Has been a week or more since last Tasmanian thread.

Bendigo

Lol Bendigo

The Tassie deal is reportedly going do be done before Christmas. One way or the other.

Never the Gold Coast again please.

it would be great to have a second adelaide team, play out of titanium arena, not have joey wright coach and maybe recruit some south australians

I'd be willing to jump ship to a second ADELAIDE team, if they played out of the powerhouse. That nostalgia will never die.

the entertainment centre has been empty most weeks and the seats that are filled are mostly freebee give aways

BENDIGO is ready

Tassie, Wellington, Canberra.

I'd hope a fat no to Tassie, Canberra and definitely not Bendigo. Wellington should be next for mine.

There is no one as ready as Tassie.

The longer Tasmanian decision takes the less likely you would think.

Mt. Gambier are ready 2 go.

With a new $40mil stadium to boot.

Nz population is around 5 million. Possibly support 2 teams.

South Australia is around 1.6 million probably stick with 1 team for now with a plan to expand in the future.

Brisbane around 2.3 million same plan as Adelaide.

Population of Perth 1.9 million (wa) around 2.6 million.

Melbourne 4.9 million (vic total pop 6.3)
Possibly build towards a 3rd team in the future.

Sydney 5.3 million (nsw) 7.5 million. Possibly new team in the future.

The Estimated Resident Population for the Illawarra is 436,117, Wollongong 203,487 and the Shoalhaven 96,967.

Cairns around 150 000 (north qld) 231 000
(Far north qld) around 280 000

Tasmania around 515 000

Japan around 126 million at least 2 teams

Jakarta 9 million 1 team

Phillippines 105 million

Malaysia 32 million

Expect Asian teams in the future of the NBL.

Bendigo population 110 000
Nbl1

Mt Gambier around 25 000

MtGambier in the NBL? Tell'em you're dreaming.

Canberra population around 450 000

(The TV rights will then be worth anything!)

Are the tv rights worth anything now?

(Honestly, that would be the end of financial woes in the NBL. I believe they will pay huge sums to get Asain competitors in non-Asain markets then they punt the shit out of it.)

This is what LK is looking at and he's mentioned it in a few interviews now.
You do know where part of Asia right?
If the NBL has a cap system in place it would be fine.

The slingers started of as the Canberra cannons then the hunter pirates, becoming the slingers in 06-07. Looks like bad management.

The Slingers started off as the Slingers. They left the NBL when the Singapore Government withdrew their travelling subsidy.

Broome

Heard from someone today who should know, and where he got this info from I don't know was "the deal is a go". (Tassie)
Time will tell.

(The Slingers started off as the Slingers. They left the NBL when the Singapore Government withdrew their travelling subsidy.)


The club managed to play all its remaining games of the 2002-03 NBL season, but were unable to hold on to their star players, including C. J. Bruton, the son of then-coach Cal Bruton and all of their imports. Canberra finished with an 11–19 record and the team was bought by a consortium that moved the team to Newcastle.
After relocating to Newcastle, the new owners renamed the franchise the Hunter Pirates, keeping with the Cannons' maritime battlers theme.

In the end, the Pirates' licence was sold to a Singapore consortium, who renamed the club as the Singapore Slingers and began competing in the 2006–07 season .
Although the Slingers had relocated to Singapore before the start of the 2006–07 NBL season, they still played occasional home games in Newcastle.

So yeah they where Canberra and the Newcastle finally the slingers.

Bendigo.


- Bendigo Stadium has a 10 court precinct with a brand new show court that seats 4000 without added seating
- Bendigo stadium is the largest provider of grassroots basketball in the state
- the city already hosts the popular and successful WNBL team spirit and the SEABL team the braves. Both teams have had great successes and support.
- Basketball in Bendigo has seen rises every year at a grass roots level
- Bendigo is a growth corridor with over 115,000 population it is the biggest inland city in Australia

I think Bendigo as a regional representative of Shepparton, Maryborough, Kyneton, Echuca, Castlemaine etc. could make it even more attractive.

Bendigo got nice club house, restaurant and bar as well. I've always enjoyed my time when I’ve been there for basketball.

Nowra

(Bendigo got nice club house, restaurant and bar as well. I've always enjoyed my time when I've been there for basketball.)

Well you will like the nbl1 then.

Years down the track...
Geelong will be the third vic nbl team.
Newcastle or western Sydney will be the third nsw team.
Gold Coast the third qld team
A third nz team will be viable in 10 years.

Canberra will come in likely team 11 or 12 with a 6000 seat stadium already available.
Wellington will come in when nz breakers become Auckland. Team 11 or 12.
Hobart/tas will be in year 21 or 22 I reckon. Team 10.


16 team league within next 10-20 years

(Bendigo is a growth corridor with over 115,000 population it is the biggest inland city in Australia)

That doesn't sound right. Do you know the town of Canberra?
And Toowoomba also has a larger population at 135 000

(ASEAN Basketball League just expanded with another two teams taking their total to 10 across eight countries. NBL missed the boat with this one, the Asia option is done.)

Maybe but would you bet your house on that?
This is what LK is working with fiba, the NBL isn't looking for 10 new team, it was a maximum of 4 Asian teams to tap into bigger markets in the region.

#495
Always enjoyed the seabl, not that impressed with nbl1 last season, standard had dropped.

The Asian teams already hate the fact that the Oceania teams are now part of FIBA Asia and have dominated. I'd highly doubt that the Asean League would want the same thing to occur at club level.

^Tell that to LK, he's the one who came up with this idea.

#507

LK doesn't want the NBL to join the Asian league, he wants 2 to 4 Asian teams to join the NBL. Haven’t you guys read these LK interviews?

The Asean area is classified (afaik) as locals, Aussies. So no biggie.

Oh no Kobethinksherulez is wrong!
So many posts so much shit.

Hopefully tassie, then Canberra, then either welly or the good coast or Townsville.

"Doesn't mean using "Asean" to refer to the continent of Asia is correct"
I don't think anyone has said that.

Koberulz is right this thread is painful.