Podcasts
Dejan Vasiljevic was born in Calgary (Canada) after his family fled war-torn Serbia in the 1990s. He later moved with his family to Melbourne at the age of six and shortly after began playing basketball with the Melbourne Tigers junior program. Playing alongside other future NBL talent like Josh Giddey and Jack Purchase, it wasn’t…
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Earlier this month the Adelaide 36ers signed former San Antonio Spurs swingman Brandon Paul as a replacement for Donald Sloan. He’s set to debut with the 36ers after spending two weeks in quarantine and he joined us on the Aussie Hoopla podcast to share stories of playing overseas, his time with the Spurs and plans…
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Luke Nevill grew up playing basketball for the Stirling Senators in Western Australia. After struggling to get noticed by elite coaches in Australia he moved to the United States to play high school basketball with Kell High School in Marietta, Georgia. Nevill walked onto the team as an exchange student and in 2003–04, he averaged 17.6…
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Doc Adkins is mostly unknown to today’s NBL fans but is truly an unsung hero of the league and responsible for much of the league’s talent and success in league’s early years. Adkins began coaching in his hometown of Iowa, but soon was travelling around the world working with teams in Mozambique, Japan and eventually…
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Adam Caporn is the current head coach of Basketball Australia’s Centre of Excellence and an assistant coach with the Australian Boomers. Caporn was Australia’s first player recruited to Saint Mary’s College of California which lead to an influx of Aussie talent through the doors of Saint Mary’s that included NBL and NBA stars like Daniel…
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Luke Schenscher who played his junior basketball with the Noarlunga City Tigers left small-town Hope Forest, South Australia to attend the Australian Institute of Sport in 1999. He went from playing domestic basketball in Canberra to become the first high school student to play for the Australian Boomers in three years. His rapid development earnt…
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Head to iTunes to download this episode on your phone or iPod NBL season 2016/17 kicks off with round one and the Melbourne United are heavy favourites to be holding all the cookies at the end of the season. The resumes of United’s newest recruits feature more championships, MVP’s and Olympic appearances than half of…
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With the recent passing of Stormin’ Norman Taylor, Aussie Hoopla host Dan Boyce and Norman’s Illawarra teammate Greg Hubbard remember the player and the man who was the most effective scoring in NBL history. Taylor holds the Illawarra club record for most points in a game with 54 points, against new Hawks coach Brian Goorjian’s…
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Donald Whiteside played for the Hobart Devils from 1992-1993 after graduating from Northern Illinois University. After leaving the Devils he played in Latvia, Czech Republic and Spain before signing an NBA deal with the Toronto Raptors in 1996, six years after graduating from college. Listen to Aussie Hoopla podcast on the links below. iTunes – Spotify – Stitcher – Libsyn – TuneIn…
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After the Perth Wildcats suffered semi-final defeats to the North Melbourne Giants in 1988 and 1989 Cal Bruton, the team’s starting point guard and, funnily enough, General Manager at the time, retired from playing to focus on building a roster capable of Perth’s first NBL championship. 1990 also marked the beginning of the most exciting…
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