Michael Hill played seven seasons in the NBL, playing for both the Canberra Cannons and the Brisbane Bullets. He averaged 9.2 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 2.2 assists in 235 NBL games and was a key part of Brisbane’s 2007 championship, where he averaged 20 minutes per game coming off the bench.
After winning an NBL championship in 2007 his NBL career was cut short thanks to the ineffective salary cap solution which was the NBL Points System.
A system that was initially developed to create parity among the league and protect NBL teams from exiting the league aligned with one of the darkest periods of NBL history.
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He joins host Dan Boyce to give his first hand account of how the points system forced him to retire at age 29 despite being one of the country’s best players off the bench and how it shunted the development of Aussie hoops for a decade.
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Podcast Topics include…
- Memories from Michael’s seven seasons in the NBL (2:00)
- That time Magic Johnson suited up for the Canberra Cannons (5:00)
- Playing for the Brisbane Bullets (12:00)
- Winning the 2007 NBL Championship (18:00)
- Was Sam MacKinnon’s 2006-07 season the best individual season in NBL history (20:00)
- The end of the Brisbane Bullets in 2008 (22:00)
- The NBL Points System and how it sent Australian Basketball backwards for a decade (24:30)
All of this and a whole lot more…
Dan Boyce is a die-hard Sydney Kings fan who grew up in Melbourne during the roaring 90's of Australian Basketball and spent far too much time collecting Futera NBL Basketball cards.
