Red-faced Spartans contact the NBL
GOOD news. The bid by Brisbane Spartans to join the NBL in season 2014-15 is actually for real, the potential new club prompted overnight to actually stop talking just to the media and instead to the league.
New NBL teams? What about Team #9
NATIONAL Basketball League plans to expand from its existing eight clubs to 12 – maybe 13 – by 2015-16 leave one question avoided or unanswered. What about Team #9?
Brisbane Bizarros but the NBL will be back
NBL Chief Executive Officer Fraser Neill is more than buoyed after meeting yesterday with a group keen to back a Brisbane-based team from 2015-16 onwards.
What's in a name? United a dividing rod
THE outpouring of sadness, anger, passion and vitriol ahead of today's announcements regarding the future of the NBL's Melbourne Tigers makes for interesting viewing from a distance.
Smokin' Joe through to Euro Final
FINALLY, Joe Ingles is through to the Euroleague Championship game after his Maccabi Tel Aviv team pulled off a miracle finish in its Final Four semi-final against CSKA Moscow.
SEABL just a new cash cow
THERE can be no real reason Basketball Australia wants to annexe the SEABL competition - Australia's oldest interstate league - other than to shore up its perilous finances.
Grand finalists with announcements today
THE NBL’s 2013-14 grand finalists Perth and Adelaide are expected to make announcements today regarding key player retentions.
Suitors line up for Blitz
VEGAS may be off the NBL map for now but the league already is reviewing potential locations for its 2014 Blitz Tournament and second annual Loggins-Bruton Cup.
No 'Viva Las Vegas'?
ONE of the issues of basketball being a minor sport - albeit a major minor sport - is how many big stories slip through to the keeper without the mainstream sporting world any the wiser.
Now for Dennis the Menace
IF versatile American playmaker Stephen Dennis returns to the Tigers in anything near the form he showed at the 2014 Blitz, expect Melbourne to be an NBL Championship contender again.

