Reigning league champions Belfast Star didn’t need Brexit to feel the full force of the border, despite not crossing it for over a year. The team haven’t travelled south to defend their title as pandemic restrictions cancelled the 2020-21 season, making it 12 months since the last competitive basketball game here. Belfast Star has reason for some cheer though, as teenage sensation CJ Fulton secured a scholarship to Pennsylvania’s Division 1 college Lafayette University last month. The league got cut short and it was a fairly controversial finish to the season,” Quinn said. “It’ll be a big disappointment if the season doesn’t happen for a second year,” said Quinn, whose mother has been busy inoculating on the frontline.

Source: Irish Independent April 17, 2021 01:33 UTC