{"id":34920,"date":"2025-07-31T12:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34920\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:33:08","slug":"manx-basketball-team-buzzing-at-2027-island-games-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34920\/","title":{"rendered":"Manx basketball team &#8216;buzzing&#8217; at 2027 Island Games return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Basketball last featured at the Guernsey Games in 2023, where the team lost 73-55 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/66199589\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bronze medal play-off<\/a> against the hosts in front of a passionate home crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dunne said while the sport was growing on the Isle of Man, they still play in a men&#8217;s league, so &#8220;don&#8217;t get the opportunity play as a women&#8217;s team unless we travel off island&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said basketball&#8217;s return to the multi-sport contest would &#8220;give us the opportunity play at another level, with an end goal we can work towards&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The captain said the players had been &#8220;gutted&#8221; to not be part of the Manx team in Orkney but &#8220;were cheering from home&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said while the team understood why the sport was not featured as &#8220;it needs a lots of sports hall, which for a smaller island it&#8217;s just not manageable&#8221;, taking home gold from the mini-tournament in Anglesey recently &#8220;had been a great experience&#8221; for the squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know we can win medals, we have the skillset and the talent, it&#8217;s just about being able to get that experience,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Basketball last featured at the Guernsey Games in 2023, where the team lost 73-55 in the bronze medal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-34920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}