Jimmy Rogers

James Aggrey Rogers (December 17, 1939 – October 1, 2018) was a British basketball coach, player and builder.

Life Rogers was born in Wales. His mother had Welsh and Barbadian roots and was a dancer. he grew up in an orphanage in Newcastle upon Tyne and in a foster family in County Durham, While serving a seven-year stint in West Germany, Rogers played for VfL Osnabrück.

He returned to the United Kingdom in 1966 and settled in Liverpool. He played basketball at Liverpool YMCA, where he also started coaching. He was also a mentor of British basketball figure Vince Macaulay. Rogers got the nickname “The Bishop of Brixton“. According to The Guardian, Rogers was the “father of British basketball“ and “a legend of the sport in this country“.

Rogers died from lung cancer in 2018.