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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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The 12-man Australian Boomers team that will compete at the FIBA World Cup and the lead-up games in Perth and Melbourne has been announced today, Wednesday, August 7. The team features two players who are set to make their national team debuts. Jonah Bolden and Xavier Cooks have been selected for the first time after…
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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 With Basketball Australia in the media heavily over the past twelve months with the Boomers “basketbrawl” in the Philippines, bringing Team USA to Australia to face the Boomers in two sell-out games, choosing to dissolve the SEABL and recently deciding…
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The NBL is experiencing constant growth in attendance, interest and hype both domestically and internationally. This compares to the feeling around the often dubbed ‘peak’ of the A-League around the 2013-14 season where attendance and viewership were high, the league had marquee talents such as Alessandro Del Piero and the national team was filled with…
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Sixteen-time NBA champions Los Angeles Lakers are in the midst of free agency. They only have four NBA players on their current roster, including incoming rookie Talen Horton-Tucker, swingman Kyle Kuzma and future Hall of Famers LeBron James and Anthony Davis. They recently extended qualifying offers to guard Alex Caruso and forward Johnathan Williams. Potentially,…
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Basketball in Newcastle is booming and as a result a brand new 10-court facility, which will include a 4,000 seat show court, after securing $25 million in funding through this week’s state budget. The venue has been built with a plan to launch the regions inaugural WNBL team and possibly an NBL team back to the…
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Download and listen to Aussie Hoopla podcast on the links below. iTunes – Spotify – Stitcher – Libsyn – TuneIn Benny Lewis played 250 games in the NBL and was one of the most potent scorers of the 1980’s. He arrived in the NBL in 1981, signing with Illawarra and averaging 20.5 points per game in his first season. He…
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Last year the Sydney Kings Amritpal Singh made history by becoming the first Indian born player to compete in the National Basketball League. At 27 years old Singh had already achieved arguably more than any basketball player India has produced. He had captained the national team, led India to some key international victories and after…
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James Harden, Anthony Davis and Damien Lillard are apparently not enough for Australian basketball fans, many of whom have slammed the 20-man Team USA squad announced today to take on the Boomers in Melbourne, as ‘underwhelming’. There are even calls from some to refund or sell their tickets. But calls to refund their tickets are…
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