British Basketball Association
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The British Basketball Association, or BBA for short, is a proposed professional basketball league in the United Kingdom.
Backed by a group of American and UK investors, including NBA legend A.C. Green, technology entrepreneur Ken Olisa and Wall Street veteran Ron Scott. The BBA will go head-to-head with the long-established British Basketball League to try and establish itself as Britain's top professional basketball league. The foundations of the new league are still being put into place, it was announced that the inaugural season was to tip-off in November 2007 but this did not occur and the two clubs, Coventry Crusaders and Birmingham Athletics, that the BBA had signed-up to compete have continued to play in the semi-professional English Basketball League. However, it is rumoured that BBA management has opted for a full ownership model with league games to begin in November 2008. A nationwide grassroots development programme was also allegedly due to commence in November 2007 but nothing has been announced.
The revised strategy of an owner/partner model providing central funding to partner clubs is said to have been chosen in consultation with founder, Ed Tapscott, former CEO of the Charlotte Bobcats NBA franchise.
