Patty on the ball
BASKETBALL Australia's office minions should take off their collective feather headresses and bow to Patty Mills for the (free) leg work he is doing for next month's Oceania Series.
Big Mac? Big support
McDONALDS today formally backing the Townsville Crocodiles as the NBL club’s naming rights sponsor is a bigger story than most sponsorship yarns as the climate of trepidation around the league shifts to anticipation instead.
Monday round-up
STEPH Talbot has joined Dante Exum as another potential Australian international superstar, named today in the All Star Five at the FIBA World U19 Women’s Championship in Lithuania.
48 Minutes? No way Jose
THE new NBL of NBL Pty Ltd will not return to 48-minute games for the 2013-14 season even though fans are clamoring to have the change fast-forwarded along the agenda.
Biting the hand that feeds
YOU won’t get an argument from me that media coverage of basketball in Australia has hit an all-time low and that the sport should latch on to anything/everything it can get.
Super squad on Road to Rio
WOULD love to see the 10-man Boomers team – OK, Basketball Australia is calling it a “squad” – announced today playing a game or two.
Kyrie will strike gold
PICTURE this. You’re at the rock concert of one of your all-time favorite artists and the show is going well. He/she/they is/are clearly impressed too.
A big gamble by Tigers
SAY what you will, the record of big imports - and by "big", let's say 7-footers - in the NBL is nothing to write home about.
WNBL TV deal done
GOOD news to be revealed soon by Basketball Australia and the ABC - the WNBL television deal will continue in 2013-14.
Joyce brings joy for 'oldies'
THE best aspect of Brendan Joyce’s appointment as Opals coach is not the culture shift, enthusiasm, work ethic or his heart-on-the-sleeve, bleed green-and-gold approach – though, of course, that is mightily refreshing and upbeat.

