SLB is due to return this weekend

Super League Basketball chiefs insist the new season will tip off as planned this weekend despite making a late appeal for qualified referees to come forward.

In an email seen by City AM and believed to have been sent on Tuesday morning, SLB’s operations coordinator Nick Hill contacted refs who officiated in pre-season games, some of them junior and inexperienced, about the opportunity of joining an SLB Referee Academy.

Hill added: “We are also looking for referees to officiate SLB games from this Friday, 19 September.”

The second season of SLB is due to begin this weekend despite a bitter ongoing legal dispute with governing body the British Basketball Federation (BBF).

SLB alleges that referees told the league they were warned off officiating in i

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