e final four for the National Basketball League has been determined as the Cairns Taipans scored a 90-87 overtime victory over the Perth Wildcats to claim a berth in the 2011 iiNet NBL Finals Series and eliminate the Wollongong Hawks from contention, while the Townsville Crocodiles clinched second place with an 82-72 road win over the Melbourne Tigers. With the [...]
The race for the 2011 National Basketball League crown is down to just five teams following Round 23 of the iiNet NBL Championship. Just five teams are still in the hunt for the iiNet NBL Championship – New Zealand, Perth, Townsville, Wollongong and Cairns. We take a look at each of the five remaining contenders and their chances of making [...]
The National Basketball League (NBL) has released its Preliminary Free Agents List in order to allow clubs to begin planning their recruitment process for the 2011/12 iiNet NBL Championship season. The list shows players from all clubs that will finish their current contracts at the end of the 2010/11 iiNet NBL Championship season. Some of the league’s leading stars appear [...]
New Zealand Breakers’ superstar guard Kirk Penney has claimed his second National Basketball League Player of the Month award, while rookie Melbourne Tigers’ head coach Darryl McDonald has capped a stunning debut by winning the iiNet NBL Championship’s Coach of the Month honour for February. MVP contender Penney, who also previously won the monthly player honour in December 2010, took [...]
After a tumultuous week for the Melbourne Tigers which saw legendary former National Basketball League player Darryl McDonald succeed Al Westover as head coach and two star players depart the club, ‘D-Mac’ says he and his team are ready for their iiNet NBL Championship game against the Wollongong Hawks on Sunday afternoon. McDonald, previously an assistant coach with Melbourne, was [...]
The prospect of a New Zealand-based side winning an Australian-based professional sporting competition might be hard for most Australian sports fans to swallow but it is a very real possibility in the National Basketball League with the New Zealand Breakers setting the pace on the court and also scoring some massive slam dunks off it. The Breakers currently sit atop [...]
Australian Opals star Penny Taylor has decided to leave the current European Basketball season early and will return home to Melbourne this week. Taylor, who has been playing for club Fenerbahce in the highly regarded Euroleague, has cited personal reasons, including a family illness, for taking a break from the game. “I have loved playing for such a proud club [...]
For those in the streetball scene, Homicide might be a more than familiar name. What most might not know is that Corey “Homicide” Williams has moved his game from the playground to the hardwood. After travelling around the US, Brazil, France, Venezuela and Germany, playing with different players and pitting his style of play against a wide variety of others, [...]
Tonight, expect the “Homicide” Williams who was the champion to the Crocodiles faithful to play with confidence and flair that made him a Townsville icon. Nostalgia has nothing to do with the reigning National Basketball League MVP’s attitude. Rather, it’s revenge for that humbling November defeat. “We got our asses bust and I played like s*** on top of it,” [...]
New Zealand Breakers’ star shooting guard Kirk Penney has been named as the National Basketball League’s Player of the Month for December, while Perth Wildcats’ mentor Rob Beveridge has taken out Coach of the Month honours. Penney took out the award for December after polling 38 votes to finish ahead of Melbourne Tigers’ guard Corey ‘Homicide’ Williams (25 votes) and [...]
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