After his lengthy affiliation with a Riders aspect who’ve consistently been among the many title contenders on the prime of the British sport, Levenston’s involvement with a Nottingham workforce who’ve by no means competed at that stage has come as a serious enhance for the bold outfit.
The Hoods had been based in 2009, and because the 2017-18 season they’ve performed within the prime division of Nationwide Basketball League – Britain’s second-tier competitors behind Tremendous League Basketball, which was beforehand often called the British Basketball League.
They’ve established themselves as knowledgeable outfit who play and prepare on the Nottingham Wildcats Enviornment – the venue belonging to the workforce that play in Ladies’s Tremendous League Basketball.
The Hoods have gotten off to a troublesome begin to the season and sit second from backside of their league, whereas East Midlands rivals Derby Trailblazers – a membership trying to reclaim elite standing – are second within the desk after 10 video games.
There is no such thing as a promotion and relegation between the NBL and SBL, nevertheless, with the highest flight primarily based on a franchise system.
Levenston says “persistence” might be key for the Hoods and insists the membership stay Nottingham’s “finest stored secret”.
“It took me quite a bit longer to put the foundations at Leicester, and a whole lot of that have and people classes realized has helped put us forward of the place would have been,” Levenston mentioned.
“I’ve a five-year plan that can convey top-flight basketball to Nottingham that can hopefully have us competing on the highest stage.
“I’ve the ambitions of taking the workforce into Europe sooner or later, and that’s extra just like the 10-year plan.”