The Guildford Heat are a basketball club based in Guildford, England that currently play in the British Basketball League. The Heat play their home games at the The Spectrum and were formed in 2005 by fans of the former BBL franchise Thames Valley Tigers, who folded during the same year. It was announced on the 13th February 2009 that the Heat had gone into administration, citing the financial downturn as the reason.
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The Guildford Heat are a basketball club based in Guildford, England that currently play in the British Basketball League. The Heat play their home games at the The Spectrum and were formed in 2005 by fans of the former BBL franchise Thames Valley Tigers, who folded during the same year. It was announced on the 13th February 2009 that the Heat had gone into administration, citing the financial downturn as the reason.
The town of Guildford has been home to several elite basketball teams down the years. With the opening of the Guildford Spectrum, the successful Kingston team uprooted, moved in and renamed themselves the Guildford Kings in 1992, briefly calling the place home until they folded in 1994, as did the Pumas before they relocated to Sutton in 1999. However it was the first major team, the Guildford Pirates who played in the town from 1975 to 1982 that would come back and figure prominently in the birth of the new club, the Guildford Heat.
In 1982, the Pirates moved to near-by...
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