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In its first game of a four-game tour of Australia, the Eastern Kentucky University men’s basketball team lost 76-65 to the Sydney Kings at the Sutherland Basketball Stadium. The fact that Eastern Kentucky had landed in Sydney a mere 24 hours prior to the game was hidden behind some great energy and focus as the…
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Jamar Wilson has put pen to paper and will play the 2014/15 NBL season with the Adelaide 36ers. The 36ers decided not to re-sign Gary Ervin who despite a very exciting playing style combined with the fact he averaged 20 ppg and 4.5 apg often came under fire under coach Joey Wright during the season….
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The NBA often discuss which draft class is the greatest in their history. The NBL does not have a draft, however there is often a year that we see a high influx of young talent enter the league all at once. The NBL used to pay tribute to this fact every year during the…
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“After my second year with the Tigers Lindsay retires, Drewey retires, Copes and Bradtke went on to Brisbane and Chris Anstey had come in. I hadn’t talked to anybody and nobody came and spoke to me so I signed a deal with Wollongong” – Darryl McDonald shares how he agreed to play with Wollongong Hawks…
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“It was a different time… the worst racism often came from the white american imports, one said I thought I left America to get away from you n*ggas… that was when the fight broke out, and the league took a bit of a stand after that” – Cal Bruton discusses racism in the early days of…
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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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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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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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Cody Ellis will not play for the Perth Wildcats, the team his father played 302 NBL games for, instead deciding to wear the purple and gold after he decided today to sign a two year deal with the Sydney Kings. Ellis returns to Australia upon completion of his communications degree at the University of…
Read MoreThe WNBL and NBL are two ‘no-go’ zones for writers when it comes to discussion about free-to-air coverage (all it does is create havoc on your twitter account). I enjoy the havoc, so I welcome this topic with open arms. Last year the NBL announced a landmark agreement where all NBL games will be broadcast…
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