A revival effort headed by former player and coach Jeff Jones to return the Giants name to the British Basketball League was put together in 2011.

Home grown talent at this time include Steve Latham, Dick Powell, Ken Walton,Trevor Pountain and John Nono.

Amongst the US stars to play for the Giants was Jeff Jones, who took to the court for the first time in that 1976 season and regularly netted over 400 points, after a successful college career at BNC Oklahoma.

By 1993, the Giants had been purchased by Cook Group Inc, an American medical devices company, at the start of another exciting new chapter in the team's history.

Although they only finished fourth and fifth in Coach Hanks' two seasons, the Giants were Play-off runners-up, losing the Wembley Championship Final to Worthing by a narrow 77–73 score line.

However, the Giants did make it into the record books in their first year at the Arena when they attracted an amazing 14,251 fans to their season opener against the London Leopards – still the biggest crowd to ever watch a basketball match in Britain.

However, he too found the task difficult although there was the consolation of a spirited end to the season and a run to the Wembley Championships where the Giants put up a good performance before losing their semi-final with Birmingham 91–80.

After several disappointing years in which the Giants struggled to live up to the expectations of their huge support, Nick Nurse was brought back to British basketball to try to end the team's 12-year wait for a trophy.

American Nurse, who coached the Birmingham Bullets to the Wembley Championship two years earlier, had also made his mark in European basketball with top Belgian team B.C.

Nurse's brief was simple – restore the Manchester Giants to their winning ways and reward their thousands of loyal fans by taking them to the top of the table.

Coach Nurse wasted no time in shooting for that goal and quickly assembled a star-studded cast of proven Budweiser League players.