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BBA Logo Competition - Final Round
June 12, 2020
The BBA has reached the Final round of the BBA Logo competition with its' FINAL FOUR
Close to 40 entries were submitted and the BBA Executive were able to narrow the entries choices to four. It was good to see the variety and the talent shown by both fans and the membership.
Feel free to fill out the form. The deadline for voting is Friday, June 19.
Click to access form (a valid email address is required)
CBC President confirms all CBC events cancelled
May 30, 2020
CBC President Glyne Clarke indicated that FIBA has mandated that all championships this year including those hosted by the CBC be suspended.
Clarke explained that going forward they would monitor closely what is happening around the world because even though they are planning to have those tournaments played sometime next year, there were no guarantees that the host countries would be ready.
Clarke who is also chairman for the FIBA Americas Competitions Commission noted that among the events called off this year were the Men & Women's CBC championship which is a qualifier for the 2023 FIBA AmeriCup, the Under-15, 17 and 18 Central Baskets for junior boys and girls.
Create a new BBA logo and win $200
April 15, 2020
The BBA Executive Committee will give members and non-members a chance to win $200 by helping us create a new logo for our Association. Simply come up with a design digitally or freehand and email it to us.
Color scheme has to be either of the following: Red Navy white or Pink Navy white
Submit all entries to: bermudabasketball@gmail.com Deadline: Friday, May 1, 2020
Write BBA Logo competition as the subject. Attach photo or diagram in jpeg or pdf format and Include your Full name and a contact number. Reminder that design has to be in color using the colour schemes indicated above. We will not accept black and white designs.
HOF nominees who defined Basketball in this century
April 06, 2020
Four players who defined basketball this century —Kobe Bryant, Tamika Catchings, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett — make up one of the most-anticipated player classes ever.
Kobe Bryant -18-time NBA All-Star and five-time NBA champion
Tim Duncan - 15-time NBA All-Star and three-time NBA Finals MVP
Kevin Garnett - 15-time NBA All-Star and nine-time NBA All-Defensive First Team selection
Tamika Catchings - 10-time WNBA All-Star and four-time Olympic gold medalist
Kobe Bryant/Patrick Baumann posthumously inducted into 2020 Hall of Fame.
April 05, 2020
Kobe Bryant, one of the game's most beloved athletes and longtime FIBA Secretary General Patrick Baumann will be posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
The two are among the nine honorees to be named as finalists in the Class of 2020, which also includes Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Eddie Sutton, Rudy Tomjanovich, Tamika Catchings, Kim Mulkey and Barbara Stevens.
This year's distinguished class will be enshrined in Springfield, Massachusetts on Saturday, August 29, 2020.
Tokyo 2020 Olympics postponed to 2021 due to coronavirus
March 24, 2020
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) made that decision to postpone the 2020 Olympics until 2021 over coronoavirus concerns.
In a statement made by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Games will be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020, but no later than summer 2021, to safeguard the health of athletes and everyone involved in the Olympics. The sporting event will continue to be called Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020
Niagara College Annual Basketball tournament cancelled
March 23, 2020
The Niagara College Annual Men & Women's Basketball Tournament scheduled for May 15-17 has been cancelled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tournament organiser, Niagara's Men's Head Coach Mike Hurley hopes to run it again next year, bigger and better to make up for this year. The tournament, which was scheduled to be held at the Niagara College Welland Campus Athletic Centre, was in it's 17th year of existence.
The BBA's Men's National Program was set to use this tournament as a final evaluation of players before team selection for the 2020 CBC Pre-qualifying tournament this summer. At this time, even that tournament is in jeopardy of being cancelled.
Borislav Stankovic, FIBA Secretary-General Emeritus, dies at the age of 94
March 21, 2020
Borislav Stankovic, the FIBA Secretary-General Emeritus, died at the age of 94. He served as FIBA's second Secretary General from 1976 to 2002 and was a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He had been FIBA's Secretary General Emeritus since 2003.
During his time at the helm of FIBA, he is credited with countless achievements, the most significant of which was working closely with the former NBA Commissioner David Stern in the late 1980s-early 1990s to bring world basketball into the modern era. This resulted in having, for the first time ever, professional players participate in top-level national team competitions (Olympic Games, FIBA Basketball World Cup), starting at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.