Author: Dan Boyce
With Australia’s largest basketball event in the rear view mirror, we look forward to FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 set to tip off next week in China. In a similar fashion, the event will be the largest ever produced by FIBA and in turn will deliver the most ambitious TV, digital and social media coverage…
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Queensland’s Georgia Woolley was named camp MVP at the 2019 Basketball without Borders (BWB) Asia camp held in Tokyo, Japan this week. Wooley, who also recently competed at the recent U18 National Championships in Townsville was joined by Victorian duo Emily Sewell and Keeley Evans and New South Wales’ Ruby-Belle Macdonald and Isabelle Morgan. Australia also had…
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Download and listen to Aussie Hoopla podcast on the links below. iTunes – Spotify – Stitcher – Libsyn – TuneIn Cairns Taipans commentator and veteran of 116 NBL games Matt Smith joins Aussie Hoopla host Dan Boyce breaking down exactly what happened in the Boomers 20 point loss to Canada and why it’s downright silly for Aussie Hoops fans…
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Mitch Creek seemed like a lock for the Boomers Team to play in the World Championships. He had improved in leaps and bounds over the last 12 months. He’d gone from the G League NBA where he said, “I’ve never had my shot blocked so much in my life,” to a starter in the same league,…
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When unexpected things happen, it’s easy to look past logic for emotion and the decision which led to Mitch Creek’s omission from the Australia Boomers FIBA World Cup team was certainly unexpected. As a result, it led to many emotional social media post abusing Boomers head coach Anrej Lemanis for this “terrible decision” amidst claims of…
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Download and listen to Aussie Hoopla podcast on the links below. iTunes – Spotify – Stitcher – Libsyn – TuneIn Aussie Hoopla writers Jarrad Hurley and Marco Selorio join Dan Boyce on the podcast to talk about the Boomers 12 man roster for the FIBA World Cup, Mitch Creek’s omission and if there is some Brisbane Bullets bias or not when…
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Download and listen to Aussie Hoopla podcast on the links below. iTunes – Spotify – Stitcher – Libsyn – TuneIn Rob Beveridge joins the podcast after leading the Australian World University team to a bronze medal to talk about what’s happening in Australian hoops right now. With 27 years of basketball coaching experiance in both Australia and Asia “Bevo” shares his…
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SBS and ESPN have become the new home of basketball with a two-year deal to broadcast NBL games being announced today. The deal will also include televising the upcoming international games between Australia, US, Canada and New Zealand and SBS plans to broadcast the 2019-20 NBA season within this agreement also. SBS will broadcast every game of the…
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Download and listen to Aussie Hoopla podcast on the links below. iTunes – Spotify – Stitcher – Libsyn – TuneIn In 1995 the NBL was arguably at its peak among Australian sports history. The North Melbourne Giants were the reigning NBL champions and in a move to replace injured star Paul Maley they recruited Chris Jent, who had won…
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While Basketball Australia are currently focused on staging highest attended basketball game in Australian history when the Boomers face Team USA next month, plans are underway to outdo that in 2020. 120,000 fans will attend a two game series between the two countries on Thursday 22 and Saturday 24 August 2019 at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium…
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