Sports Minister Stephanie Peacock has vowed to protect the future of British basketball

Sports Minister Stephanie Peacock says she is “deeply concerned” by the governance crisis in British basketball that has seen the men’s national team frozen out of the world game.

The sanction was announced on Monday by international governing body Fiba, which has suspended the British Basketball Federation’s membership after electing to intervene in its long-running and bitter legal row with Super League Basketball.

As well as preventing the men’s GB team from competing in international competition, the move has also removed the BBF’s powers to award licences to domestic competitions – something it had refused to do for SLB this season.

“I am deeply concerned by the news that the British Basketball

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