Reviews: B'ball Christmas stocking fillers
BOOK REVIEWS: It has been a rarity for basketball in Australia to have too many books written about it or its protagonists, so having two available right now as Christmas stocking stuffers is like ... well, Christmas!
New Opals eye Tokyo
THE Australian team from the 20-player Opals squad for FIBA's Tokyo Olympic Qualifying Tournament in February will fly to Bourges in France as the four-team group's top seed and needing only a top-three finish to advance.
The Week That Was: Dec.1-8
SOME weeks are full of news, some weeks you pay your dues. Here's our weekly wrap of what went down over the past seven days at Basketball On The Internet.
Podcast: Don't Agree But I Like It
IS Kings NBL coach and Boomers assistant Will Weaver the likely successor to Brett Brown as Australian men's coach after the Tokyo Olympics?
That WasThe Week That Was: Nov.24-Dec.1
NBL Next Stars star LaMelo Ball started the week by drawing more than 10 million viewers to watch the highlights of his first triple-double in another amazing week chronicled right here at Basketball On The Internet.
Opals' Olympic path clear now
THE Australian women's national team will need to negotiate France, Puerto Rico and Brazil from February 6-9 next year in Bourges to qualify for their Gold Medal quest at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
BA finally OK with BB reveal
GUESS what? It was true all along! Andrej Lemanis stepped down as coach of the Boomers soon after this year’s FIBA World Cup and his predecessor as our men’s national coach, Brett Brown, now will take the team to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Podcast Time! Brett subs in for Andrej
BASKETBALL Australia today made it official, announcing Brett Brown as Andrej Lemanis' Boomers successor ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, and Brad Rosen and I are all over it today at our weekly podcast.
The Week That Was: Nov.17-24
WHEN isn't it a big week of basketball here at Basketball On The Internet, although the Boomers coach stepping down doesn't happen every day!
Forehead slap: Of course it wasn't BA
CONTRARY to our earlier (mis)belief Basketball Australia had pulled the trigger on Boomers coach Andrej Lemanis, the truth is the Brisbane Bullets' NBL coach made the call himself.