Melbourne United centre Ariel Hukporti has embraced a complex role to help his NBL club chase this year’s title but he’s skills look even better suited to the NBA,which he hopes is his next stop.
The NBL boss has had enough of hearing about the glory days – the boom times of the 1990s when the league was a TV staple and Andrew Gaze led the household names. The NBL might be at its zenith right now,he says.
A diehard Roosters fan,who is a filmmaker in Los Angeles,has been taking names from the team and using them in movies and TV shows for years.
Read our stories on gay basketballer Isaac Humphries,Collingwood captain Darcy Moore and the Eddie Jones saga that were voted among last year’s best sports writing.
The NBA All-Star game is supposed to showcase basketball’s brightest talents,but Chicago Bulls great Scottie Pippen says high scoring does not equal entertaining and the lack of competitive spirit is bad for the sport.
New Zealand are adamant their march towards an NBL Finals campaign remains on track after they defied an early injury to star import Anthony Lamb to break their Perth curse and shake up the post-season picture.
They are 22 of the city’s hottest young athletes,and they’re all poised to thrive in 2024.
Sydney owner Paul Smith calls it NBL’s State of Origin. This is the story of how the Kings turned Christmas Day into game day.
Mitch Norton’s attempted game-winner was released a fraction of a second after the final buzzer and Cairns have hung on to beat Brisbane 102-101 in an epic finish to their NBL derby.
A Brisbane Bullets star never quite appreciated the enormity of the company he was in growing up. Now,that wisdom holds the key to a title charge.
Rocco Zikarsky is one of the most exciting young talents in Australian basketball. He outgrew the family home,literally,and is on course for the NBA draft in 2025.