{"id":20591,"date":"2024-08-01T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T18:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/dan-clark-ex-great-britain-basketball-international-launches-surrey-89ers\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T18:50:09","slug":"dan-clark-ex-great-britain-basketball-international-launches-surrey-89ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/dan-clark-ex-great-britain-basketball-international-launches-surrey-89ers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Clark: Ex-Great Britain basketball international launches Surrey 89ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clark and Jackson announced the new brand in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/surreyniners\/status\/1818615245885042923\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">a statement<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> on their account on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The move will ensure elite level basketball can continue in Surrey and Guildford, remaining at the Surrey Sports Park &#8211; home to the Scorchers since 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Basketball League Ltd (BLL) had its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cd11d7qdddgo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">contract terminated<\/a> last month after the British Basketball Federation (BBF) received information on its finances that suggested BLL was &#8220;no longer able to carry out its functions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BLL had operated the men&#8217;s game since being awarded a 10-year licence by the sport&#8217;s governing body in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A three-year interim licence has since been awarded to Premier Basketball Ltd, formed by a consortium of British clubs which includes the 89ers, Clark confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are very much part of elite basketball in the UK and very much looking forward,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clark confirmed Lloyd Gardner would continue as head coach of the team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cv2gdy1pmmzo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark and Jackson announced the new brand in a statement, external on their account on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The move will ensure elite level basketball can continue in Surrey and Guildford, remaining at the Surrey Sports Park &#8211; home to the Scorchers since 2015. Basketball League Ltd (BLL) had its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20593,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20591\/revisions\/20593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}