Wow games in Melbourne, I feel like that's been a familiar trend over the last few years!

Not surprised Qatar is hosting the 2027 World Cup. Surprised Australia never hosted a FIBA World Cup before.

I suspect with 2023 and 2027 in Asia, we will see 2031 and 2035 in US/Canada and Europe

This World Cup used 5 arenas -

We have:

Qudos Bank Arena (Sydney) - 18,000 bball capacity
Rod Laver Arena (Melbourne) - 15,400
RAC Arena (Perth) - 14,800
Albion Park Paceway (Brisbane - New Olympic Venue) - 12,000 or Brisbane Entertainment Centre - 10,023
Adelaide Entertainment Centre (Adelaide) - 10,000

And then there's also John Cain Arena (Melbourne) - 10,500

It's a no brainer but unfortunately the strange creatures at BA have missed the boat, as they always do, since there were hardly any bids for the 2023 edition and one to host 2027 and they sat on their hands. Now with three cups in a row hosted by Asia forget about it.

KET, I suspect that sports-washing money from Saudi Arabia and that region will disrupt planned or fair distribution of world events around the world regions

Combining with NZ and using Spark Arena would give it greater weight wouldn't it? However the Kiwis didn't really get behind the FIFA world cup recently.

Never forget Australia were favourites to host and ultimately lost the 2022 FIFA World Cup bid due to Qatar. At least Football Australia tried, though.

In basketball's case BA didn't bother to take advantage of a perfect opportunity while there was low interest re: 2023/2027.

So currently we are in a situation where the World Cup is being hosted next door in Indonesia who have no basketball history and as part of a weird assortment of nations. Let that sink in.

Should really have went for 2027, although I guess that could've clashed with the Rugby World Cup that we're hosting that year (and this year would've clashed with the FIFA Women's World Cup). 2031 feels too close to the Olympics in Brisbane.

Are we saying that we're not capable of hosting two big events in the same year? There would be very little overlap of venues.

Part the reason they lost fifa World Cup is afl would not release the stadiums and didn't want to stop their competition. They did everything to stop it they could.

AFL seems to throw its weight around a lot. Also having more than one big event in one year is only a problem if one sport gets mass media exposure and the other doesn't because of it. We could also get burnt out by too many big events in one year here which can impact interest, sales etc...

Are we saying that we're not capable of hosting two big events in the same year? There would be very little overlap of venues.

Part the reason they lost fifa World Cup is afl would not release the stadiums and didn't want to stop their competition. They did everything to stop it they could.

Australia never stood a chance against the corruption let's be honest

Yes it was corruption and Qatar took that to a new level.

I think the main reason Australia misses out on the FIFA World Cup is due to tv ratings. Prime time here is 3am for the majority of the Soccer world and tv rights wins over everything

Its great theyre trying to get the basketball world cup but not sure it happens. I would say we have a pretty lethargic interest in basketball. we have had a top 4 basketball team for the past decade and even then our public barely cared. I am not sure a world cup here would bring so much interest unless a Dream Team type USA played. Sad but thats how I see it.

I think the public cares more now than it ever did before. It's the media that haven't caught on yet.

The Boomers played to over 10,000 fans for their 3 warm up games in Melbourne in the middle of the Matildas mania. I think the interst is there as long as our team is a high profile one with some star power.

Also, Australia has a large NBA following, so if there's plenty of NBA players around, the interest will be there. We have the arenas too. What we don't have is a media that genuinely wants to get behind the sport.

As we have just seen NBA players might help you at the gate, doesn't always translate to in court success.

I think you'll find that the media is generally run by people heavily influenced by AFL or NRL or cricket, whether it was as part of their background or financially. Those codes would strongly influence what the media puts out, either directly through $$ or indirectly through controlling access to events, news, etc.

As netball has a similar struggle, perhaps it’s because bb and netball aren’t seen as 'real sports’, or simply because both don’t pay enough to the media to get the coverage. Dunno, but I’d like to know what BA pays for coverage.

Having said that, the Matildas received massive coverage from The Age, and it was great and well-deserved!!

Are there enough journos capable of covering bb well? Who can convey the excitement of close games? Who can sell the achievements of the players?

https://www.hoops.com.au/forum/46920-basis-for-mainstream-media-coverage-28sports29/