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It’s an excellent time to be an NBL basketball fan. The talent level is as good as it has ever been but the league is still mostly equal. Excluding the first placed Sydney Kings and the last on the table Adelaide 36ers, every another team has a net point rating of only one basket. A…
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With the news of sweeping changes to the NBL’s salary situation, there’s a real opportunity to not only increase the league’s popularity in the short term, but solidify the sport of basketball in Australia in the general public’s conscious for years to come. The answer: long term NBL imports. Thinking back to the…
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Playing basketball is great, I’m sure we can all agree on that. Running around, getting exercise, hanging out with your mates, what’s not to like? And the people! There are so many crazy characters out there that it’s almost as fun people watching than it is to be playing. I’ve been playing for near on…
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The Australia Emu’s, Basketball Australia’s Junior Men’s team have defeated New Zealand’s Junior Tall Blacks across three straight games at the FIBA Oceania U19 Championships at Porirua this week. New Zealand kept it reasonably close until half-time, Wellington’s Tom Vodanovich banking a three-pointer just before half time resulted in the Kiwi’s only being down…
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Young Aussie Tyro Mirko Djeric is currently trialling with Serbian superclub KK Partizan. The club competes in the Serbian League, Adriatic League and the Euroleague and is the most successful basketball club in Serbia. KK Partizan is the defending Serbian basketball champion and currently holds 19 league titles, having won the last eleven of them consecutively. It has been the breeding…
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Andrew “A.J.” Ogilvy has signed with the German Bundesliga most successful team, the Brose Baskets Bamberg. Brose Baskets are the most successful team in Germany. The team features Stanford grad and former NBA player Casey Jacobsen and has won five German League titles since 2005, including having won the past three titles in a row. The also…
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Gran Canaria has announced it has signed Australian Boomers swingman Brad Newley for 2012-13. After a strong Olympic campaign Lower Mitcham, SA basketball product Brad Newley has signed to play with Gran Canaria of the Spanish ACB league. Gran Carina is part of the Canary Island’s and the ninth largest city in Spain. Newley played…
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Written by Kevin Pelton During Sunday’s exhibition game between the USA men’s national team and Argentina, NBA TV’s duo of Steve Smith and Larry Smith repeatedly noted that Argentina is ranked third in the world. But what does that mean? FIBA’s rankings are based on performance over a two-Olympic cycle, which means that Argentina’s lofty ranking–behind…
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SOUTHERN Peninsula Sharks have re-signed high-flying import Manny Hendrix for next season’s BIGV Division 1 competition. With one game left of the season Hendrix has averaged 28 points per game this year, won the slam dunk competition in the all-star game last month and created excitement around the Southern Peninsula basketball program. “I like the way the Sharks are headed, I love…
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David BARLOW, 28, will continue to play for UCAM Murcia next season after signing a two-year contract extension with an option on the second year. Last season Barlow averaged a respectable 8.1 ppg and 4.9 rpg through 34 games in Spanish League where fellow Australian Boomers Joe Ingles (FC Barcelona) and Brad Newley (Valencia…
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