No.

Is there a guarantee Sydney, Brisbane will get something together? They've had a year as it is and didn't get close to making a compliant bid.

Wait a year and you probably lose the likes Hawks & Cairns - two new teams starting completely fresh NOW.

Plus, how many other teams can afford a year of nothing?

Soccer had the Socceroos World Cup Qualifiers to keep local fans interested.

Then the World Cup itself was a MASSIVE launching pad for the A-League.

Basketball World Champs pale in comparison, despite the superstars that compete.

It'd take more than Boomers beating USA to get any hype from Australia's football dominated media ethos.

looks like they won't have a choice

Well I just think that media interest is going to be next to nothing anyway, seeing as major markets like Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and (to an extent) Melbourne are going to be missing teams anyway. It just seems like a hastily thrown together mish-mash IMO.

It'd be better to get teams organised everywhere, or at least give them time to get organised everywhere. They haven't had a whole year to do this. The previous season ended around a month ago I thought, and while Sydney and so on knew their fate before then, it's still not enough time to organise a viable franchise for a national league.

I can see what will happen - markets that don't have a team in the league from the word go will probably just forget about having a basketball team at a national level, and never bother to get a franchise together.

If they just hold their horses, wait, and have a complete re-boot next year with strong, stable teams in all major markets, it'll be much more of a success that this thrown-together thing they're going ahead with, which only has two teams in major capital cities, and the rest in lesser markets. I didn't think Australian basketball could possibly make itself look more second-rate and irrelevant than it had six months ago, but this new league will just sink things to a new low IMO if it goes ahead as is.

Not a bad question, but the big question is can we afford not to have a 2009/10 season?

Reckon "Larry and the lounge lizards" in NBL HQ need the no-doze to get 'em through some all nighters!

If they can get teams in all major capital cities on board, financially viable, with some decent marketing (aka any marketing at all) behind them, and a league based around Australian talent (only one import per team), then I think not having a 2009/10 season is a worthwhile sacrifice to make for the benefit of the future of the game around the country.

I totally agree, i suggest sitting out a year, then as conditions that all teams have only 1 import as this will promote/develope australian talent.

1 import = 1 less attraction....worst idea possible

The answer to this question was always going to be yes, there was never enough time to get everything sorted and it was always going to be a case of being too rushed.
That was even before the Sixers and Dragons issue, and nothing has changed since then, except for the fact that delaying is overwhelmingly a necessary evil.
nobody will ever take this sport seriously again if the first season from when reform is announced, we desperately for our own selfishness, have a need to force it through before it's decent.
Doing that then trying to justify it is just laughable.

suppose 36ers and Tigers (just on the news) aren't in, does the league have a choice to not wait? In fact BA have failed miserably to have a team in state of each capital city.

it makes sense to cancel the upcoming season, get the model into place for a new launch.

It has to be right the first time with teams in all major capital cities.

We need to have a success similar to the A League and redevelopment of soccer.

By not having teams from syd or melbourne, this is not possible.

With the Tigers now out as well, SURELY they have to wait. Any national league would be a total joke if it's not including Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane or Adelaide.

There's no way they can sustain a league and expect it to be taken seriously with Perth, Cairns, Woolongong, Gold Coast, and who else?

I don't want a rebel league to start either, with the same old cowboys involved (Cowan etc.). I want a proper league that doesn't repeat the problems of the past.

One import only in the standard tier, two imports in the elite tier?

What about have the choice of having one import - outside of the salary cap or 2 within the salary cap.