After over 30 years of triumphs and disasters the Brighton Bears played their last game in the British Basketball League on 14th April 2006.

This site has been set up by fans to help us remember the good times and maybe, just maybe, to plot the return of the Bears.....

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Come on over to the Bears Forum to chat about the good old days and catch up with old friends.

Bears Record

The Bears played in the UK's premier basketball league, the BBL, from 1990 to 2006. The table below plots the highs and lows of those years.

Notes:

• From 1999-2002, the BBL operated a Conference system. Brighton competed in the Southern Conference.
• DNQ denotes Did Not Qualify.

Bears Directory

For a complete A-Z of every Bears player and coach from 1984-2006, click on the attached link

Bears A to Z.xls (Excel spreadsheet)

All-time Bears Statistical Leaders

The following tables show the All Time* Bears stats leaders, correct up to the end of the 2004-2005 regular season.

Figures are for BBL regular season league games only.

* Unfortunately our records only go back to the late eighties

Games Played 1 Gary Smith 232 2 Steve Nelson 228 3 Mike Brown 165 4 Colin Irish 153 5 Cleave Lewis 147 6 Alan Cunningham 141 7 Alan Prescott 139 8 Mark Hubbard 123 9 Mike Spaid 121 10 Wilbur Johnson 102       Gary Smith	Points 1 Colin Irish 3758 2 Cleave Lewis 2485 3 Steve Nelson 2481 4 Herman Harried 2363 5 Alan Cunningham 1991 6 Mark Hubbard 1872 7 Mike Brown 1775 8 Wilbur Johnson 1605 9 Bryan Heron 1477 10 Sterling Davis 1402       Colin Irish
Rebounds 1 Herman Harried 1314 2 Colin Irish 1012 3 Alan Cunningham 997 4 Cleave Lewis 958 5 Mike Spaid 865 6 Wilbur Johnson 787 7 Steve Nelson 750 8 Rico Alderson 712 9 Dale Shackleford 674 10 Mike Brown 668       Herman Harried	Assists 1 Cleave Lewis 657 2 Colin Irish 599 3 Ronnie Baker 540 4 Steve Nelson 469 5 Dale Shackleford 428 6 Randy Duck 340 7 Mike Brown 336 8 Gary Smith 321 9 Rico Alderson 309 10 Larry Coates 224       Cleave Lewis
Steals 1 Colin Irish 395 2 Steve Nelson 367 3 Cleave Lewis 278 4 Dale Shackleford 242 5 Mike Brown 238 6 Alan Cunningham 227 7 Herman Harried 224 8 Gary Smith 187 9 Ronnie Baker 170 10 Mike Spaid 133       Colin Irish	Losses 1 Colin Irish 477 2 Steve Nelson 459 3 Cleave Lewis 456 4 Herman Harried 357 5 Ronnie Baker 305 6 Alan Cunningham 283 7 Gary Smith 265 8 Dale Shackleford 292 9 Michael Brown 258 10 Rico Alderson 245       Colin Irish
Blocks 1 Alan Cunningham 176 2 Herman Harried 168 3 Wilbur Johnson 140 4 Mike Spaid 139 5 Steve Nelson 98 6 Charles Claxton 86 7 Kalpatrick Wells 71 8 Ajou Deng 60 9 Colin Irish 49 10 Leo Rogers 47       Alan Cunningham	Fouls 1 Steve Nelson 721 2 Colin Irish 503 3 Mike Brown 389 4 Gary Smith 361 5 Wilbur Johnson 337 6 Herman Harried 308 7 Mike Spaid 305 8 Alan Cunningham 298 9 Mark Scott 274 10 Cleave Lewis 270       Steve Nelson
Points Per Game 1 Herman Harried 24.61 2 Colin Irish 24.56 3 James Hamilton 24.09 4 Greg Francis 22.10 5 Bryan Heron 22.04 6 Gary Sparks 20.86 7 Kendrick Warren 20.06 8 Jon Gaines 19.86 9 Albert White 19.80 10 Sterling Davis 19.47 (minimum 20 games)   Herman Harried	Rebounds Per Game 1 Herman Harried 13.69 2 James Hamilton 11.38 3 Don Faux 10.41 4 Ajou Deng 9.95 5 Rico Alderson 9.89 6 Dave Wahl 9.58 7 Dale Shackleford 9.36 8 Charles Claxton 9.09 9 Anthony Thomas 8.19 10 Gary Sparks 8.07 (minimum 20 games)   Herman Harried
Assists Per Game 1 Larry Coates 6.59 2 Ryan Huntley 6.42 3 Ryan Cuff 6.13 4 Dale Shackleford 5.94 5 Ronnie Baker 5.93 6 Joel Burns 4.50 7 Cleave Lewis 4.47 8 Phil Waghorn 4.36 9 Randy Duck 4.30 10 Rico Alderson 4.29 (minimum 15 games)   Larry Coates	Steals Per Game 1 Gary Sparks 3.71 2 Dale Shackleford 3.36 3 Phil Waghorn 3.09 4 Colin Irish 2.58 5 Larry Coates 2.56 6 Ralph Blalock 2.47 7 Herman Harried 2.33 8 Andrew Bailey 2.00 9 Derrick Plair 1.95 10 Ronnie Baker 1.87 (minimum 15 games)   Gary Sparks
Losses Per Game 1 Larry Coates 4.12 2 Dale Shackleford 4.06 3 Herman Harried 3.72 4 Albert White 3.63 5 Rico Alderson 3.40 6 Ronnie Baker 3.35 7 James Hamilton 3.25 8 Ben Caton 3.13 9 Colin Irish 3.12 10 Cleave Lewis 3.10 (minimum 15 games)   Larry Coates	Blocks Per Game 1 Gary Sparks 2.86 2 Charles Claxton 2.61 3 James Doyle 2.56 4 Kalpatrick Wells 2.03 5 Herman Harried 1.75 6 Adam McCanna 1.69 7 Ajou Deng 1.62 8 Wilbur Johnson 1.37 9 Anthony Thomas 1.38 10 Rodger Farrington 1.33 (minimum 15 games)   Gary Sparks
Floor Shooting % 1 Herman Harried 65.53 2 Gary Sparkes 60.98 3 Rodger Farrington 59.70 4 Mark Hubbard 58.79 5 Tom Frederick 58.70 6 Kevin Dacres 56.48 7 Jason Siemon 56.30 8 Wilbur Johnson 56.28 9 Anthony Thomas 56.03 10 Derek Plair 53.97 (minimum 50 attempts)   Herman Harried	3 PT % 1 Joel Burns 53.03 2 Mike Spaid 45.12 3 Mark Hubbard 42.65 4 Yorick Williams 40.32 5 Leo Rogers 40.00 6 Larry Coates 39.05 7 Cleave Lewis 39.02 8 Jon Gaines 38.62 9 Ben Caton 38.46 10 Ryan Cuff 38.46 (minimum 50 attempts)   Joel Burns
FT % 1 Ryan Cuff 89.74 2 Mark Hubbard 84.29 3 Joel Burns 82.35 4 Bryan Heron 81.87 5 Greg Francis 80.53