TB
Last month

NBL store post

Just saw the JL statement, any idea what was said?

Isaac
Last month

The NBL statement itself:

The NBL is aware of a social media post shared by the NBL Store today.

The NBL Store is managed independently of the NBL and its social media accounts managed by an external marketing agency. The post was not submitted to the NBL for approval prior to publication and was not authorised or approved by the NBL and has since been removed.

NBL Commissioner Jeremy Loeliger said: "The post was in extremely poor taste and demonstrated a complete lack of judgement by the NBL Store's external marketing agency. The NBL has zero tolerance in respect of such matters and the contract with the third party agency has been terminated with immediate effect.

“As we have repeatedly stated, we take the issue of player safety very seriously and the NBL is working closely with the Australian Basketball Players’ Association, our clubs and venues to maintain the highest standards of court maintenance."

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Isaac
Last month

Looks like this was it - a joke about sponsor decals being a banana peel.

Maybe focus on fixing the serious issue than worrying about a meme pic.twitter.com/yY4jLGB0yC
— MG (@mg5555mg) March 4, 2021

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TB
Last month

Haha, that's awesome. The company deserves a raise not termination.

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Perthworld
Last month

Geez, talk about being a little too touchy! Well played external marketing agency.

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Mystro
Last month

Pretty funny.

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KET
Last month

.....

Sounded like they did something racist reading the statement

That's a silly reaction!

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Anonymous
Last month

Maybe LK's son should take over the Merch stuff, Oh wait....

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Chairman Of The Bored
Last month

Andrew Bogut on Twitter today claiming clubs and players have been warned not to speak about decals or risk being fined. Pretty difficult not to believe that would be the case now.

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Chairman Of The Bored
Last month

Andrew Bogut on Twitter today claiming clubs and players have been warned not to speak about decals or risk being fined. Pretty difficult not to believe that would be the case now.

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KET
Last month

It's not like having decals is new so why is it controversial now and not before? This isn’t special to NBL or Australia.

Is it sheer excess of decals?

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Anonymous
Last month

Fining players for talking about the decal issue is a slippery slope.

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Anonymous
Last month

A player talking about a serious safety issue is not bringing the game into disrepute, but league itself having an unsafe work environment is.

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Anonymous
Last month

Bogut was seriously good player and made millions and is allowed an opinion, I'm certain the players battling for a living are happy enough playing on decals as it helps pay their wage. Obviously we don’t want anybody hurt but could the shoes not be as good as yesteryear.

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Anonymous
Last month

The shoes????

Hahahhahahahahahhahaha

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Chairman Of The Bored
Last month

Yeah they should go back to wearing Chuck Taylors.

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koberulz
Last month

Something must have changed. Advertising decals have been on the courts since what, the 80s?

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Anonymous
Last month

Felix Von Hofe raised a good point today. The bulk of the whingeing is coming from the same place it always does - Sydney. The slipperiness of the decals might be an issue but it has been blown out of proportion by the usual suspects, Bogut and Smith.

And of course the point FVH made went right over Bogut's head.

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Anonymous
Last month

Yes decals have been on the floors for years, why slip now, look at the shoes.

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Anonymous
Last month

Good to see Van Hofe post on the hoops forum for his failing sportsbet funded podcast.

I guess a solid gig for a failed bball player! Cant hate too much

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Anonymous
Last month

I have seen plenty of decals placed on NBL floors. Find the right business to make and lay the decals and you are fine. A dodgy one initially can be fixed by spraying the decal with hairspray. Shoes... yeah/nah.

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Anonymous
Last month

#217 must be fun at parties.

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Anonymous
Last month

Van hofe must be fun at parties

"Gday punters molohofe cocktail here with the odds"

Clown!

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Perthworld
Last month

He's worse than Heal and Homicide combined.

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Anonymous
Last month

Thats a hard bar to pass!

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Old Mate
Last month

36ers import John Gilchrist ruptured his ACL slipping on a decal in Melbourne back in 2010 I think it was, so probably makes sense that there's concern around it.

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Anonymous
Last month

Not for Van Hofe! His bball career looked like he had no ACLS!

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Anonymous
Last month

I have seen him play a few times in Seabl, I think. Oh that's right I can't really remember because he was indeed forgettable.

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Anonymous
Last month

The way he talks you would think he was an NBA All Star.
Hard to watch those Sportsbet adds before NBL games....

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Anonymous
Last month

He sells a lot of tickets of himself, to himself!

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Anonymous
Last month

To any around here have achieved nothing but always here to bag people. You must have miserable lives dreaming of what could have been.

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Anonymous
Last month

Thanks Felix!

"Gday punters, FIGJAM here"

Im taking the line in more company lines coming out of my mouth weekly.

Happy punting!

And please remember,
Im the man, and gamble responsibly!

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Anonymous
Last month

Ok, that was funny! ^^^

Van Hofe isnt too bad just simply reading sportsbet scripts imo.

Everything else is horrible

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Anonymous
Last month

Guy is the definition of arrogant.
Played against him many years ago.
Flog

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Anonymous
Last month

Just check his socials and it tells the whole story!

He'd buy tickets to watch himself in the mirror

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