Posts Tagged "Brisbane Bullets"
For the NBL to fire, they need to load up the Bullets
By Kris Swales, 25 Oct 2012
It was somewhere around the first Friday in October that it all came back to me – take Friday Night Football out of the equation, and I have no life.
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What’s really holding back the NBL
By Michael DiFabrizio, 20 Jan 2012 There’s no shortage of NBL fans willing to complain about this season’s TV situation. With games being shown by One on delay at 10.30pm, it’s a fairly valid thing to complain about.
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Is this really the NBL’s great leap forward?
By Guy Hand, 15 Jul 2011 Two years ago, the NBL was a joke. Clubs were folding, some former high-profile owners were spending more time in courts of law than the basketball kind, and all involved were feeling a financial pinch.
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NBL pay TV feast, for Breakers fans
By Laine Clark, 26 Aug 2009 Basketball fans can look forward to a feast of live NBL action … from the New Zealand Breakers. The NBL on Tuesday trumpeted their broadcast schedule with pay TV’s Fox Sports for the streamlined new competition starting next month.
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Where to from here for Australian basketball?
By The Crowd, 26 Jan 2009 As the 2008/2009 NBL basketball season draws to a conclusion, many Aussie basketball fans are asking, “who cares!”
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Players from both the Sydney Spirit and Cairns Taipans are seeing out the season on half their normal salaries. Both clubs saw their owners pull out mid-season.
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Boomers star takes swipe at “crap owners”
By Guy Hand, 13 Dec 2008 Olympian Mark Worthington says the financial demise of several NBL clubs may be good for Australian basketball in the long term with poor owners being weeded out of the ailing sport.
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Financial crisis hits another NBL club
By Roger Vaughan, 10 Dec 2008 Another financial crisis has rocked the NBL, with the Cairns Taipans stunning league officials by going into voluntary administration.
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Basketball’s reform a poisoned chalice
By Michael DiFabrizio, 2 Dec 2008 Credit must be given to basketball administrators for recently voting unanimously to merge Basketball Australia and the NBL and adopt recommendations set out by a wide-ranging review. It’s clearly a step in the right direction.
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Spirit likely to vanish from the NBL
By James Dampney, 26 Nov 2008 Sydney is likely to have no presence in the NBL following the crushing announcement that the Spirit are set to go into administration this week.
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NBL finally makes an appearance
By AAP, 17 Oct 2008 Having flown under the radar for the first two months of their season, the NBL is finally about to pop up on Australian television screens.
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Plenty of Spirit as Goorjian takes aim at Sydney
By James Dampney, 15 Oct 2008 NBL coaching great Brian Goorjian believes the Sydney Spirit are being precious if they can’t see the importance of the Sydney Kings’ return to the national competition.
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NBL must get it right this time, says Mackinnon
By Guy Hand, 13 Sep 2008 NBL star Sam Mackinnon says the ailing competition needs a total rethink if basketball is to re-establish itself in the Australian sporting marketplace.
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NBL agree on new TV deal just month out from season
By Philip Henderson, 15 Aug 2008 The NBL has finally secured television coverage for its upcoming season, although basketball fans may have to wait nearly a month into the competition to watch games live on Fox Sports.
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An NBL A-League is not answer, says Gaze
By Guy Hand, 25 Jul 2008 Australian basketball legend Andrew Gaze says an A-League type overhaul of the NBL is not the answer to fixing the issues currently facing the competition.
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The NBL is in dire straits
By The Crowd, 8 Jul 2008 The Future of the National Basketball League is in dire straits after two of the league’s thirteen teams failed to renew their licenses to compete in the 08/09 season.
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NBL go for Mac attack approach
By Greg Buckle, 4 Jul 2008 Would you like fries with that NBL licence? NBL chief Chuck Harmison said today he wanted to make taking over a team franchise like buying into a McDonald’s restaurant. Should rugby poach the best young basketballers?
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Bogut hopes Boomers can help floundering Aussie hoops
By Guy Hand, 26 Jun 2008 Basketball star Andrew Bogut believes the Boomers’ Olympic performance will go a long way to revealing how bright Australian basketball’s future is.
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BA-NBL merge but results not known until Oct
By Laine Clark, 25 Jun 2008 Basketball Australia (BA) and the NBL have merged as part of a sweeping review of the sport in the country. But the full impact of the commissioned review, which is expected to usher in a revamp of the battling NBL, won’t be known until at least October. Committed Boomer still has NBA aspirations
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Mystery over Bullets continues
By Wayne Heming, 20 Jun 2008 The fate of the Brisbane Bullets is in the hands of owner Eddy Groves who has 10 days before handing back his NBL licence.
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