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A smaller, scrappier Australia made do without big man Aron Baynes in an 89-76 win over Germany on Saturday night but the Boomers have work to do before the knockout quarter-finals. Since Sydney 2000, the Boomers have had NBA-calibre centres such as Luc Longley, Andrew Bogut and Baynes at their disposal but Baynes’ neck injury […]
The Brisbane Bullets have retained the services of Lamar Patterson, but the three-time NBL champions are facing a tough battle in their bid to bring another American star, Vic Law, back to Queensland. Two-time All-NBL first team selection Patterson has signed a new one-year deal with the Bullets, much to the delight of new Brisbane […]
The Australian Boomers gold medal hopes have taken a blow with three-time Olympian Aron Baynes ruled out for the rest of the Tokyo Olympics. The NBA championship-winning centre took an awkward fall in the win over Italy and subsequent tests have revealed a neck injury which will keep him out of the remainder of the […]
TOKYO – One of his playing positions is small forward, but Slovenian basketball star Luka Doncic is carrying not just his team but the hopes of two million countrymen on his shoulders at the Olympics. On Thursday (July 29), the 22-year-old he led his team to a 116-81 Group C win over hosts Japan, putting […]
Australian point guard Josh Giddey will find out where he will begin his NBA career when the US league hosts its annual player draft on Friday AEST. Last year’s draft was held virtually due to America’s COVID-19 struggles but this year they have invited 20 of the most likely selections to attend the draft in […]
The NBL’s global rise is set to reach more eyeballs after the league signed a groundbreaking broadcast and content deal with Foxtel and News Corp that is being trumpeted as the best in the competition’s history. Every game of the NBL season and finals will be live on ESPN, broadcast on Foxtel and streamed on […]
The NBL’s global rise is set to reach more eyeballs after the league signed a groundbreaking broadcast and content deal with Foxtel and News Corp that is being trumpeted as the best in the competition’s history. Every game of the NBL season and finals will be live on ESPN, broadcast on Foxtel and streamed on […]
The rise in prominence of the National Basketball League continues, this time with the league set to reveal a record new broadcast rights deal of more than $45 million with Foxtel, ESPN and News Corporation. Sources have confirmed NBL owner Larry Kestelman was set to confirm on Tuesday that the league had extended its deal […]
Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Jalen Suggs might be off to the NBA, but preseason top-five teams Gonzaga and UCLA are set to square off in November in a rematch of their epic Final Four game from early April that ended on Suggs’ buzzer-beater from just inside half […]
Each Boomers roster is unique but it only took a few sessions for Matthew Dellavedova to see that the Tokyo Olympic side was like no previous national team. Throughout the years the Boomers have forged close-knit teams who fight until the final buzzer and this team is no different, but what has changed is their […]