2014/15 NBL Season + Off-season news/Boomers

[Gozu]

A couple of good signings today with Melbourne United signing Chris Goulding returning from Spain on a 1 year deal and also the Sydney Kings have signed former Townsville Crocs PG Steven Markovic to a 1 year deal.

[Johno6]

If Kevin lisch goes to Hawks that's a decent pick up!

[Gozu]

If Kevin lisch goes to Hawks that's a decent pick up!

Very much so and with Bevo as coach and Ogilvy too something for long suffering Hawks fans to get excited about.

[Gozu]

The Sydney Kings have signed 6'8" Aussie PF Jeromie Hill to a 2 year deal who was playing at the University of Texas San Antonio and recently did a pre-draft workout with the San Antonio Spurs, the Illawarra Hawks have re-signed PF Oscar Forman and the 36ers have confirmed Anthony Petrie has re-signed to a 3 year deal.

[Gozu]

Great new for the Sydney Kings and the NBL in general with their announcement today they've re-signed star import and former NBA veteran Josh Childress to a 1 year deal.

The Sydney Kings are proud to announce that the club have retained star import Josh Childress for the 2015/16 National Basketball League Season.

Childress had an outstanding debut campaign for the purple and gold last season that saw him earn the club’s Most Valuable Player award and a selection in the All-NBL First Team.

The former NBA star led the NBL in points with 21.1 per game, in rebounds with 9.2 per game, and in blocks with 2.1 per game while also finishing the season ranked in the top five for assists with 4.2.

The 32-year-old American shunned interest from a number of clubs around the globe to continue his career as a Sydney King and is now looking forward to building long-term success at the club.

http://www.sydneykings.com/article/id/1 ... aca5aihjaw

[Gozu]

Confirmation today the Illawarra Hawks have signed former championship winning Perth import and 2012 NBL MVP Kevin Lisch to a 1 year deal who has been playing in France & Spain. Also the Hawks have re-signed veteran guard Tyson Demos to a 1 year deal.

http://www.hawks.com.au/article/id/1626 ... fizobpm7m5

Also the Cairns Taipans have re-signed star import Scottie Wilbekin to a 1 year deal. He went and played in Greece once the NBL season finished and is currently playing for the NBA's Orlando Magic in the Orlando Summer League. The Townsville Crocs have announced veteran centre Greg Vanderjagt has retired and will be remaining with the club as an assistant coach.

http://www.nbl.com.au/article/id/gn2xr8 ... hpv6qje60r

[RustyCage]

When did they become the Illawarra Hawks again?

[heater31]

When did they become the Illawarra Hawks again?

Couple of weeks ago....

[Gozu]

The Cairns Taipans have signed former Olympian & Melb Utd forward Mark Worthington to a 2 year deal.

http://www.nbl.com.au/article/id/1u4cnt ... z59s4a7w1k

Confirmation the 36ers have signed both former Cairns Taipan guard Nathan Sobey to a 3 year deal and young 6'11" centre Matt Hodgson to a 2 year deal. Hodgson played NCAA college ball at St Mary's and prior to that Southern Utah University.

http://www.nbl.com.au/article/id/11ogq0 ... 76lhjn0iw0

Also Melb Utd have re-signed 6'10" back up centre Chris Patton the older brother of AFL young gun Jonathon Patton and unfortunately for the Boomers Aron Baynes has pulled out of the Boomers series against NZ due to off-season ankle surgery after signing his 3 year deal with the Detroit Pistons.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/us-sports/n ... 7431701475

[Brodlach]

How many clubs has Worthington played for??? Might be easier to say those he hasn played for

[Gozu]

How many clubs has Worthington played for??? Might be easier to say those he hasn played for

lol Hasn't played for the 36ers...yet

Kings
Dragons
Tigers
Blaze
Tigers/United

[Gozu]

The 36ers today confirmed they've re-signed Brendan Teys to a 3 year deal and the Illawarra Hawks have re-signed centre Larry Davidson to a 1 year deal.

Also Melbourne United have announced they've signed 6'9" PF Majok Majok. He was born in Sudan his family moved to Perth when he was a kid played high school & college basketball in the US and just played his first pro season in Slovenia. He was presented with his NBL singlet in front of the Sudanese community in Melbourne with Sudanese born NBA star Luol Deng in attendance.

http://www.melbourneutd.com.au/article/ ... vaxs17cn57

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[Gozu]

The NBL have announced today that the Blitz pre-season tournament will be held in Townsville from the 24-27 September.

http://www.nbl.com.au/article/id/nth0d7 ... umd4wk89cs

[Gozu]

The Illawarra Hawks have re-signed forward Tim Coenraad to a 1 year deal and also the Perth Wildcats have lost assistant coach Adam Tatalovich who has joined the Sacramento Kings coaching staff in the NBA.

[Gozu]

Basketball Australia have announced the 12 man Boomers team for their European tour starting later this month against Lithuania (2 games), Slovenia (2 games) and then back home for the 2 game series against New Zealand. Unfortunately Patty Mills will be joining Aron Baynes & Joe Ingles on the sidelines.

David Andersen
Cameron Bairstow
Andrew Bogut
Ryan Broekhoff
Matthew Dellavedova
Dante Exum
Adam Gibson
Chris Goulding
Nate Jawai
Damian Martin
Brock Motum
Brad Newley

Also in NBL news the Townsville Crocs have announced they've re-signed import and league MVP Brian Conklin to a 1 year deal and the Crocs have also signed young Aussie PF Nick Kay to a 2 year deal. He has been playing college ball at Metro State in Denver. Plus the Illawarra Hawks have announced they've signed former Sydney Kings guard Kevin White to a 1 year deal.

[Gozu]

Great news for the Boomers/Opals with Channel 9 confirming it will be televising their games in Melbourne at Rod Laver Arena against NZ on Sat 15th August broadcast starts at 6:30pm.

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2015/07/nin ... ships.html

Coverage will be hosted by the SANFL's own John Casey

[Gozu]

The Townsville Crocs have confirmed they've signed former 36ers centre Luke Schenscher to a 3 year deal. Good luck to him and Townsville was where he played his best before leaving them to come back to the 36ers in 2012.

[Gozu]

The Cairns Taipans are in the news, first the good news 2014 NBL coach of the year former Hawks coach Gordie McLeod has signed on to be an assistant coach under Aaron Fearne but the bad news is due to his good play in the NBA Summer League import Scottie Wilbekin has been signed by the Philadelphia 76ers so won't be returning to the Taipans next season after all.

[Gozu]

Bit of a coup for the Sydney Kings they've just signed Marcus Thornton as their other import. The 6'4" guard was just drafted by the Boston Celtics with the 45th pick in the draft so the Celtics are essentially loaning him out to the Kings. He played his college ball at College of William & Mary.

http://www.nbl.com.au/article/id/1bm0oz ... uom7n7mzvb

[Gozu]

The Perth Wildcats have announced the signing of their second import Casey Prather a 6'6" forward who after finishing his time at the University of Florida (teammate of Scottie Wilbekin's), played in the D-League last season and just played for the D-League Select team in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.

http://www.wildcats.com.au/article/id/h ... w6143kqfdk