Steve Nelson discusses growing up in the Midlands, playing in Portsmouth, a golden run with the Worthing Bears and having basketball playing kids!
Former BBL, NBL, GB and England player Colin Irish speaks about his career in his first British media interview in 18 YEARS!
Former Newcastle Eagles and Sheffield Sharks player Andrew Bridge discusses how he got into basketball, developing a winning mentality and how his Commonwealth Games medal broke!
Former BBL player and coach Paul Douglas talks about his career in British basketball, playing in the north-east, coaching in the Midlands and Middlesbrough and how Birmingham can get a BBL side.