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Five days.  Only five days  left  f r om  the beginning of the Eurobasket 2015  which the defending champion France will be hosting  in  the city of Lille . The group stage will take place in four different European countries, one for each group (France, Croatia, Germany and L atvi a) from the 5 th  to the 11 th  of September and the final stage of the championship will be in Lille   from the 12 th  to the 20 th  of September . With   all  preparation games  finished and teams getting ready for the real competition,  “ only five days ”  seems like ages without basketball .  So  let’s   take a look back  and see how  the preparation games could affect the tournament. Coaches and players are always talking about how important is having a good preparation and  repeating  that preparation is key for a success in the championship .  Avoid injuries, impro...

GB 75-71 Israel

The 2013 Eurobasket tournament is taking place in three weeks in Slovenia with the first games taking place on September 4th. Having won two Eurobasket's in a row, Spain go into the tournament as heavy favourites with France a close second, GB sadly are one of the least fancied teams in the tournament with many of the big names unavailable. Meanwhile Spain, France, Greece and Lithuania are all favourites in their respective groups in what should be an exciting tournament. The odds: Spain look like they could make it a hat-trick of Eurobasket tournament wins with odds of 9/4 at William Hill and Coral. France meanwhile are 5/1 with William Hill which are the best odds you'll get for the team which features NBA star Tony Parker who will be their main man at the tournament. You can also get odds of 5/1 for Greece with Ladbrokes and YouWin and they may be the outside tip to cause a little upset. Other than that Lithuania are 14/1 with YouWin, Russia are 20/1 with Will...

GB Basketball are back! The Copper Box will be hosting a pre-tournament friendly against Puerto Rico ahead of Eurobasket 2013. It hasn't been a straight forward journey into the fixture with NBA stars Joel Freeland and Luol Deng unavailable, Byron Mullens and Ben Gordon once again failing to show and Pops Mensah-Bonsu also becoming unavailable. This will leave GB's squad heavily reliant on Andrew Sullivan, who is the most experienced member of the squad. New coach Joe Prunty has been thrown into the deep end with many household names not in the squad he must cope with what he has. The likes of Orlan Jackman - who recently departed the London Lions, Liam Potter, Jamell Anderson and Ali Fraser will be looking to impress. There will be a lot riding on the fixture with funding for the sport over the next few years up in the air and based on performance. Puerto Rico has a strong team and are currently ranked 4 places above GB in the FIBA World Rankings. The game takes...

Team GB have announced Matthew Harber as the new U15 girls' Development Squad Head Coach. We recently spoke to the Loughborough Student Riders Head coach just before the start of Women's Eurobasket and he predicts big things in the future: *This audio has been partially edited with questions removed, the answers that were given were not edited themselves.

Image copywright of FIBA. Souce: Eurobasket Site . The Women's Eurobasket tournament starts today with teams from every corner of Europe competing for the Eurobasket crown. France, Russia and Turkey all have good chances to win the tournament but we will as always be focusing on Team GB. The team will need to give it 100% with a group including the tournament hosts France, Serbia and Latvia. The betting odds on success for Team GB are slim, with Bet365 giving the team the WORST odds of getting through any group. But with much determination and a boom in British basketball over the last twelve months, this tournament gives GB basketball the chance to shine. Here are the list of all the GB players: Dominique Allen Rose Anderson Kimberley Butler Ella Clark Stefanie Collins Stephanie Gandy Chantelle Handy Georgia Jones Johannah Leedham Azania Stewart Lauren Thomas-Johnson Rachael Vanderwal 11 of the 12 players are England national players with one from Scotl...

Johannah leedham is one of her idols Harriet Ottewill-Soulsby is no ordinary teenager. A Team GB hopeful, with a dream of playing the in the big time. Coached by Matt Harber at Loughborough University, the 17-year-old will be moving to America to pursue her dream - after playing for Team GB at youth level in August. Harriet has been speaking to us ahead of the Women's Eurobasket and while she just missed the cut this time, she will almost certainly be representing Great Britain in Olympics and Eurobasket in the near-future. She said: 'The highlight of my year was receiving a call-up to the GB first team, we played against Greece and I scored two points in front of our home crowd - it was amazing.' 'At the moment I'm focusing on moving from Loughborough to America where I'm to play basketball, in the long term I'm hoping to represent Britain at the Olympics.' 'I'm working on staying in shape and developing my skills even further, ...