Anonymous
Years ago

Lamelo ball 18 today

Big day for the young man.
Happy birthday melo, first up training session then straight to the local RSL for parmi and beers.

Who is the youngest player to play in the NBL?

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Cram  
Years ago

I remember Daniel Egan was 16/17 in his rookie season. I imagine early days of the league there were a bunch of younger players, before college was a consideration for most

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Steven  
Years ago

Paul Webb played for Brisbane in the 80s believe he was either 15 or 16.
Some others to play before 18th birthday including DPs are
Luc Longley (17)
Wani Swaka Lo Buluk (17)
Sam MacKinnon (17)

I'm sure there are many others that other posters can fill in.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

How did Daniel Egan go at that time?

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John  
Years ago

*Parma

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Paul Webb played for Brisbane in the 80s believe he was either 15 or 16.
Some others to play before 18th birthday including DPs are
Luc Longley (17)
Wani Swaka Lo Buluk (17)
Sam MacKinnon (17)

What teams where they playing for at the time and out of how good were they at that time ?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Happy birthday melo

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Cram  
Years ago

Egan didn't play a lot in his rookie season, but when he did he looked ok. His second season he started to get more regular minutes and actually contributed well.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Egan didn't play a lot in his rookie season, but when he did he looked ok. His second season he started to get more regular minutes and actually contributed well.



I had a look on google it's hard to find much info on the NBL players rookie years.

NBL and AB needs to spend some cash on developing and updating players and teams database.

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Cram  
Years ago

I think the sportstg website has all the historical stats of players, though basically no other info.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

*Parmie

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Shayno  
Years ago

*parma and a pint

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Anonymous  
Years ago

*parmi and a jug

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Anonymous  
Years ago

why ruin a good schnitty?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

It's a shame the ball family aren’t here to celebrate his 18th with him.

How long till we see the Lavar in the gong?
Just in the last few days Illawarra house prices have jumped up by 20%

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Anonymous  
Years ago

schnitty and redbull

You never know he might fancy a good old surf n turf and a few rum and cokes to get the party started.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Lavar is already in illawara with his son.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Lavar is already in illawara with his son.


Is he? Why haven't we seen him yet?
He’s hard to miss

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Lamelo is in Melbourne with rj. Rj got a toy kiwi for his bday and told melo in nz everyone is saying bro a lot .

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Shayno  
Years ago

*Double parma and a shot of vengeance

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Anonymous  
Years ago

^nice

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Anonymous  
Years ago

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AngusH  
Years ago

LaVar has been a bit more low-key lately it seems. Or the (social)media folks are ignoring him. Hopefully the former.

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chillbaby  
Years ago

wasnt Shane Heal 16 on NBL debut? from memory he contributed straight away

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Anonymous  
Years ago

wasnt Shane Heal 16 on NBL debut? from memory he contributed straight away

He was a good player, who did he play for at that time?

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Big Ads  
Years ago

Heal debut for the Bullets in 1988. He was 17 and turned 18 that year.

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Anonymous  
Years ago



Heal debut for the Bullets in 1988. He was 17 and turned 18 that year


Do you know his stats from that year ?
He had a long career didn't he play for gc blaze a several years back?

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Cram  
Years ago

"Heal debut for the Bullets in 1988. He was 17 and turned 18 that year


Do you know his stats from that year ? "

According to Sports TG, 15 ppg 2.2apg 45% FG 39% three point 87% FT in 27 minutes a game. Pretty damn good i'd say!

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Anonymous  
Years ago

That's real good. Does that make him the NBL rookie goat? His 3 point shot was magic.

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Cram  
Years ago

That's a bigger discussion. Newley and Ingles both had great rookie campaigns

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Steven  
Years ago

Sam MacKinnon also had an impressive rookie year (1994) turning 18 later that season.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Sam MacKinnon also had an impressive rookie year (1994) turning 18 later that season.

Do you know his stats for that year?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

The GOAT debuted as an 18 year old I think and averaged close to 30.

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Yinka Dare  
Years ago

Zac Delaney was 12

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Yeah Gaze as an 18 year old rookie averaged 29.1 points on 57% shooting, 6.7 boards, 4.1 assists, 1.6 steals and 0.3 blocks.

End of discussion

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Perthworld  
Years ago

Best rookie season = Gaze as above.
Best rookie single game performance = Ingles on debut (!!!) in Dragons vs. Kings at the AIS Arena.

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Libertine  
Years ago

Stephen Markovic was 16 or 17 when he debuted for the Razorbacks.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

End of discussion


Lol Not really it's just getting started

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Anonymous  
Years ago

So we have :

Heal debut for the Bullets in 1988. He was 17 and turned 18 that year
According to Sports TG, 15 ppg 2.2apg 45% FG 39% three point 87% FT in 27 minutes a game.


Yeah Gaze as an 18 year old rookie averaged 29.1 points on 57% shooting, 6.7 boards, 4.1 assists, 1.6 steals and 0.3 blocks.

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Anonymous  
Years ago






So we have :

Heal debut for the Bullets in 1988. He was 17 and turned 18 that year
According to Sports TG, 15 ppg 2.2apg 45% FG 39% three point 87% FT in 27 minutes a game.


Yeah Gaze as an 18 year old rookie averaged 29.1 points on 57% shooting, 6.7 boards, 4.1 assists, 1.6 steals and 0.3 blocks.


Sam MacKinnon
While Playing for South East Melbourne Magic in NBL 1994

Season Statistics
PPG 5.7 RPG 3.3 APG 2.8 FG% 56.4

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Anonymous  
Years ago


Stephen Markovic was 16 or 17 when he debuted for the Razorbacks.
While Playing for West Sydney Razorbacks in NBL 2002/03

Season Statistics PPG 2.6 RPG 0.8 APG 0.4 FG% 66.7
Heal debut for the Bullets in 1988. He was 17 and turned 18 that year
According to Sports TG, 15 ppg 2.2apg 45% FG 39% three point 87% FT in 27 minutes a game.


Yeah Gaze as an 18 year old rookie averaged 29.1 points on 57% shooting, 6.7 boards, 4.1 assists, 1.6 steals and 0.3 blocks.


Sam MacKinnon also had an impressive rookie year (1994) turning 18 later that season.
While Playing for South East Melbourne Magic in NBL 1994

Season Statistics
PPG 5.7 RPG 3.3 APG 2.8 FG% 56.4

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UseTaHoop  
Years ago

Parmi, Parma, pint etc. doesn't matter.

Just as long as he goes to the Dabdo Dogs.

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