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SHOCKED. Shattered. Didn't see it coming. Who knew? What a load of bunkum.

SEQ Stars crashing to Earth so violently and out of the WNBL for sure is a shock to the league and its fans.

But Basketball Australia didn't see any warning signs?

Perhaps BA didn't want to admit it got the decision wrong in the first place to bring this SEQ model into play in 2015-16.

There were two bids - one from Shane Heal's now fallen group, the other from Jason Chainey's group which also had Brian Kerle linked to it.

A couple of pretty reliable names there. While their bid may not have had the necessary legs, in BA's haste to get a team back into south east Queensland - and with Adelaide Lightning threatening last year to fall over (don't rule out revisiting that again soon, either) - it rushed to green-light the new entity.

SEQ splashed money around, signing Opals star Erin Phillips (pictured below) and a host of our most exciting young names. In hindsight, a little reckless maybe? A little naive to be wooing everyone with boundless cash?

Seems it wasn't so boundless after all, especially when you consider not so very long ago, SEQ was trying to suit its FOURTH import for this season!

And yet now, suddenly, its "Shock! Horror! Probe!"

The Stars released a statement late yesterday saying they would "cease operations immediately".

They have five games left, including this round to Adelaide (tomorrow) and Perth so any rescue attempt has to move faster than the usual glacier-pace at which our administrators operate.

Stars chairman Jarrod Sierocki said Deloitte would act as liquidator. Sounds pretty final.

Why Heal last night chose to fulfill his NBL commentating commitments to Fox Sports in Adelaide instead of returning to Brisbane and his besieged team and club, is left for you to ponder.

Trust this. Whatever happens today, if the club is miraculously "saved" or can be aided to finish the season, Logan City Council - which has been and remains magnificent through all this - most likely will stay well clear of any future attempts to suit a WNBL team in its constituency.

That's not just a blow for women's basketball in Brisbane but for the sport in Australia, despite all the advances the NBL has made for basketball this season.

It sends us reeling again, looking like a sport which simply cannot sustain its competitors for any length of time - in this instance, not even a full season!

BA is complicit in this and CEO Anthony Moore admitted as much today.

"We'll be doing a full post-mortem, reviewing the original license bid and assurances that were made," he said.

"We'll be looking at the failure of BA in this process as well and judging ourselves harshly."