Author: Dan Boyce
After receiving almost 10,000 nominations from the Tasmanian public the state’s new NBL team name will be the “JackJumpers”. After the league shortlisted the names submitted from the Tasmanian public to five, the Timbers, Mountaineers, Pride, Tridents and JackJumpers the entries reduced to a head to head battle between the Tasmania Tridents and the Tasmania…
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Listen to Aussie Hoopla podcast on the links below. iTunes – Spotify – Stitcher – Libsyn – TuneIn Donald Sloan has signed to play with the Adelaide 36ers for season 2020-21. Coming off a stint with Baskets Bonn in the Basketball Bundesliga, and will be the only import on Conner Henry’s largely local roster and will play alongside NBL Next…
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Nunawading Basketball was established in 1969. In 1979, a Nunawading Spectres men’s team entered the National Basketball League for its inaugural season. Barry Barnes would coach the team during every NBL season until the team decided to move into the CBD to facilitate more fans and, in doing so, were renamed the Eastside Melbourne Spectres….
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The Hawks are expected to announce they have signed Boise State University wing Justinian Jessup to an NBL Next Stars agreement for the 2020-21 NBL season. Jessup, who was coached by NBL legend John Rillie in his freshman year at Boise State averaged 16 points, 4.4 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per game last season in…
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The Perth Wildcats have signed local seven-footer Andrew Ferguson as a development player for the 2020/21 NBL season. The Perth born big man developed his game with the Lakeside Lightning as a junior before attending Basketball Australia’s Centre of Excellence from 2013 to 2016. Standing 213cm centre Ferguson represented Western Australia at the Under-20 National…
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Listen to Aussie Hoopla podcast on the links below. iTunes – Spotify – Stitcher – Libsyn – TuneIn Barry Barnes is arguably the most successful Boomers coach ever. With a record of 119 wins and 53 losses as head coach, an outstanding 69% win percentage, and having led the national team to two fourth-place finishes (1996 and 2000) his resume…
Read MoreAlthough it’s been rumoured for weeks and up on our Free Agent Tracker, today the Adelaide 36ers announced the signing of former NBA guard Donald Sloan for the 2020-21 NBL season. Sloan played 218 career NBA games, the majority with the Indiana Pacers in 2013-2015 where he was a key part of the team’s rotation….
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“The trash Gary Payton was saying to me, it was laughable, like I’m going to kill you after the game… literally, just silly stuff. I guess when I asked if there was a hole in ‘the Glove’ he didn’t appreciate it” – Shane Heal sharing Trash Talking stories of when he went head to head…
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It seems the shortlist for Tasmania’s future NBL team has been finalised with the NBL filing for trademarks five new team names last week. Seems like we’re down a shortlist of five names for the new Tasmania team. These names were trademarked last week… shame there’s no devils or huskies pic.twitter.com/WwJsYHJKUQ — AussieHoopla (@aussiehoopla) August…
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Breakers owner Matt Walsh has proposed that the NBL play in an NBA Restart style hub based in New Zealand for the first half of the season. A scenario where all nine teams would play their first 14 games in various cities around the country before returning to an Australian based hub or normal operation…
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