2020-21 NBL Season + Off-season news

[Gozu]

Aussie big and ex-Brisbane Bullet Will Magnay made his NBA debut in the Pelicans win over the Lakers yesterday.

[Gozu]

In NBA trade deadline deals overnight ex-36er Terrence Ferguson has been traded from Philadelphia to New York and ex-Breaker RJ Hampton has been traded from Denver to Orlando.

[Brodlach]

TFerg at his third team already

[DOC]

Perhaps he needs to come back for a refresher.

[Gozu]

It doesn't look like T. Ferg has much time left in the NBA but still I don't think he would tear up the NBL or anything.

I forgot to mention at the time Ex-Bullet/Taipan Torrey Craig was traded from Milwaukee to Phoenix about a week ago too.

[Gozu]

Golden State Warriors GM Bob Myers is considering calling up Justinian Jessup from the NBL:

https://nbl.com.au/news/warriors-consid ... -up-jessup

[DOC]

Big loss for them if it happens.

Speaking of big losses, SEM lost 60-80 to Melbourne tonight. Missing Creek big time.

[Gozu]

Qtr time

Taipans 24
Sixers 18

[Gozu]

H/T

Taipans 46
Sixers 34

[Gozu]

3QT

Taipans 58
Sixers 50

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Final

Taipans 79
Sixers 65

[Jim05]

Better start embracing the spoon because it’s headed to Adelaide

[Gozu]

TFerg at his third team already

Ferguson's now been cut by the Knicks.

[Gozu]

Unfortunate news for ex-Breakers/United centre Alex Pledger he's been diagnosed with colorectal cancer.

https://nbl.com.au/news/pledger-begins- ... -diagnosis

Also with Brisbane going into 3 day lockdown due to Covid-19 the NBL have announced schedule changes for Round 12 starting on Thursday.

https://nbl.com.au/news/round-12-schedule-changes

[Gozu]

Round 11 results:

Melbourne 82 (Ili 16, McCarron 16, Goulding 13, Landale 12) def NZ Breakers 79 (Delany 17, Kendle 13, Bach 12, Iverson 11, Weeks 10)

Perth 81 (Cotton 22, Mooney 17, Steindl 17) def Illawarra 70 (Jessup 15, Bairstow 13, Harvey 13, Froling 10)

NZ Breakers 81 (T. Webster 27, Delany 17, Bach 16, Iverson 10) def Brisbane 76 (OT) (Drmic 25, Sobey 23, Krebs 10)

Melbourne 80 (Goulding 25, Lual-Acuil 14, McCarron 12) def SE Melbourne 60 (Gliddon 13, Moore 12)

Perth 89 (Cotton 29, Travers 16, Mooney 13, Blanchfield 11, Norton 10) def Sydney 65 (Martin 18, Vasiljevic 13, Hunter 10)

Cairns 79 (Oliver 19, Machado 17, Djeric 13) def Adelaide 65 (Johnson 21, McVeigh 15, Dech 11)

Illawarra 96 (Harvey 28, Bairstow 12, Adel 11, Naar 11) def Brisbane 72 (Cadee 17, Froling 12, Krebs 11, Sobey 11)

[Gozu]

Mitch Creek has been reinstated by the NBL to play for SE Melbourne Phoenix this Thursday.

The decision to allow him to play is not an indication to his guilt or innocence in relation to the criminal investigation being undertaken by Victoria Police, which the NBL and South East Melbourne are treating extremely seriously.

Mitch Creek will relinquish his co-captaincy of the team and will not participate in any community activities with the Club until the matter has been determined by the courts.

The NBL and South East Melbourne will continue to review the matter and will take into consideration any decisions or directions made by the courts.

https://nbl.com.au/news/statement-by-th ... ne-phoenix

[Spargo]

Mitch Creek has been reinstated by the NBL to play for SE Melbourne Phoenix this Thursday.

The decision to allow him to play is not an indication to his guilt or innocence in relation to the criminal investigation being undertaken by Victoria Police, which the NBL and South East Melbourne are treating extremely seriously.

Mitch Creek will relinquish his co-captaincy of the team and will not participate in any community activities with the Club until the matter has been determined by the courts.

The NBL and South East Melbourne will continue to review the matter and will take into consideration any decisions or directions made by the courts.

https://nbl.com.au/news/statement-by-th ... ne-phoenix

Talk about having a bit each way!

[Gozu]

The Cairns Taipans have signed Hyrum Harris as a temporary injury replacement due to the absences of Majok Deng & Kouat Noi. The 6'6" Kiwi forward was a development player with the Illawarra Hawks last season and played for the NZ national team last year.

https://nbl.com.au/news/taipans-add-hyr ... eplacement

Also the NBL have fined Sydney Kings coach Adam Forde for his criticism of the refs after the Kings loss in Perth Thursday night.

https://nbl.com.au/news/statement-on-adam-forde

Tonight Josh Giddey will make his return for the 36ers in their game against the Hawks however Tony Crocker will miss the game due to a hip injury. The Hawks also have injury concerns with Tyler Harvey due to miss along with Cameron Bairstow but in some good news for them Daniel Grida will make his season debut since tearing his ACL in the off-season.

[Gozu]

Qtr time

Sixers 21
Hawks 17

[Gozu]

H/T

Sixers 46
Hawks 32