Podcasts
Download and listen to Aussie Hoopla podcast on the links below. iTunes – Spotify – Stitcher – Libsyn – TuneIn Rob Beveridge joins the podcast after leading the Australian World University team to a bronze medal to talk about what’s happening in Australian hoops right now. With 27 years of basketball coaching experiance in both Australia and Asia “Bevo” shares his…
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Download and listen to Aussie Hoopla podcast on the links below. iTunes – Spotify – Stitcher – Libsyn – TuneIn In 1995 the NBL was arguably at its peak among Australian sports history. The North Melbourne Giants were the reigning NBL champions and in a move to replace injured star Paul Maley they recruited Chris Jent, who had won…
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While Basketball Australia are currently focused on staging highest attended basketball game in Australian history when the Boomers face Team USA next month, plans are underway to outdo that in 2020. 120,000 fans will attend a two game series between the two countries on Thursday 22 and Saturday 24 August 2019 at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium…
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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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Download and listen to Aussie Hoopla podcast on the links below. iTunes – Spotify – Stitcher – Libsyn – TuneIn Darnell Mee played college basketball at Western Kentucky University before being drafted by the Golden State Warriors in the 1993 NBA Draft. After being traded to the Denver Nuggets on draft night he went on to play two seasons in the NBA competing…
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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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Download and listen to Aussie Hoopla podcast on the links below. iTunes – Spotify – Stitcher – Libsyn – TuneIn Dusty Rychart was a star at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis where he became a three year starter after being a walk-on in 1997. After missing out on the 2002 NBA draft, moved to Australia and joined the Victoria Giants for the 2002–03 NBL season. Although…
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Sydney Kings rookie Brian Bowen II, the first ever participant in the NBL’s Next Stars program wowed multiple scouts at the NBA Draft Combine this week. The six-foot-seven forward with a six-foot-ten wingspan averaged 10.5 points and 5 rebounds in a pair of combine scrimmages, making him a certainty to be drafted this year. Bowen did…
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Download this episode on iTunes Mike Helms played three seasons in the NBL for the Hunter Pirates and Singapore Slingers. He averaged 22 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists over 95 games and led both the Pirates and the Slingers to the playoffs during his time in the NBL. Now back home in…
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Download this episode on iTunes Australian Basketball Hall of Famer, recipient of the Order of Australia, four-time Olympian, part of North Melbourne’s 1989 NBL championship winning team and the first Australian to win the NBL MVP (1985)… and true-blue Ballarat boy Ray Borner joins the Aussie Hoopla podcast to talk about his NBL…
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