SA Footy

The Sydney Kings have announced the signing of their first import Derrick Walton to a one-year deal. He's a 6'0" PG who has previously played in the NBA with Miami, LA Clippers and Detroit and spent most of last season playing in the G-League along with a brief stint with Detroit.

https://nbl.com.au/news/sydney-sign-imp ... -walton-jr

As well the Brisbane Bullets have signed Sudanese-Australian Gorjok Gak to a one-year deal. The 6'11" centre played last season in the Czech Republic.

https://nbl.com.au/news/gorjok-gak-signs-with-bullets

Basketball Australia have named the Boomers team for the FIBA Asia Cup in Jakarta to defend our gold medal from 2017.

FIBA ASIA CUP BOOMERS TEAM:

Alex Ducas
Sam Froling
Thon Maker
Mitch McCarron
Sam McDaniel
David Okwera
Keanu Pinder
Tyrese Proctor
Clint Steindl
Wani Swaka Lo Buluk
Rhys Vague
Will McDowell-White

The tournament starts on Tuesday July 12 when the Boomers play Jordan at 6pm EST.

Also former NBL player and Boomers assistant coach Adam Caporn has signed with the Brooklyn Nets as an assistant coach.

https://www.nba.com/nets/news/2022/07/0 ... hing-staff

The Perth Wildcats have announced they've signed former 36ers championship player and current Boomers assistant coach John Rillie as their new coach on a 3 year deal. Rillie has spent the past 11 years as an assistant coach in the NCAA, spending six years with Boise State and the last five years with the University of California, Santa Barbara.

https://nbl.com.au/news/john-rillie-nam ... cats-coach

The Cairns Taipans have announced the signing of their second import D.J. Hogg to a one-year deal. He's a 6'9" forward who played in France last season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/taipans-sign-im ... rd-dj-hogg

Also tonight the Boomers won their opening game of the Asia Cup beating Jordan 78-60. Next up is Saudi Arabia on Thursday.

Australia 78 (Maker 23, Froling 16) def Jordan 60 (Tucker 20, Al Dwairi 10)

The SE Melbourne Phoenix have announced the signing of their second import Trey Kell to a one-year deal. He's a 6'4" SG who is a naturalised Syrian and plays for their national team and played in Italy last season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/south-east-melb ... -trey-kell

Also tonight the Boomers beat Saudi Arabia at the Asia Cup 78-52 with host nation Indonesia up next on Saturday.

Australia 78 (Maker 16, Proctor 15, Pinder 13, Froling 10, McCarron 10) def Saudi Arabia 52 (Belal 16, Abdel-Gabar 14)

The Boomers last night won their final group stage game against Indonesia at the Asia Cup and have advanced to the Quarter Finals on Thursday.

Australia 78 (Proctor 14, Maker 11, Vague 11, Froling 10, Pinder 10) def Indonesia 53 (Bolden 18)

Some great news Melbourne United forward Jack White is off to the NBA signing a two-way contract with the Denver Nuggets.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/basketball ... 5b2dh.html

Also the Sydney Kings have announced the signing of their second import Justin Simon on a one-year deal. Simon won the NBL's Best Defensive Player award when he played for the Illawarra Hawks in the 2020-21 season and he spent last season playing in Germany where he also won that league's defensive player of the year award.

https://nbl.com.au/news/justin-simon-joins-kings

Tonight the Boomers beat Japan in their Asia Cup QF and will now play Korea or New Zealand in the semi-finals on Saturday.

Australia 99 (Maker 21, Vague 19, Froling 15) def Japan 85 (Tominaga 33, Togashi 14, Inoue 11)

Also the NBL have announced an Australian sporting first playing a game on Christmas Day this season when Sydney hosts Melbourne live at 7pm on both 10 Peach and ESPN. The 36ers will play a Christmas Eve game against SE Melbourne at AEC live from 5pm on ESPN. Melbourne will also play an open-air game against Cairns on December 23.

https://nbl.com.au/news/nbl-makes-christmas-history

The Cairns Taipans have also announced the signing of guard Ben Ayre to a 2 year deal. The former 36ers Development Player spent some time with the Taipans last season as an injury replacement player.

https://nbl.com.au/news/taipans-sign-be ... -year-deal

The Boomers have advanced to the Asia Cup Final on Sunday where they will play the winner of Jordan and Lebanon after beating New Zealand in the semi-finals tonight.

