Anonymous
Years ago
Boti calls for Winter Superleague
HOW can the NBL get marquee names such as Andrew Bogut, Patrick Mills, Joe Ingles, Brad Newley, Nate Jawai and others playing in its competition? With a biennial Winter Superleague, that's how.
Despite the constraints of inherited BA contracts and deals, the NBL has shown it is trying to look forward and to be imaginative so a biennial NBL Winter Superleague might be something worthy of discussion.
Picture this. Every odd year - that is, non-World Championship or Olympic year – the NBL runs a six-team, four-week Winter Superleague.
The teams are West Australia (Perth Wildcats), South Australia (Adelaide 36ers), Victoria (Melbourne Tigers + a second Melbourne-based club in time), New South Wales (Sydney Kings and Wollongong Hawks), New Zealand (NZ Breakers) and Queensland (Cairns Taipans, Townsville Crocs + Brisbane Bullets in time).
Invite our overseas superstars, players such as Bogut, Mills, Ingles, Newley, Jawai, Aron Baynes, Matthew Dellavedova, Aleks Maric, Daniel Kickert, Anatoly Bose, David Barlow and our best current guys in college to compete and run it from late July to early August.
Obviously any of the men in Div.1 NCAA programs could not be paid and there could/would/might be insurance issues with some of our foreign-based pros.
And some might simply not be interested.
http://www.botinagy.com/blog/nbl-winter-superleague-why-not/