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.
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.
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.
Farewell to 'the Kid' who changed NBL basketball
BRAD Newley's retirement from the NBL in the wake of Melbourne United's Grand Final Series defeat by Tasmania, ends the elite-level career of one of Australian basketball's true greats, a dual-Olympian, a Boomers' mainstay, an international star, a stalwart of the game but, and most importantly, one of the sport's genuine good blokes.
Brad&Boti: March, march, march as Ants swarm
IT'S a wrap! The NBL's 2023-24 season has ended in a blaze of glory with Tasmania JackJumpers creating history by beating Melbourne United in Game 5 of the Championship, Brad Rosen and I all over it at our Brad&Boti Podcast where we also bring you the latest player movement news.
A state of independence, a history of success
TASMANIA's success in claiming the NBL Championship within three years of the expansion club's existence is in itself one of Australian sport's outstanding achievements, but then, Ian Davies and his Launceston Casino City won the title in 1981, three years after the actual league was born!
Tasmania our island of relevancy as NBL champion
ISLAND defended? You bet as Tasmania's sturdy JackJumpers, riddled with injury and on the road in Melbourne for the deciding Game 5 Grand Final to determine the NBL Championship, had Jordon Crawford with a career-high 32 points as once again the team found an avenue to victory and a historic sporting milestone and achievement.
Delly meets the moment as momentum shifts again
IN Game 3, Melbourne lost the "unlosable" but last night in Game 4 of the NBL Championship in Hobart, Tasmania returned the favour as Jo Lual-Acuil stole an inbounds pass meant for a cutting Majok Deng, ensuring this enthralling Grand Final would go to a decider, United winning 88-86.