2019-20 NBL Season + Off-season news

[Brodlach]

Former NBA guard Donald Sloan has agreed to a deal with the Adelaide 36ers to complete their roster for the 2020-21 NBL season, sources have told ESPN.

Sloan, 32, is coming off a stint with Baskets Bonn in the Basketball Bundesliga, and will be the only import on Conner Henry's largely local roster.

Sloan spent five seasons in the NBA, highlighted by a two-year stretch with the Indiana Pacers; the 6'3 guard averaging 7.4 points 2.7 rebounds, and 3.4 assists per game over the 2014-15 NBA season.

Undrafted in 2010, the native of Louisiana has played across the world, suiting up in the NBA, NBA G-League, Chinese Basketball Association, and, most recently, the Bundesliga in Germany.

Sloan only played three games in Germany, due to the season being posted because of COVID-19, averaging 11.7 points a contest. The season prior, he posted 25.5 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 5.0 assists a game for the Jiangsu Dragons in the CBA.

Sloan is expected to start at the point for the 36ers, and add a veteran presence to a relatively young team. He'll join Isaac Humphries, Josh Giddey, Sunday Dech, and Keanu Pinder as the new additions on Henry's roster.

With the NBL's new 10-man roster limit in effect - a Next Stars player can act as an 11th rostered athlete - the 36ers' roster is now complete: Sloan, Humphries, Daniel Johnson, Giddey, Dech, Pinder, Jack McVeigh, Brendan Teys, Daniel Dillon, Obi Kyei, and Alex Mudronja.

The 36ers are the first NBL team to fill all of its roster spots, with their free agency efforts led by Jeff Van Groningen, the General Manager of Basketball; as well as owner, Grant Kelley.

[Gozu]

Sounds like a good signing former NBA vet. The Sixers are keeping an import spot up their sleeve to possibly sign later in the season and still a lot of talk that Obi Kyei wants to be released from his contract to sign with a NSW based NBL team.

[Brodlach]

I’d let Obie walk

[Gozu]

The Perth Wildcats have announced the signing of their second import John Mooney to a 1 year deal. The 6'9" PF is straight out of college at Notre Dame.

https://nbl.com.au/news/wildcats-sign-i ... ohn-mooney

The Hawks have also announced the signing of their second import Justin Simon to a 1 year deal. The 6'5" SG played in the G-League last season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/hawks-sign-seco ... stin-simon

The Cairns Taipans have signed former NZ Breakers swingman Jordan Ngatai to a 2 year deal. He was runner up for league MVP in the NZ league during the offseason and helped lead Otago to the championship.

https://nbl.com.au/news/taipans-sign-nz ... dan-ngatai

Melbourne United have announced they've re-signed guard Sam McDaniel to a 1 year deal.

https://nbl.com.au/news/melbourne-re-sign-sam-mcdaniel

Finally the NBL have announced the CEO of the new Tasmanian team that will be entering the NBL in the 2021-22 season in Simon Brookhouse who has previously been President of the Hobart Chargers and Chairman of the SEABL league.

https://nbl.com.au/news/simon-brookhous ... w-nbl-team

[Gozu]

Unfortunately for SEM Phoenix new signing Kiwi big Yanni Wetzell has exercised his European out clause in his contract and has been released.

https://nbl.com.au/news/yanni-wetzell-e ... ropean-out

[Gozu]

The 36ers have announced the signing of lead assistant coach Jamie Pearlman on a 2 year deal. He was formerly a long-time assistant under Aaron Fearne at the Cairns Taipans and has spent the past two seasons as the head coach of the Westports Malaysia Dragons in the ASEAN league. As a player he also played 243 games in the NBL.

https://nbl.com.au/news/jamie-pearlman- ... hing-staff

Unfortunately for Kevin Brooks probably means his time as a coach at the club has come to an end after the seven seasons under Joey Wright and one season under Phil Smyth too.

