2018/19 NBL Season + Off-season News

[Jim05]

Joakim Noah potentially to the NZ Breakers [emoji15]

[Brodlach]

Simmons not playing for Australia at World Cup

Anyone else get the feeling that he will end up on Team USA at some stage?

[Brodlach]

Joakim Noah potentially to the NZ Breakers [emoji15]

Just read that, would be huge

[Gozu]

Simmons not playing for Australia at World Cup

Anyone else get the feeling that he will end up on Team USA at some stage?

He can't because he's already played for the Boomers in a NZ series when he was in high school.

[Brodlach]

Simmons not playing for Australia at World Cup

Anyone else get the feeling that he will end up on Team USA at some stage?

He can't because he's already played for the Boomers in a NZ series when he was in high school.

Three year clause isn’t there?

[Gozu]

I've never heard of a three year clause? I've always understood it that once you play senior basketball for a country you can't ever switch to another country unless you go through a long and arduous appeals process with FIBA that can take years.

I dare say that was the reason BA played him back in 2013 because he wasn't good enough then to justify a spot on the team they were locking him in for the future.

[Brodlach]

I thought if a player was a duel citizen that if they played for one country and then decided to play for the other country that if there was a three year gap it was possible

[Gozu]

The Illawarra Hawks have announced they've re-signed veteran big man David Andersen for the season. Andersen finished the season playing in France and will reunite with his Houston Rockets teammate Aaron Brooks at the Hawks.

http://www.nbl.com.au/news/article/davi ... -the-hawks

Also the Perth Wildcats have upgraded development player Wani Swaka Lo Buluk to the full roster signing him to a 3 year deal. The 6'5" swingman made his NBL debut last season as a 17 yo and is currently playing in the WA state league.

http://www.nbl.com.au/news/article/wild ... a-lo-buluk

[Gozu]

The South-East Melbourne Phoenix have signed import John Roberson a 5'11" PG who played in Russia last season.

http://www.nbl.com.au/news/article/phoe ... eague-star

Also the 36ers will be playing two pre-season games against the Philippines national team as part of their World Cup preparations. Both games will be played in the Philippines on August 23 and 25.

https://www.espn.com/basketball/gilas/s ... aide-36ers

[DOC]

Simmons not playing for Australia at World Cup

Anyone else get the feeling that he will end up on Team USA at some stage?

Playing against the USA in the two exhibition games but will not suit up for the World Cup.

[Gozu]

In a big coup for the team Melbourne United have announced they've lured back three-time NBL championship winning import Casey Prather on a 2 year deal. After winning the title with United in 2018 Prather signed to play in Russia last season but was released before playing a game due to injury and spent the whole season on the sidelines.

http://www.nbl.com.au/news/article/unit ... ey-prather

[Gozu]

The schedule for the 2019-20 NBL season has been released with the season starting on October 3 with a Melbourne derby between United and the Phoenix. Even with the addition of the Phoenix all teams will still play 28 games with each team playing another team four times and the other four teams three times.

Highlights for the 36ers are the first home game at Adelaide Entertainment Centre against Brisbane on Saturday October 19 and a game on New Year's Day against Perth at the Entertainment Centre too.

http://www.nbl.com.au/news/article/nbl2 ... e-released

[Gozu]

The Sydney Kings have announced the signing of their second import Jae'Sean Tate a 6'4" SF who played last season in Belgium and just played for the Denver Nuggets in the NBA Summer League.

http://nbl.com.au/news/article/kings-add-jaesean-tate

The Kings have also signed Aussie basketball legend & Boomers assistant coach Luc Longley in a special advisory role to the team and signed three assistant coaches Adam Forde who won four championships as an assistant coach at Perth, James Duncan and former King Aleks Maric under new head coach Will Weaver.

http://nbl.com.au/news/article/luc-long ... -off-court

[Gozu]

The Cairns Taipans have announced the signing of their first import Cameron Oliver a 6'8" PF who played in the G-League last season.

http://nbl.com.au/news/article/taipans- ... rst-import

New NZ Breakers Next Stars signing RJ Hampton has just signed a 5 year multi-million dollar shoe deal with Li-Ning.

http://nbl.com.au/news/article/breakers ... th-li-ning

Also NBL journeyman Mitch Young has announced his retirement after playing with Cairns last season and Aussie centre Isaac Humphries has signed a non-guaranteed training camp contract with the Orlando Magic.

