Lauren Jackson’s sixth Women’s National Basketball League title was secured on Sunday,remarkably 25 years after her first.
The NBA All-Star game is supposed to showcase basketball’s brightest talents,but Chicago Bulls great Scottie Pippen says high scoring does not equal entertaining and the lack of competitive spirit is bad for the sport.
As towering 224cm San Antonio rookie Victor Wembanyama rapidly moves towards dominating the NBA,scouts are combing the world - including Australia’s NBL - for a “Wemby stopper”.
Melbourne Tigers great Lanard Copeland still gets chills thinking about his side’s breakthrough 1993 NBL championship. Remarkably,Josh Giddey,son of Warrick,and Ben Simmons,son of Dave,star in the NBA these days.
Ian Clark is an NBA title winner but he still paid his respects to Lanard Copeland by asking for permission to wear the number 21 jersey for Melbourne United this NBL season.
The businessman pushed his other interests to the side to save the National Basketball League.
Why have so few pro sportsmen declared themselves gay during their playing careers? After coming out last year,this basketballer knows better than most.
More than 7000 fans turned out to watch the Sydney Kings beat Melbourne United in the first professional sporting fixture played on December 25 in Australia.
Isaac Humphries says he feels free and happy after last month announcing to the world that he was gay. Now he is looking at how he can improve life for people while continuing his NBL career.
It’s Neil Armstrong at the moon landing in reverse:one giant leap for Isaac Humphries,one more small step for mankind.
Melbourne United basketballer Isaac Humphries is the first and only openly gay male professional basketball player in the National Basketball League.