ROUND ABOUT: NBL9/WNBL10
BASKETBALL followers who truly follow the game in Australia will not be greatly surprised to learn Basketball Australia’s High Performance manager Steven Icke has resigned.
FLASHBACK 24: D&MABA Annual Rpt 1966-67
*FLASHBACKS, my weekly "lucky dip" where I just reach into my drawers of old Australian basketball stuff and transcribe whatever I find for you.
Willie gets a crack
WILLIE Farley, NBL Championship winner, league MVP runner-up and scoring phenomenon has accepted a new role after a season in Queensland with Toowoomba Mountaineers.
Rankings #9 ... and WTH?
DANTE Exum, former NBL import Cecil’s point guard teenage son, has been the story of the week all week, with NBA analysts predicting him to go as high as #3 in next year’s draft.
Bevo shanghaied by Sharks
ROB Beveridge is in China, after accepting the role of head coach of the Chinese Basketball Association’s Shanghai Sharks, the club owned by former NBA star Yao Ming.
Brad BA's new 'shot doctor'
BRAD Davidson was a hard-nosed, tough-as-teak nugget of a basketball player but also one of the most talented Mildura has ever turned out.
ROUND ABOUT: NBL8/WNBL9
CHRIS Goulding is the NBL’s Player of the Month and Joey Wright the Coach of the Month after steering the 36ers to a 6-0 sweep of November.
FLASHBACK 23: The Cannon, April 13, 1985
*FLASHBACKS, my weekly "lucky dip" where I just reach into my drawers of old Australian basketball stuff and transcribe whatever I find for you.
TGIF, let's wrap
TGIF and the national basketball action can get really rolling, with good and bad news up north today and some fun emails and tweets flying this way.
Rankings #8 ... and some pfft
THE NBL is heading into one of its toughest rounds of the season and Townsville doesn't even have to shed a crocodile tear, sitting back having a bye.

