It is 10 o'clock on Sunday morning on the 17th of February and I am in the car park of the Amaechi Centre in Manchester. I have just finished the Sunday Breakfast show on BBC Radio Manchester and I am here to see Game 1 of the England Basketball U16 Men's National Finals.

So yesterday, I check out the basketball schedules and I decide that a road trip was in order. The Sheffield Junior Sharks were playing 2 Cup Semi-Finals against Manchester/Trafford at the EISS, Sheffield and I really wanted to see these games. However The Cheshire Jets were also playing at home against the Leicester Riders in the BBL Trophy and the situation there was really interesting.

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The British Basketball League is bidding farewell to one of its biggest legends as 6'7", 290lbs, Billy Singleton retires from playing the game.