Olympic City Giants were a professional basketball team based in Oldham, England. Previously based in Bolton and Bury, the team were known as Bolton & Bury Hawks and then Bolton & Bury Giants, the team were founder members of the British Basketball League in 1986.
After an eighth-place finish in the 1987–88 Carlsberg League campaign, Giants qualified for their first and only BBL-era Play-off. They drew top seed Glasgow Rangers, and were soundly beaten in both games of the bet-of-three series by the regular season Champions.
In 1989 after encountering several financial difficulties, Olympic City Giants formally merged with Manchester Eagles (formerly Manchester United) to become Manchester Giants, marking a return of the famous name after a three-year absence, following a merger between the original Manchester Giants and Manchester United in 1985.[1]
| Season | Division | Tier | Regular Season | Post-Season | Trophy | Cup | Head Coach | ||||||||
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| Finish | Played | Wins | Losses | Points | Win % | ||||||||||
| Bolton & Bury Giants | |||||||||||||||
| 1987–1988 | BBL | I | 10th | 28 | 12 | 16 | 24 | 0.428 | Did not qualify | Quarter-final | style="text-align:center;" | - | style="text-align:center;" | - | |
| Olympic City Giants | |||||||||||||||
| 1988–1989 | BBL | I | 8th | 20 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 0.200 | Lost in Quarter-finals to Glasgow Rangers, 0–2 | Quarter-final | style="text-align:center;" | - | style="text-align:center;" | - | |
Ed Bona Jimmy Brandon Terry Crosby
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