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FLASHBACK 78: NBL around the corner
FLASHBACKS, my irregular "lucky dip" where I just reach into my drawers of old Australian basketball stuff and transcribe or post whatever I find for you.
Boomers, Opals jobs in the air
THE fate of Basketball Australia’s two key coaching jobs, the Boomers and Opals, will remain publicly unknown until mid-October at the earliest, the performance reviews to be conducted later this month.
Welcome to September 1
SPRING has sprung! September 1 is here and so too is our monthly revisit of the NBL's first nude calendar attempt in 2001. This month it's a Sixer.
Key NBL refs to go fulltime
AUSTRALIA’s most experienced referee, Michael Aylen, is first among a key and significant NBL move to appoint a team of fulltime officials for 2016-17.
Is Bryson the next Copeland?
JOSH Childress is unlikely to fill the third import spot on the Sydney Kings’ roster, rookie NBL coach Andrew Gaze today saying there’s still no rush to add the last two players.
While we were asleep...
WHILE we were staying up until all hours watching the Olympic Games, NBL clubs were still recruiting. Here’s what you may have missed.
ABC (nee Blitz) to be seen in China
MATCHES against the two Chinese teams at this year’s Australian Basketball Challenge (formerly the NBL Preseason Blitz) in Brisbane will be live-streamed to China and also available to NBL fans.
A dream existed - Farewell to Rio
THERE WAS a Dream Team in Rio, we could have matched it, Delly is the man, and a few final notes to farewell the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Daylight robbery - Boomers in Rio
IT was disgraceful, appalling, the worst Olympic end-game officiating since USSR was whistled to gold over the USA in Munich in 1972. But it must not be allowed to dim the Boomers’ Rio campaign.
Meddling negates medalling - Opals in Rio
THE alarm bells were going off for almost a year but Basketball Australia – despite some shared private misgivings – chose to ignore them, giving Opals coach Brendan Joyce carte blanche with his Olympic team.
