London United (basketball)

In 2006 they were elected into the professional British Basketball League to replace the London Towers as the sole representatives for the capital city.Jacks first step was to hire coach Tony Garbelotto to control the team on-court and bring in Chris Morris (who works closely with Tony Garbelotto running the highly successful Hackney Community College Basketball Academy programme based at SPACe) to run off-court operations.A mass influx of British players strengthened the ranks of United, with major signings including internationals Chris Haslam and Tarick Johnson.It was announced on 5 September 2007, just two weeks prior to the new season tipping-off, that London United's directors and the BBL had agreed to withdraw from the upcoming campaign.The Press Release stated that United's headline sponsor, MoneyGram, had endured financial difficulties of their own and were forced to withdraw their sponsorship.
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