On Your Mark: The PG role in modern ball
MARK Dickel is one of New Zealand's most succesful basketballers, now equally established as a top coach. Today he shares more personal insights, this time the changing nature of the game and the point guard role.
Must SEABL go and who does BA PR?
AN exciting new national club championship and the reinvigoration of state leagues ultimately has led to the demise of Australia's longest-running interstate basketball competition, the SEABL.
I Love Watching You Play
MARK Dickel is one of New Zealand's most succesful basketballers, now equally established as a top coach. Today he shares more personal insights, this time the true role of junior parents.
Mercury rising for an oncoming Storm
OPALS' Rio Olympian Stephanie Talbot manufactured a huge 3-pointer yesterday to help Phoenix Mercury again knock Connecticut Sun out of the WNBL playoffs, 96-86.
Why coaching is a vocation, not a hobby
MARK Dickel is one of New Zealand's most successful ballers and now equally established as a top coach, the former Victoria Titans NBL playmaker today graciously sharing his coaching philosophy for young and old alike.
BA death knell for SEABL
HOBART Chargers and Bendigo Lady Braves look likely to be the “farewell” champions of the SEABL following Basketball Australia’s decision to abandon managing the country’s longest-running interstate league.
Tasmania keeps making national noise
BASKETBALL around the nation enjoyed some amazing grand finals over this weekend, with WNBL championship winners Gabrielle Richards and Kelly Wilson by far the standouts in the SEABL women’s decider.
NBL trio head Indigenous All Stars lineup
NBL stalwarts Chris Patton, Deba George and Chris Cedar headline the Australian Indigenous All Stars for next month’s annual clash with the New Zealand Maori National Team across the Tasman.
Anniversary of basketball's Olympic birth
TODAY marks the 82nd anniversary of the Gold Medal playoff from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the Games where men's basketball first was introduced, with the final played outdoors and in driving rain.
Adams brings NBA to NZ kids
STEVEN Adams may be the biggest name in New Zealand basketball but he's not too big to forget his roots or to foster further growth of the game in his homeland.