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YES Brisbane fans. We know you are waiting anxiously and, again, bordering on losing faith you will have an elite national league competitor in 2015-16.

Have no doubt. You will!

But the only team we can confirm at this point will be your WNBL presence.

Yes, indeed there will be a new women's team next season. 

Basketball Australia took final submissions from the Jason Chainey/Brian Kerle bid and the Shane Heal-fronted bid on Monday in Brisbane and federation chief executive Anthony Moore told me today, one of them would be green-lighted.

Moore said KPMG was reviewing the numbers associated with both proposals and BA's licensing bid group, which included Moore and Graeme Allen, had been impressed.

"Both groups gave really good presentations," Moore said.

With the WNBL focus currently - correctly - on its finals, Moore said the confirmation of the new club most likely would be made in the week after the Grand Final.

MEANWHILE the NBL's CEOs and GMs teleconferenced today and here we are, days from the end of February and a few weeks away from the release of the free agents list, and still there is nothing concrete to report on a Bullets team.

Most will know of the report suggesting Melbourne-based Paul Bendat, son of Perth Wildcats owner Jack, is buying or has bought the license for an NBL team in Brisbane and that former BA CEO Larry Sengstock is being attached to that bid.

But the league has released nothing formally and beyond blind assurances from previous CEO Fraser Neill that Brisbane next season would boast an NBL team - as recently as the highly successful preseason Blitz tournament at Auchenflower Stadium - there has been nothing of consequence.

THE GOOD OLD DAYS: Bullets and Sixers battling it out.

At February 25 and counting, surely now the chances of it happening are becoming dimmer by the day.

Pretty sure when the NBL demerged from BA, it was going to be transparent and aggressive in its decision-making and marketing.

Are you seeing any of that where you live because I sure as hell aren't where I am?

Fob offs regarding Brisbane and expansion are the new norm, which obviously doesn't augur well. 

"There's lots of work happening behind the scenes blah blah blah," is the new transparency of the NBL.

Why the NBL simply cannot issue some kind of definitive statement on the state of play regarding Brisbane is a mystery which even has the Loch Ness Monster scratching its scales.

There are so many people waiting to embrace this that keeping them in the dark is unfair, to be honest.

STEVE CARFINO CAUGHT DOING RESEARCH! That's how Leroy Loggins dunks it.

The longer the NBL allows this to drag out, the longer potential Brisbane-born players who might be out of contract - Brendan Teys at the 36ers for one off the top of my head - have to think that maybe this new team isn't as sound as we would like it to be.

Over to you NBL. That crowd you demerged from? They're showing you how it should be done.