How can a local council provide $500,000 when the state government does bugger all????

Obviously BASA needs a large amount of help and the powers on North Terrace aren't willing to help out a sport in crisis.

Politicians.......enuff said.

I think the Unley Council have extended the allowed time to repay an old loan.

Basketball as a sport cannot be bankrupt, but BASA, as an incorporated body can. They are just like any other business, subject to the Corporations Act. If they can't pay the bills, or have too many unfunded liabilities, they can be seen as insolvent. It is an offence to trade whilst insolvent.

I don't think BASA are there just yet, but that's a guess. I think the government would bail them out.

If BASA did go bankrupt, another body could be formed to administer basketball in SA. We could get Bob Hunnerup to run it.

How about all the clubs forming another association and distance themselves from that BASA monster. I have been involved in junior bball as a parent for number of years and it literally bled me dry. Junior bball has become elitist out of reach for many families. It appears that BASA only takes and nothing is coming back. Check this out
Yearly subscriptions $600, games entry fee $400 a year, reserve games $200, ABL (spectator $120). Add all additional expenses - uniform/boots $300 a year. Melbourne Classic plus other tournaments $1000 a year, pleasure of representing the state $1500, petrol $500, physio bills $300, tape/ankle braces $200 plus all the rest that goes with it. All together $5120. Please give me a break.

Bobby would have to quit coaching of course, to avoid a conflict of interest.

Realist, while your at it why dont you add wear and tear on your car i dunno another 500, food for sustenance to compete lets say 5000 per year, home gym to train another 1000.

but if you really want a big pay out, why not try pain and suffering for all the stress paying that money out and driving to venues had on yourself. That's where the real money lies.

I'll second you guys there, im a 17yr old trying to work three jobs that get taxed a flippin heap major job is a trainees wage... livin independently cause im a country guy and then trying to find the cash and time to play ball. its killin me.lol

Well said realist, i am a parent of a player that has trodden this road as well, and don't forget the SASI trip to USA at $6,000+ by the end of it! BASA needs to wake up and look at the cost of junior basketball. there are kids dropping out of basketball left right and centre because parents just get sick of digging deeper and deeper, and the insurance thing hasnt helped either! i am trying to convince my younger child to drop out of basketball and play something else... just cant see myself going through this all again. i'd like to work to have a holiday, not fund BASA!

realist- Domestic competiition.

Who in their right mind would loan BASA $500k? I dont blame the government for not doing it, & im very suprised about the Unley council lending more $$$.

I wouldnt worry about kids wandering the streets being involved in petty crime anonymous, I would be more concerned about continually losing kids to other sports.