The Brisbane Bullets have just announced the signing of their second import E.J. Singler a 6'6" SF who played in Greece last season and just finished playing for Hawkes Bay in the NZ league.

http://nbl.com.au/news/article/e-j-sing ... rs-bullets

[PatowalongaPirate]

Simmons not playing for Australia at World Cup

Anyone else get the feeling that he will end up on Team USA at some stage?

Playing against the USA in the two exhibition games but will not suit up for the World Cup.

Not anymore. At this rate he'll withdraw from the Olympics too.

[Brodlach]

I smell a rat

[Gozu]

I feel a bit for the people who bought tickets to those two big games against Team USA thinking they were going to see a star studded USA team which with all the withdrawals now looks like it's worst team with NBA players since 1992 and thinking they would see Ben Simmons playing for us.

When Simmons decided to skip the World Cup but made himself available to play in the four warm up games here against the USA & Canada I was actually hoping either BA would tell him no or he would reconsider and skip the lot. It would've hurt our preparations and structures too much to have him play in those games and then needing to rejig on the fly at the WC.

It's a shame for the ticket buyers because he's supposedly back in Melbourne now but better for our chances at the WC he doesn't play.

[Gozu]

South-East Melbourne Phoenix have confirmed Mitch Creek will be returning to the NBL to play for them this season after playing last season in the US in the NBA & G-League.

http://nbl.com.au/news/article/mitch-cr ... -for-nbl20

Basketball Australia have added Jason Cadee to the Boomers World Cup squad to replace Ben Simmons.

http://nbl.com.au/news/article/jason-ca ... -cup-squad

Cadee like Simmons didn't score any points in last year's NBL playoffs

[Brodlach]

NBL does a telecast deal with SBS and ESPN where ALL games can be viewed for free either on TV or SBS on Demand

[Gozu]

Looks like a really good TV deal for the NBL plus all the Boomers WC warm-up games will be on SBS Viceland HD too.

SBS VICELAND will broadcast 67 games live, free and in HD. Games will be broadcast at various times with most airing at 5.30pm on Saturday and at 3pm and 5pm on Sunday AEDT

ESPN will broadcast 59 games including all games after 7.30pm AEDT

All 126 games will be live and free to stream via SBS on Demand

All SBS VICELAND and ESPN games will be broadcast in HD

All finals will be simulcast on SBS VICELAND and ESPN

All four international games featuring the Boomers and the USA v Canada game next month will be available free on SBS VICELAND and all seven games on SBS On Demand

http://nbl.com.au/news/article/nbl20-br ... d-and-espn

Plus in other news the Brisbane Bullets have announced they've re-signed import Lamar Patterson who is currently playing in China during the off-season.

http://nbl.com.au/news/article/lamar-pa ... th-bullets

A big day for the NZ Breakers have signed their first import in Scotty Hopson a 6'7" swingman who has played briefly in the NBA with Cleveland & Dallas and played last season in the G-League & Israel. The Breakers have also elevated development player Tom Vodanovich to the full roster who just played in the NZ league.

The NZ Breakers have also announced they've sacked coach Kevin Braswell and signed Israeli Dan Shamir as his replacement in the new executive position of Director of Basketball. Shamir has 18 years experience as both a head coach & assistant coach in Israel & Russia in 2018 he won the COTY award in Israel including winning three Israeli Cup's there and was an assistant coach on two Euroleague championship teams and also a VTB United League championship team.

http://nbl.com.au/news/article/breakers ... -structure