When did it get released?

This morning.

Boti has a story about it too.

Basketball Australia's announcements of the future of its elite competitions has been further delayed due to a couple of Melbourne-based issues, one of which affects Adelaide.

That is whether the Melbourne Tigers' majority shareholder Seamus McPeake will go forward with his plans to purchase the Distinctive Homes Dome - and with it, the 36ers club - from Eddy Groves and Mal Hemmerling.

Currently McPeake and BA are at odds over plans for the Tigers' home court "The Cage" - the State Netball Hockey Centre - to be shared by Melbourne's arch enemy and crosstown rival South.

"Blockbuster" fixtures would be at the Dragons' former home at Hisense Arena.

No-one from BA would go on the record yesterday in the wake of the weekend's Sydney summit which brought together the game's stakeholders for the first time.

I think that issue of one owner would be pretty easily waved if the $1mill bank guarantee and a successful past and future business plan was presented ie Dragons, Tigers.

As for Seamus owning the Tigers & Sixers, maybe they came to the relisation that if they didn't let him he would just buy it in his sons name, too many easy ways around it.

So what exactly has been achieved with the newNBL?

Same teams sans Sydney.

No team more financially secure than before. Wollongong has a lot of promises to pay money , how much of that will convert in the crunch?

The games reduced to 40 minutes. Excellent, less action and i bet for the slightly inflated ticket price because it is new and exciting.

The keyway to change to FIBA style

Dragons to potentially save some money by moving into the Cage.

BA getting back in touch with its grass roots ( i have a question at this point what the hell has been going on then for the past 10 years? NBL and WNBL players regularly visit schools and clubs, players run skills camps, how more in touch do they need to be without breaking the law?)

No ground breaking promotion by BA that needs to happen and quick.

NBL to stay in Summer despite most people wanting it back to winter when it was at its best. Remember people it is a winter sport hence the roof.

A new logo that lacks any real imagination or flare. Honestly without it having the word basketball attached to it would you know that it is promoting basketball?

Larry Sengstock in Derwin out, apparently Derwin was in this job for around 10 years, really, who had heard of him before, where was he when it was all going down hill? Good luck to you Larry, we are all hoping you fix it starting with the removing of the large dead weight on the board.

Player contracts out the door as teams have to admit they cant honour their existng contracts and stay below the cap. Will this bring any sanctions for those teams caught with their pants down here going forward?

So in short what the hell has changed. Larry Sengstock and that is all?

If that is it what has taken so long to work out? How many meetings have occurred for this massive change?

I hope i do eat humble pie and i will be happy to do so as that will mean that basketball is back.

I've been wondering the same thing.

There was a bold vision, but it's been scaled back in the wrong ways from what I can tell at this point.

We'll have the same teams, nothing too wrong with that, but we'll still have flakey teams on the edge of trouble. Having barely-in Cairns and Wollongong teams aren't going to sure up the league against the problems it's had recently.

Leaving them in and coming up short in Sydney and Brisbane means a Fox deal is unlikely to change too much and might impact any hope with OneHD?

I was hoping we'd have a new emphasis on branding and spending money on the right promotions but while the BA logo rebrand is adequate, that front page video they put up hardly instils confidence that they're working with the right brains and suppliers at all. Do you reckon more than a bare minimum of soccer fans were embarrassed when the A-League launched with the Scribe ads?

"Hey kid, do you want to do bicycle and scissor kicks, smacking a ball around the streets, or do you want to shoot free throws on your own in an empty gym?"

"Do I get to do an awkward, scripted fist pump at the end?"

And news today of the ongoing issue whereby Seamus won't give the Dragons access to the Tigers venue suggests that the league itself will still be at the mercy of the stronger owners, as it has been in the past.

Hoping to be proven wrong and will keep following the league if it's the same as in recent times, but my expectations of what will come from all of this off-season talk are declining.