[Gozu]

It's official now the 36ers have signed import Donald Sloan to a 1 year deal. The 6'3" guard played five years in the NBA with Atlanta, New Orleans, Cleveland, Indiana & Brooklyn and most recently played in Germany.

https://nbl.com.au/news/adelaide-36ers- ... nald-sloan

Also Melbourne United have announced they've released import Casey Prather.

https://nbl.com.au/news/prather-melbour ... al-release

[Gozu]

The Sydney Kings have announced that import Casper Ware has opted back in to his contract for this season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/casper-ware-recommits-to-kings

[Gozu]

The Hawks have announced the signing of Next Star Justinian Jessup for this season. The 6'7" American SG just finished playing his college ball at Boise State.

https://nbl.com.au/news/nba-prospect-ju ... -next-star

[Gozu]

The Sydney Kings have announced they've re-signed veteran big Daniel Kickert to a 1 year deal.

https://nbl.com.au/news/daniel-kickert- ... ith-sydney

Also the Cairns Taipans have re-signed forward George Blagojevic to a 2 year deal.

https://nbl.com.au/news/snakes-bring-back-blagojevic

[Gozu]

The Hawks have completed their roster re-signing AJ Ogilvy to a 1 year deal as an injury replacement for Daniel Grida who is expected to be out for the season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/hawks-sign-aj-o ... eplacement

[Gozu]

36ers owner Grant Kelley has sold a 19% stake in the team to a consortium led by 36ers GM Jeff Van Groningen.

Adelaide 36ers Chairman and Owner Grant Kelley has announced the sale of a 19% equity interest in the Club to a consortium of investors led by current Sixers General Manager of Basketball, Jeff Van Groningen.

The capital was sourced to provide for future expansion of the Club, and is based on an initial valuation for the Club of $7.2 million.

The group’s most significant investor is Canadian sports marketing businessman Jacob Burke, while former prominent Nashville music executive, Dale Bray, now based on the Gold Coast, is also part of the group. Additional investors from Spain, New Zealand, the United States and Australia bring added sports and business experience to the group.

https://nbl.com.au/news/adelaide-36ers- ... investment

[Gozu]

According to ESPN's Olgun Uluc the NZ Breakers have signed Colton Iverson as their second import for this season. The 7'0" centre was drafted by the Boston Celtics in 2014 but has yet to play in the NBA and played for a Russian team in the EuroLeague and VTB United League last season.

https://www.espn.com.au/nbl/story/_/id/ ... on-iverson

Uluc also mentions in the article that it's becoming increasingly likely the start of the NBL season will be pushed back further likely to late-January or early-February.

[Brodlach]

Season has been pushed back to start January 2021

[Gozu]

Season has been pushed back to start January 2021

Good to hear the NBL intends for the full season to still go ahead and willing to play in one or more hubs to achieve that.

https://nbl.com.au/news/hungry-jack-s-n ... early-2021

[Brodlach]

The worst kept secret announced today that Obi Kyei has departed the 36ers

[Gozu]

The name of the new Tasmanian team has been announced Tasmania JackJumpers who enter the NBL in the 2021-22 season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/tasmania-jackju ... to-the-nbl

Also the Sydney Kings have announced Brazilian Next Star Didi Louzada will be coming back this season. He was drafted by the New Orleans Pelicans in 2019.

https://nbl.com.au/news/didi-louzada-re ... -to-sydney

[Spargo]

An ant. Their nickname is an ant. Tasmania finally return to the NBL after 24 years and this is the best they could come up with?

[Gozu]

An ant. Their nickname is an ant. Tasmania finally return to the NBL after 24 years and this is the best they could come up with?

Not a great name I would've liked to have seen Devils used again but I read that the AFL have supposedly trademarked it for a future Tassie team.

[brod]

An ant. Their nickname is an ant. Tasmania finally return to the NBL after 24 years and this is the best they could come up with?

Not a great name I would've liked to have seen Devils used again but I read that the AFL have supposedly trademarked it for a future Tassie team.

It beat out the Trident as the final two possible names...the two others on the short list were Pride and Mountaineers...fair to say none of the four are leaping out to me...