Sam Neter 💸🏀

💰 Exploring the court from a different angle
📦 Unpacking the game behind the game
🏀 Life's work @Hoopsfix / @HoopsfixFdn
👁 Building in public

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

You can be all for the culture but if your business no longer exists, you can't do anything for the culture.

Got to find a model that works to pay you and your bills.

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

Is anyone in disagreement that basketball in the UK needs *radical* change?

Remember that, for whatever the future version of the British basketball federation looks like.

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

Any strategy to grow the sport that doesn't act as a facilitator and enabler for clubs will fail.

The goal should be to create an environment that clubs can thrive.

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

Missed out the part that I said Crystal Palace desperately needs the refurb - so don't want this to read as though I'm not in support of the closure.

But of course, does raise the issue of how few options there are in London. Crazy for a global city.

https://t.co/2W2kIrRF2F

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

🇬🇧 Hoopsfix/CTN Summer '26:

23/05 - Hoopsfix Basketball Development Conference
24/05 - Hoopsfix All-Star Classic
07/06-05/07 - Hoopsfix Pro-Am Summer League
04/07 - Le Clash (Paris)
09/07 - NBA 3X Trafalgar Square
09/07 - NBA VIP Party
18/07 - The One Euro Finals
19/07 - Jayson Tatum @ Foot Locker
19/07 - Jayson Tatum Clinics
25/07 - Foot Locker Home Court MCR
22/08-23/08 - Subway Skills Challenge @ Ball Out

Stick a fork in me...

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

@TheHoopGenius 😭😭😭😭😭😭 how have i never seen this loooool

[Mark Woods @markbritball]

@SamNeter You can still have nation-specific work based on local needs. But that doesn’t prevent a singular overall body that handles commercial, strategy, pathway creation and all back office, removing all the needless duplication while still allowing each nation to justify SC funding

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

Perhaps.

But maybe if the entire sport wasn't reliant on government hand outs and there was an attempt to properly commercialise the game, we could do what is in the best interest of the sport instead of bending over backwards to appease funders.

[dandayr @danayrmrbball]

@SamNeter Is it that simple though? Sport Scotland do not show ice-hockey as a recognised Scottish national governing body that they directly invested/ funded.
However NGB BasketballScotland is funded by them. Apples and Oranges?

https://t.co/67ErNGMriJ

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

There are people in the home country associations that will tell you the merging into a single unified British basketball governing body is impossible due to devolution.

You can send them this and tell them they are lying.

[Ice Hockey UK @IceHockeyUK]

🌎 HISTORIC MERGER: UK ICE HOCKEY IS TOGETHER AS ONE

Ice Hockey UK announces the completion of an historic merger that unifies England Ice Hockey, Scottish Ice Hockey and IHUK into a single, governing body for the sport.

ℹ️ More details ➡️ https://t.co/BCSJf8kGnX

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

£22 to attend, with the NGB actively contacting clubs encouraging them to put more players forward for it.

[UK Hoops Fan @HoopsFanUK]

@SamNeter I’ve seen dozens of ‘invited to exposure camp’ posts all across socials… please tell me the kids didn’t need to pay to go to these?
If so, that’s a thoroughly exploitative way of raising money off of the hopes of kids to make GB that likely never stood a chance

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

No, I am no longer a part of it. Mark Clark and I resigned from the HCA-led process regarding the future of a British basketball federation a month ago due to being unaligned on the direction of travel.

[UK Basketball Watcher @UKBballWatcher]

@SamNeter Sam as you're part of the Wider Consultation Group that's liaising with the new management structure supporting the GB Basketball programmes, can we assume that you weren't consulted on this? Or were you just ignored? Both are bad.
https://t.co/AXh3QWz4Di

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

I thought “exposure” camps were a new low, but advertising a £65k+ pa job, that someone is currently doing voluntarily to ensure there is a team on the floor in the next window - without speaking to them first - is almost as low as you can get.

[Basketball England @bballengland]

GB Basketball is seeking a General Manager (Performance) to provide overall strategic leadership to the senior and junior national teams teams, with particular focus on 3x3 LA28 OIympic qualification.

Find more more and apply: https://t.co/OLbkI4RHVn

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

£240 for the privilege to represent your country.

[Basketball England @bballengland]

The England rosters for the U17 Home Nations Invitational this weekend are here 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🔥

Read more here > https://t.co/0FMG1zkHHF

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

First ever homegrown British guard to make the W, btw.

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

She chose coming home to play in the WBBL over Oregon and has now made the WNBA.

Unbelievable story.

Congrats @hollywinterburn 👏

[Hoopsfix Women @HoopsfixWomen]

✅ @hollywinterburn makes the @AtlantaDream roster ahead of a rookie season in the @WNBA!

📷 Dale Zanine

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

Big day- signed a year lease on our first office/studio space in East London…

Won’t just be our home - the aim is for it to become a hub for the London basketball creator community 🇬🇧🏀

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

Great to hear @denk_tweets talk at Google HQ this morning on the future of media & journalism 👌

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

Another one 🇬🇧

[Hoopsfix @Hoopsfix]

Amari Williams gets upgraded to a multi-year deal with Boston! 👏 👏👏🇬🇧🏀☘️

Via @TheSteinLine

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

I remember that version of the website in 2000, and leaving 3mb clips downloading while I ate breakfast to go back and watch when I’d finished.

Insane how far technology has come.

[Ballislife.com @Ballislife]

The NBA website in the 90s

800 x 600 resolution
Blue hyperlinks
WAV & Real audio clips
Tiny AVI & MOV videos
Chat rooms & transcripts
The Global section
Penny’s mom's meatloaf recipe

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

This interview was a whole 14 years ago - just three years in to Hoopsfix and I was describing it as a long journey already …little did I know 🫠

[Sam Neter 💸🏀 @SamNeter]

PlayZones are the exact opposite of everything a basketball player would want.

And I'd argue are the opposite of what most kids would want - no-one wants locked, bookable spaces in public parks, let alone ones that are MUGAs.

Awful initiative & huge waste of money.

[Tom Webster @tommydoubleyoo]

@markbritball @SamNeter One of their funded programmes (PlayZones) is multi-use games areas which can include tarmac surfacing and basketball markings and hoops/backboards (also netball, cricket, hockey with different surfaces)