The new team secured the help of the NBA's Chicago Bulls' star Luol Deng, as he led the national team to promotion from EuroBasket Division B to Division A. FIBA stated that Great Britain had to improve their competitiveness prior to being granted the spot in the Olympic tournament that would normally be reserved for the host nation.

The team would eventually finish on top of Group D, which also included Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic and Israel to qualify for the finals.

At the first Euro finals for Great Britain after the formation of British Basketball, the national team were drawn into a tough Group C, which featured European heavyweights Spain, and Serbia along with a feisty Slovenia squad.

[5] Following Great Britain's tough opening match loss to the Lithuanians, the British were handed two heavy defeats in their next two fixtures against Turkey, and Spain.

However, heading into their fourth match of group play Team GB would earn their first ever victory at the Euro finals, as they defeated Portugal 85–73.

[10] After the draining loss, Great Britain were completely overwhelmed in their fourth fixture of the tournament; in a disastrous defeat to Australia 75–106.

In their final group play game, Great Britain faced China, with both teams already unable to progress to the knockout stage.

They went into the finals short-handed: Luol Deng was recovering from illness, Pops Mensah-Bonsu did not participate due to an injury and Joel Freeland was also absent, citing commitments with his club.

Winning their fourth group game against favoured Germany put them on the verge of advancing to the second round of the tournament for the first time in their history.

The team finished equaling their record from the previous tournament, with Daniel Clark leading Great Britain in scoring and defence.

This outcome was largely attributed to British Basketball no longer receiving funding from UK Sport; efficiencies had to be made, including cancelling training camps.

[17] At the finals, Great Britain were drawn in the "group of death" with Belgium, Latvia, Russia, Serbia, and one of the tournament hosts, Turkey.

Despite some close performances, GB lost all five of their matches to finish at the bottom of Group D. After the tournament Tony Garbelotto took over as head coach of the national team from Joe Prunty.

After the loss, Tony Garbelotto resigned as head coach of Great Britain, and was replaced by Alberto Lorenzo, prior to their next match which they lost at Israel; during the February qualifying window.

[28][29] 1948 Olympic Games: finished 20th among 23 teams 3 Lionel Price, 4 Robert Norris, 5 Stanley Weston, 6 Trevor Davies, 7 Malcolm Finlay (C), 8 Colin Hunt, 9 Frank Cole, 10 Douglas Legg,11 Ronald Legg, 12 Harry Weston, 13 Alex Eke, 14 Stanley McMeekan, 15 Sydney McMeekan (Coach: Malcolm Finlay) 2009 EuroBasket: finished 13th among 16 teams 4 Jarrett Hart, 5 Kieron Achara, 6 Mike Lenzly, 7 Pops Mensah-Bonsu, 8 Andrew Sullivan (C), 9 Nick George, 10 Robert Archibald,11 Joel Freeland, 12 Nate Reinking, 13 Daniel Clark, 14 Flinder Boyd, 15 Andrew Betts (Coach: Chris Finch) 2011 EuroBasket: finished 13th among 24 teams 4 Ogo Adegboye, 5 Andrew Lawrence, 6 Mike Lenzly, 7 Devon van Oostrum, 8 Andrew Sullivan (C), 9 Luol Deng, 10 Robert Archibald,11 Joel Freeland, 12 Nate Reinking, 13 Daniel Clark, 14 Eric Boateng, 15 Kyle Johnson (Coach: Chris Finch) 2012 Olympic Games: finished 9th among 12 teams 4 Kieron Achara, 5 Andrew Lawrence, 6 Mike Lenzly, 7 Pops Mensah-Bonsu, 8 Andrew Sullivan (C), 9 Luol Deng (C),10 Robert Archibald, 11 Joel Freeland, 12 Nate Reinking, 13 Daniel Clark, 14 Kyle Johnson, 15 Eric Boateng (Coach: Chris Finch) 2013 EuroBasket: finished 13th among 24 teams 4 Kieron Achara, 5 Andrew Lawrence, 6 Justin Robinson, 7 Devon van Oostrum, 8 Andrew Sullivan (C), 9 Gareth Murray,10 Myles Hesson, 11 Alasdair Fraser, 12 Daniel Clark, 13 Ogo Adegboye, 14 Eric Boateng, 15 Kyle Johnson (Coach: Joe Prunty) 2017 EuroBasket: finished 22nd among 24 teams[32] 0 Jules Dang-Akodo, 1 Kyle Johnson, 3 Ben Mockford, 4 Andrew Lawrence, 5 Teddy Okereafor, 10 Daniel Clark, 11 Gareth Murray,13 Eric Boateng, 19 Luke Nelson, 20 Kieron Achara (C), 26 Gabriel Olaseni, 44 Kofi Josephs (Coach: Joe Prunty) 2022 EuroBasket: finished 24th among 24 teams[33] 00 Ovie Soko, 0 Gabriel Olaseni, 3 Ben Mockford, 6 Luke Nelson, 10 Daniel Clark (C), 13 Kavell Bigby-Williams, 22 Myles Hesson,23 Dwayne Lautier-Ogunleye, 24 Carl Wheatle, 32 Patrick Whelan, 33 Jamell Anderson, 77 Devon van Oostrum (Coach: Nate Reinking)