SEABL Ian an independent, professional league. It should be able to do whatever is members decide.

I'd say it’s a good way too supplement their NBL income (which is good) and lifts seabl standard (also good)

You can't restrict a guy earning $60k in the NBL from earning an extra $20k in the off season. If not SEABL it would be overseas anyway. Plus it raises the standard of our second tier comp which is good.

The restricted player rules essentially deal with this issue Matt. As i understand the Rangers will not have an import but two NBL guys.

On his current contract which he would have signed when he was about 10th man yes $60k would be it, maybe his next contract may top $100k

Foreign imports different eg Garret Jackson types, as they are not locals and taking up an import spot..

NBL players are "Resstricted Players" ... same as imports. They take the same roster spot as an import. Each team allowed 2 Restricted players. Import OR local.

Drmic is earning more than $100K @Adelaide. Agent must be good.

With "restricted players" i get that but with the NBL what is considered a restricted local NBL player? Is it one who has a full time contract, or does NBL restricted players also include the developmental contracts in the NBL eg the guys who don't have full time NBL contracts but train with there NBL team and might make the match day squad if an injury happens? Is the NBL development contract boys a restricted player to?

And some say SEABL is an independeant leage, well yes BA own it not LK, but is that the point? Do we now have to leagues effectively competing with each other or servicing similar roles eg like the old days in aussies rules with the SANFL/VFL? The SEABL should absolutely promote 2nd-tier devleopment basketball and I reckon it should move to 1 restrcited player per squad.
Also as said to reflect this 2nd tier model it should try and form afiflaite deals with NBL clubs "ala G-league style" or SANFL in the AFL, running along in the same calander season as the NBL not in a seperate season.. eg playing as curtain raiser matches to the NBL.

The SANFL don't play in a seperate calander season to the AFL nor do any other big aussie sports in OZ, just basketball with the SEABL..
The old CBA in the 90's would play same season as the NBL and would often play at NBL arenas as the curtain raiser to NBL matches.. Sam Mckinnon got his start in the CBA when like 16 or 17..

The NBL ceo said last year, he wanted the NBL to have more connection with the SEABL and he said the NBL cared about the SEABL.. Maybe the NBL should by the SEABL from BA and invest in it...

Anonymous, is that 12 minutes for the whole season or12 minutes per NBL game per season?

Okay, 3 restricted players okay.. But still i reckon it should align with NBL season like the old CBA in the 90's, i used to go to curtain raisers for CBA games before the NBL game would start.. I still find it weird that aussie NBL guys are playing in an off season league in Australia, imagine if aussie rules had a summer league and you'd play AFL all winter then play in like the northern territory aussie rules league in the summer or something like that, or if tasmania played it's aussie rules in summer and you played in Tassie league in summer and AFL in winter.. It just seems strange, almost as if SEABL is like a 2nd professional basketball competition in Australia. Should we be ashamed of that? yes we should, it shouldn't be in a different calendar the NBL should be the no 1 be all and end all and take most of the credit and not be undermined with any quirky behavior or strange calendar situations where an NBl standard player of Anthony Drimic's level is one weekend suited up in the nBL grand final and plays good minutes then next week is playing in the SEABL, that is quirky and different to mainstream OZ sport and annoying this difference that basketball currently is doing compared to the rest of big mainstream OZ sports where all 2nd tier comps are in same calendar season. Basketball in australia should not be different it should be the same here. It annoys me and feels weird and absurd to be fair this Anthony Drimic situation...

I wonder if Matt is aware that reserve players from the AFL, Low game AFL players, VFL, SANFL all do come to the territory and play footy during your summer in the Darwin wet season.

Shock horror, during winter in the southern states is our summer. Imagine the Australian A B and other cricket players coming to Darin to play in the off season. Yep they do that too.

Before Olympic events in the tropics, competitors come to Darwin to train and compete.

What SEABL is doing is playing basketball during the traditional basketball season. It was the NBL that moved, and to be honest, I would love to go back to a winter NBL season and then I would have summer NBA action. It would be 365 days a year hoops. Wow the. Our players could play a full Europe season, or full G league or heaven forbid just rest for the summer.

FM

Um cough cough, stop being some minority panda with your minority views about scheduling. The NBL hasn't been a winter sport since like 1998, get over it. The NBA and FIBA leagues are all mainly like October-June type dates, so get over it that OZ basketball is in line with FIBA/NBA the whole basketball world stop with the minority view die hard rubbish... Um guys in the AFL who play SANFL do so during the same calendar season not in separate seasons like NBL/SEABL. But you probably think Basketball is in OZ is being flexible by doing this um no sorry it's not it's going against all mainstream sports in OZ by having the two top-tiers play in separate seasons... In SANFL for example or VFL clubs they form affiliate deals with AFL clubs, so guys not picked in the match day squad can play 2nd-tier, as opposed to playing 2nd-tier in summer(if SANFL/VFL were summer comps). Due to separate seasons, affiliate connections between the NBL and SEABL is not possible. I've written to the NBL about this schedule matter, and i also suggested LK buys the SEABL so he can have more say on 2nd tier basketball in oz and development league eg ala NBA owns the G-League..
Basketball should follow all other mainstream sports in oz with scheduling and stop being a minority style in it's outlook. The CBA used to be in the winter season in line with the NBL and there was a closer connection between the two as i've discussed in this thread..

Good point "Anonymous" who gave a detailed description of the local based system and recruitment stuff..
I think SEABL has u-20's comp(could be wrong, but BigV has u-20's comp)..

I wonder if BA subsidise any of the SEABL clubs eg help pay for travel costs etc and coaching staff etc via grants$ and other subsidies eg stadium hire etc..

Okay, good points by some and the 7 to 9 spots, but everyone expect Anthony drimic to be very dominant at the seabl level eg like how say Lanard copeland was in the NBL very dominant or ricky grace..