Author: Dan Boyce
More teams, more games and an online presence are crucial says the Australian’s Sally Jackson IT has been a decades-long timeout but, following an extensive restructure this year, the newly revived National Basketball League has a game plan to boost its media coverage and win back lost audiences. New NBL chief executive Fraser Neill, at a Sydney…
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Do you remember Handle Magazine? It was a great Australian basketball magazine available in newsagents all across Australia from 2005 to 2009. It was published bi-monthly and recently I touched base with Brad Graham who was the Editor-In-Chief / Art Director of Handle Magazine. After the demise of Handle Magazine Brad has continued to produce great Australian produced NBA…
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Australian Basketball History was made today when Australian born players Matthew Dellavedova, Patty Mills, Aron Baynes and Kyrie Irving all took the floor today during the San Antonio Spurs 126-96 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers. This year’s NBA season is a huge on for Australian’s with 5 Australian born players currently playing in the…
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What odds would the TAB have given Matthew Dellavedova, a kid from the small town of Maryborough with a population of 7,630, to make an NBA roster? What odds would the TAB have given this same kid who was passed on 60 times during the 2013 NBA draft to be able to earn his way into an…
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“He was one of the most driven players I’ve ever seen and highly misunderstood. He’d push people to the ground but that was because he was a winner and he’d only accept 100%… he felt you had to dive on the loose balls, you had to get after rebounds and run the floor, that’s who he was” –…
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Sam Young’s signing with the Sydney Kings this week should deliver a strong message that the demerger between the NBL and Basketball Australia has already proven to be the jump start needed to return the league to its former glory. The potential benefits of investing in a higher quality import to help market the NBL…
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“Never say never, (The Boomers) would be a nice thing to be a part of… I don’t know where they are going to finish but I look at it and it’s a very, very, very good team. Australia finally has not only that mix of NBA players but NBA players who love to represent their…
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The “Hyping the Hoopla” team of Dan Boyce and Cairns Taipans NBL.tv commentator Matt Smith (who also has 150 games of NBL experience) welcome new addition Rhys Carter (2009 NBL Championship player) to the Hyping the Hoopla team to discuss the what’s what and the who’s who in Australian Basketball news over the past month. Head…
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The “Hyping the Hoopla” return to iTunes as the voice of the best Australian Basketball podcast on the net, Dan Boyce and Cairns Taipans NBL.tv Matt Smith (who also has 150 games of NBL experience) to discuss the hirings and firings of each team on a new NBL podcast in preparation for the 2013/14 season….
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Jack Purchase, son of Melbourne Tigers Legend Nigel Purchase, has committed to playing with the Auburn Tigers in 2014. The Carey Grammar student who was also pursued heavily by TAC Cup team Northern Knights in the hopes he would choose football over basketball committed to the Tigers only five days after officially visiting Auburn. As of…
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