Historic Day for basketball in SA
THE Free Throw Foundation is delighted to announce today the inaugural release of funding is now available to the SA Basketball community through its “Assist Program”.
World Cup door ajar for Boomers
DON’T you love the way at every soccer World Cup draw, football’s aficionados trot out the perennial “Group of Death” – and usually that’s any group Australia is in.
ROUND ABOUT: NBL16/WNBL17
SERIOUSLY now. The NBL is going to say nothing about Perth Wildcats CEO Nick Marvin’s comments in the WA press ahead of last week’s Cairns fixture?
FLASHBACK 29: March, 1995
*FLASHBACKS, my weekly "lucky dip" where I just reach into my drawers of old Australian basketball stuff and transcribe whatever I find for you.
Rankings #17 ... and so very little
THE buzz about the SEABL and the NBL affiliating is growing louder, the prospect of obvious pathways into the big league sparking talk of new teams and even whispers of a potential promotion system.
How often will headline writers use "Dante's Peak"?
NO huge surprise today that Dante Exum nominated for the NBA draft on June 26, three-time championship winner Luc Longley quick to support the 18-year-old’s decision.
Chris is a very naughty boy
AMAZING, eh? Yesterday I lambasted the NBL for saying zip about the league’s “Chris Anstey investigations” and today, out of nowhere, we get a missive saying what has occurred in the past eight days.
ROUND ABOUT: NBL15/WNBL16
EXPECT the next Melbourne-Perth NBL game to be full of feeling on Sunday, and not because of Mark Worthington’s huge three to win the clash at The Jungle.
FLASHBACK 28: The "AB", Dec-Jan, 1986
*FLASHBACKS, my weekly "lucky dip" where I just reach into my drawers of old Australian basketball stuff and transcribe whatever I find for you.
Well, one dream, is over ...
SO much for the rose-colored glasses brigade who were so certain Kyrie Irving was entertaining the notion of playing for the Boomers at World Cup and/or Olympic competitions.

