2024-25 NBL Season

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Carn the Hawks.

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Game 1

Melbourne 96 (Dellavedova 18, Goulding 15, Lee 14, Clark 13, Ili 13) def Illawarra 88 (Froling 16, Hickey 14, Blanchfield 13, Swaka Lo Buluk 11)

United lead the series 1-0

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The NBL have announced the New Orleans Pelicans will be the first NBA team to play games in Australia against Melbourne United on Friday, October 3 and against SE Melbourne Phoenix on Sunday, October 5 with both games to be played at Melbourne Park.

https://nbl.com.au/news/pelicans-to-pla ... -australia

Also Ice Cube's Big3 3x3 league will be holding an international Big3 Showcase in Australia which will bring some of the Big3's top players to Australian cities in November.

https://nbl.com.au/news/big3-comes-to-australia

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Game 2

Illawarra 102 (Harvey 24, Froling 23, Kell 18, Swaka Lo Buluk 12) def Melbourne 100 (Clark 31, Goulding 17, Dellavedova 14, Krebs 12)

Series level 1-1

Also the Sydney Kings have announced part-owner Andrew Bogut will be joining Brian Goorjian's coaching staff next season as an assistant coach.

https://nbl.com.au/news/bogut-joins-kin ... hing-staff

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Basketball Australia have announced Adam Caporn as the new Boomers coach. Caporn is currently an assistant coach with the Washington Wizards has previously been the head coach of the Long Island Nets in the G-League and played in the NBL with the Perth Wildcats and the Wollongong/Illawarra Hawks.

https://nbl.com.au/news/report-australi ... -new-coach

Melbourne United coach Dean Vickerman has also been named as one of Caporn's assistants and will coach the Boomers during FIBA window periods.

Also the Perth Wildcats have re-signed import Kristian Doolittle to a 3 year deal.

https://nbl.com.au/news/wildcats-lock-in-star-import

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Seems to me like a record amount of NBL players playing overseas during the off-season outside of the usual state leagues and NZ league. Great to see.

Adelaide - Kendric Davis (China), Montrezl Harrell (China/Big3), Jarell Martin (South Korea)

Brisbane - Casey Prather (China), Keandre Cook (China), James Batemon (Spain), Tyrell Harrison (Puerto Rico)

Cairns - Rob Edwards (China), Tanner Groves (Japan), Pedro Brashaw (Germany), Taran Armstrong (NBA/G-League), Sam Waardenburg (Puerto Rico), Akoldah Gak (G-League), Kyrin Galloway (Japan)

NZ Breakers - Parker Jackson-Cartwright (Lithuania), Matt Mooney (Puerto Rico), Tacko Fall (China), Jonah Bolden (Puerto Rico), Sam Mennenga (Puerto Rico), Mojave King (Puerto Rico)

Perth - Bryce Cotton (Puerto Rico), Kristian Doolittle (Puerto Rico), Keanu Pinder (China), Tai Webster (France)

SE Melbourne - Nathan Sobey (Puerto Rico), Jordan Hunter (Puerto Rico), Angus Glover (Germany), Ben Ayre (Germany)

Sydney - Cameron Oliver (China), Kouat Noi (China)

Tasmania - Milton Doyle (Puerto Rico), Jordon Crawford (Turkey), Will Magnay (Turkey), Majok Deng (Egypt), Fabijan Krslovic (Germany)

https://nbl.com.au/news/nbl25-off-season-tracker

Game 3 of the NBL GF series Melbourne at Illawarra is live at 5pm on ESPN & 10 Bold on Sunday.

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Game 3

Melbourne 83 (White 20, Clark 16, Dellavedova 16, Goulding 14) def Illawarra 77 (Hickey 12, Days 11, Kell 10, Swaka Lo Buluk 10)

United lead the series 2-1

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The NBL have announced that the Free Agency period will begin on Friday, April 4 and all team/player/mutual options on contracts must be accepted or declined by Monday, March 31 with a full Free Agents list to be made public on Tuesday, April 1st.

https://nbl.com.au/news/free-agency-begins-april-4

Game 4 of the GF series Illawarra at Melbourne will be at 7pm on Wednesday live on ESPN & 10 Bold.