Basketball's "Big Bash" to make splash
BASKETBALL's winter equivalent of cricket's upbeat, fast-paced, over-and-done Big Bash will hit Australia in 2017 when Champions League Basketball launches its inaugural season.
The King? Or the MVP? Who will reign?
IT tips off tomorrow - easily one of the most talked about NBA Championship Series in history for Australia's ardent followers of The Show - as Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers head into their best-of-seven Finals battle.
Jamarvellous across the Finnish line
IF Adelaide 36ers' 2015 MVP Jamar Wilson returns to play NBL next season, he will become the league's first Finnish import.
Oh The Blitz, Oh The Blitz, Oh The Blitz is back
THE Blitz is back. New NBL executive director Larry Kestelman confirmed today the league would tip-off with its annual preseason tournament for the Loggins-Bruton Cup.
Phoenix Mercury? Meet Eastern Mavericks
FLEDGLING Adelaide Hills-based SA basketball club Eastern Mavericks can now boast not only two Halls Medallists but two WNBA signings for reigning champion Phoenix Mercury.
Hawks fly, Mercury rises
MORE Aussies have rocked into Phoenix Mercury's WNBA franchise while it was formalised today that inaugural NBL club Wollongong would be back in business in 2015-16.
Grass is Greenwood in Perth
IN case you missed it, talented Tasmanian guard Hugh Greenwood officially has signed with Perth Wildcats.
Lord Larry has a plan
IT is definitely time for anyone who follows the NBL, has loved it, or has dropped off it, or become a critic of it, to take a deep breath and, like the rest of us, now hope for the best.
FLASHBACK 43: MEMORY LANE
*FLASHBACKS, my irregular "lucky dip" where I just reach into my drawers of old Australian basketball stuff and transcribe whatever I find for you.
Finally, it's best-of-three
THE WNBL has seen the light and will embrace a best-of-three Grand Final series from the forthcoming 2015-16 season and beyond.