Australia 85 (Maker 18, McDowell-White 15, McCarron 13, Proctor 13, Pinder 11) def New Zealand 76 (Hunt 16, Timmins 16, Cameron 15, Perrott-Hunt 11)

Also in NBL news Melbourne United have announced they've signed former 36ers centre Isaac Humphries to a one-year deal.

https://nbl.com.au/news/united-lands-big-signing

In tonight's final Australia held on for a narrow win the Boomers beating Lebanon 75-73 to win back to back Asia Cups. In the bronze medal game New Zealand beat Jordan 83-75.

Australia 75 (Maker 14, McCarron 12, Proctor 10) def Lebanon 73 (Arakji 28, Haidar 23)

The Perth Wildcats have announced the signing of their second import TaShawn Thomas to a one-year deal. He's a 6'8" F/C who played in France last season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/wildcats-sign-i ... awn-thomas

Also Melbourne United have announced they've signed Kiwi guard Shea Ili to a two-year contract extension putting him under contract until 2025.

https://nbl.com.au/news/ili-commits-to- ... wo-seasons

Finally the NBL have released the season schedule for the upcoming 2022-23 season:

https://api.nbl.com.au/nbl/assets/b4zh6madddkwokc8

The 36ers have byes in the first two rounds of the season which may suggest an NBA pre-season game is on the cards. The Sixers open their season Thursday October 13 against Tasmania at AEC.

The 36ers have announced changes to their Basketball Department headlined by former Boomers assistant coach and longtime NBL assistant Mick Downer joining CJ Bruton's coaching staff as an assistant coach, Alf Connolly as Strength & Conditioning Coach, Mike Conway as Emotional Agility & Mind Coach, and Tristan Chai as Head of Medical.

https://www.adelaide36ers.com/news/36er ... department

Also the NZ Breakers have announced the signing of their second import Jarrell Brantley to a one-year deal. He's a 6'7" forward who has previously played in the NBA with the Utah Jazz and played in Russia and the G-League last season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/breakers-thrill ... st-signing

Baynes signs at Brisbane for 2 years

Jim05 wrote:Baynes signs at Brisbane for 2 years

Big coup by the Bullets, great for the NBL and great for Aron Baynes too having not played since that shocking neck injury at the Tokyo Olympics last year.

https://nbl.com.au/news/aron-baynes-comeback-complete

The Illawarra Hawks have announced they've signed South Sudanese-Australian Mangok Mathiang to a one-year deal. He's a 6'10" F/C who has previously played in the NBA with the Charlotte Hornets and most recently played in Slovenia but missed last season due to a broken leg.

https://nbl.com.au/news/mathiang-signs-with-hawks

Also the Sydney Kings have announced the signing of their third import Tim Soares to a one-year deal. He's a 6'11" centre from Brazil and played in Israel last season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/sydney-soares-w ... st-signing

Finally coach CJ Bruton has confirmed that Kai Sotto will be coming back to play for the 36ers this upcoming season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/bruton-reveals- ... nbl-future

Melbourne United have lost another player to the NBA with Matthew Dellavedova signing a one-year deal with the Sacramento Kings.

https://nbl.com.au/news/delly-nba-bound-with-sacramento

Also the Brisbane Bullets have announced the signing of their first import Tyler Johnson to a one-year deal. He's a 6'3" guard who played 8 years in the NBA averaging 13.7 ppg with Miami in the 2016-17 season and also played with Phoenix, Brooklyn and divided his time between Philadelphia & San Antonio last season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/bullets-add-exciting-import

The Perth Wildcats have announced the signing of their third import Brady Manek to a one-year deal. He's a 6'9" PF who just finished playing his college ball at North Carolina.

https://nbl.com.au/news/perth-locks-in-third-import

Adelaide to play Oklahoma City Thunder and Phoenix Suns in October

Brodlach wrote:Adelaide to play Oklahoma City Thunder and Phoenix Suns in October

Great news for the 36ers and hopefully Giddey and Landale will be playing in those games.

Melbourne United have announced the signing of their first import Rayjon Tucker to a one-year deal. He's a 6'3" guard who has previously played in the NBA with Utah, Philadelphia and Denver and last season played predominantly in the G-League and played a couple of games with the Milwaukee Bucks at the end of the season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/melbourne-signs ... le-athlete

Also the NBL have announced big changes to the Finals format starting this season with play-in games being introduced like in the NBA. The Top 2 teams at the end of the season will automatically qualify for the Semi-Finals series and the 3rd to 6th place teams will compete in pay-in games with the SF remaining best of 3 and Grand Final remaining best of 5.

https://nbl.com.au/news/new-finals-shake-up