Birmingham Bullets

Birmingham Bullets

BBL defunct team
color1 = white
color2 = red
name = Birmingham Bullets

imagesize =
league = British Basketball League
founded = 1974
folded = 2006
history = Coventry
1974-1980
Team Fiat
1980-1982
Birmingham Bullets
1982-2006
arena = North Solihull Sports Centre
city = Birmingham, West Midlands
colours = Red and White

The Birmingham Bullets was a basketball team competing in the British Basketball League, the top level men's basketball league in the United Kingdom. However, the club resigned from the league in the summer of 2006 and soon after went into liquidation and no-longer exist as a basketball franchise. Many of their players formed an exodus to the nearby Leicester Riders who also compete in the British Basketball League.

The future

With Worcester Wolves stepping up to replace the Birmingham franchise in the BBL in 2006, [cite web| author = Tom Guest | title = Wolves win place in British League | url = http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/sport/wnsportwolves/wnsportwolvesnews/display.var.867552.0.28606_wolves_win_place_in_british_league.php | year = 2006 | accessdate = 2006-12-02 | publisher = Worcester News | date = 2006 ] many former Bullets fans have adopted the Wolves as their new team, but basketball's future in the Midlands took a turn for the better early in 2007. The British Basketball Association, a proposed professional league set to rival the BBL, announced Birmingham Athletics as their second franchise for the 2007-08 season, [cite web| author = PawPrint | title = BBA bag Birmingham | url = http://www.pawprint75.co.uk/News/bba_birmingham.htm | year = 2007 | accessdate = 2007-02-19 | publisher = PawPrint | date = 2007 ] on February 19, while a month later on March 23, the BBL announced that a new franchise had been awarded to Birmingham, [cite web| author = Collin Tattum | title = Basketball team to replace Bullets | url = http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/sport/tm_headline=basketball-team-to-replace-bullets%26method=full%26objectid=18797522%26siteid=50002-name_page.html | year = 2007 | accessdate = 2007-03-24 | publisher = Birmingham Mail] also for the 2007-08 season, called Birmingham Panthers.

ee also

*Birmingham Athletics
*British Basketball League

References

External links

* [http://www.birminghambasketball.co.uk/ Official Birmingham Bullets website]
* [http://www.wolverhamptoncollege.ac.uk/sports/basketball/ West Midlands Academy]


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