NBL, WNBL, BA launch HoopsFest in Perth
PERTH in September will exclusively host the self-proclaimed "largest basketball festival ever" with the inaugural joint NBL, WNBL, BA "HoopsFest" initiative, featuring all 10 men's teams playing the 2024-25 season's opening round, a women's preseason tournament and the under-18 national club championship, featuring 48 junior teams.
New 'Coach Legend' podcast launching next week
NEED help, some mentoring on your journey as a basketball coach? Or just interested in hearing what the best in the business have to say about their craft? Your answers launch next week on Spotify with the ABC Coach Legends Spotlight podcast, hosted by Warwick Cann and featuring some of the best in our sport.
Different day, same old same old at 36ers
ADELAIDE 36ers fans believing the appointment of favourite son and club stalwart Scott Ninnis as coach would revive the ailing club and its NBL fans starved of success for more than two decades, need to think again as management announces Brendan Joyce as his new assistant.
BOB's WNBA: There's a Storm brewing
BOB'S WNBA: The WNBA season has opened and our Seattle-based US correspondent, BOB CRAVEN, brings us that city's Aussie perspective on its Storm content. Remember, WNBL MVP Aussies such as Lauren Jackson, Suzy Batkovic, Abby Bishop and Steph Talbot have been among the Storm's finest.
Vale Corey Williams
THE tragic, premature and sadly inevitable death of one of the NBL's past great players and by far its most strident international advocate and ambassador, Corey "Homicide" Williams, at just 46, has left a massive pall over the off-season and feelings of inestimable loss.
BOB'S BREAKING NEWS: Jade trade on WNBA eve
BOB'S BREAKING NEWS: Our man in the US, BOB CRAVEN, has breaking news on the future of UC Canberra Capitals and Opals star Jade Melbourne, traded by Seattle Storm which, like the Phoenix Mercury, is a WNBA club with rich history for Australian players.
Brad&Boti: Brad Newley on life after basketball
BRAD Newley has just closed the door on one of the great careers in Australian basketball and Brad Rosen and I seized the chance to chat with him at our Brad&Boti podcast before he took his family back to Spain's Gran Canaria for an emotional revisit.
Time for WNBL to wave BA goodbye
IF speculation is correct that Basketball Australia chief executive Matt Scriven has rejected Geelong's bid for a WNBL licence at the same time as Melbourne Boomers have withdrawn as a club then it's high time the league ditched the federation's tattered umbrella to "go it alone" and seek the support of NBL owner Larry Kestelman.
Unleashed. SA basketball deserved it!
IF your response to the question: "Is there a terrific NBL1 Central podcast to regularly tune in to" is "Nah!", then I have just the one to recommend to you ... that is, of course, if "Nah" stands for News, Accuracy and Humour. You'll get that and more every week.
Geelong set to swoop on vacant WNBL license
BASKETBALL Australia, in its capacity as the management of the WNBL, is caught in a dilemma with the imminent loss of 40-year-old Melbourne (formerly Bulleen) Boomers and approach from a Geelong-based consortium willing to take up the license, keeping the league at eight teams.