LeBron James,Victor Wembanyama and the NBA’s superstars are all lining up for Paris 2024 and Brian Goorjian knows he will need a gritty Boomers team to stare down an Olympic field like no other.
The Tasmania JackJumpers won the NBL title,now they’re planning an epic celebration,and their coach is leading the way.
Tasmania forward Jack McVeigh took a step over the half-court,dribbled between his legs and launched himself into the history books as his miracle shot put his JackJumpers within one win of a maiden NBL championship.
Lauren Jackson’s sixth Women’s National Basketball League title was secured on Sunday,remarkably 25 years after her first.
As one of the people building Tasmania’s AFL expansion club,which will reveal its colours and identity on Monday,Jack Riewoldt does not have to look far to find a blueprint for building a successful team from scratch.
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Denzel Valentine has Greek mango yoghurt to help him last through weights and practice.
Melbourne United centre Ariel Hukporti has embraced a complex role to help his NBL club chase this year’s title but he’s skills look even better suited to the NBA,which he hopes is his next stop.
The NBL boss has had enough of hearing about the glory days – the boom times of the 1990s when the league was a TV staple and Andrew Gaze led the household names. The NBL might be at its zenith right now,he says.
A diehard Roosters fan,who is a filmmaker in Los Angeles,has been taking names from the team and using them in movies and TV shows for years.
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