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This is becoming a joke and even though we might have the skills of the NBA our troops do well on the global stage given the status of NBL compared to Soccer or Rugby or League.
 
Step 1 negotiate a deal with channel 10, 7 or 9 to put the NBL back on free to air. Use that money wisely and don't grow to quickly. Slingers can go, Dragons can go and West Sydney should not exist. Crowds were at their highest when NBL was free to air.
 
Stop overcharging $50 an adult ticket and compare your family pricing $1300 versus $500 for both AFL and NRL.
 
 
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Absolutely
 
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https://www.smh.com.au/news/basketball/kings-stave-off-threat/2008/05/27/1211654010772.html

 
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Imagine a national league in any sporting code in Australia without a team in the Brisbane AND Sydney city. Absurd.
 
What a poorly run league when they have such a good product
 
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https://www.smh.com.au/news/basketball/nbl-fights-for-its-life/2008/05/27/1211654031932.html

and finally nbl.com.au has something

https://www.smh.com.au/news/basketball/nbl-fights-for-its-life/2008/05/27/1211654031932.html
 
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Just heard today that the Bullets have given all their players a release from their contracts, that to me sounds like the end is very nigh for that club
 
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RIP Brissy Bullets
 
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Yes Bull I heard that too sounds bads as Rod said what sort of competition will have if Sydney loses it license and Bullets go under. I did also hear that the Kings got an extension to  pay their players.
 
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As a fan of sport per se (like we all are here) I'm bloody pissed off about the decay of the national basketball league, but I don't quite know where to direct the blame.

Sure the league itself has done bugger all in terms of marketing the comp but it just seems like the whole comp is out of whack, ie clubs paying more than they can afford for their playing rosters (in an effort to be competitive) and running at massive losses financially as a result

It's hard to know what the solution is for the nbl  

 
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 the clubs are going down cause the sports losing followers..they think that if they put one nbl game on a week on free to air tv theyll get less people wanting foxtel but then each club loses potential people getting in the doors people wanting to sponsor them young people getting into the sport..all because of  wanting people to pay 50 bucks a month for pay tv..i mean if they like the sport alot maybe if they see a game on tv once a week theyll want to get foxtel so they could watch a few games a week.. ...the best days where watching one nbl game a week and a full nba game on channel 10 on saturdays...if i didnt cap i wouldnt even follow a nbl game because of no free to air coverage making me lose interest about 10 years ago.
 
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Great lets sell one of the best teams of the NBL with a proud history to owners of a foreign country, a third world one at that. Phil basketball league is just crap.

Anyone smell corruption her, ie, Kings sign a Philo player and then all the sudden we are hearing the Kings are being shopped to Philippine owners.

https://www.smh.com.au/news/basketball/as-nbl-struggles-andrew-bogut-bags-80m-deal/2008/05/29/1211654220809.html
 
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Mickey Mouse League now. I feel for the players.
 
 
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Wow what a joke of a league. No Bullets and no kings for the upcoming season.
 
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Kings players still chasing outstanding wages owed to them. Now that is seriously fucked up. Unbelievable!!!!
 
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National Bullshit League
 
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 Lawsuit

https://www.smh.com.au/news/basketball/owner-threatens-to-sue-nbl/2008/06/12/1212863835357.html

 
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all u hear on the news is crowd numbers are down..i dont get why the guys that run the nbl dont simply put 1 game a week on television for not 1 hour all cut up the full game so people can sit back and get the atmoshphere of the game..in the early 90s basketball was booming down under i used to love watching the magic and tigers local derbies on saturdays..there league is going down all because they want subsribers to foxtel ..it just seems really dumb.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by showmethemoney1:

all u hear on the news is crowd numbers are down..i dont get why the guys that run the nbl dont simply put 1 game a week on television for not 1 hour all cut up the full game so people can sit back and get the atmoshphere of the game..in the early 90s basketball was booming down under i used to love watching the magic and tigers local derbies on saturdays..there league is going down all because they want subsribers to foxtel ..it just seems really dumb.

I think one factor that's been a bit overlooked in all this (but is a major contributing factor to the league / teams' declines) is teams and players not promoting themselvs and their product in the community.

Back in the early days of the Bullets and Kings, their players would take 200 basketballs down the mall and hand them out to kids, sign autographs, do school visits ect. Nowadays players refuse to do that sort of thing, they want to train, play and get paid, that's it.

 

 
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 Good point Bull_Shark
 
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now the slingers have decided to give it a miss:
 
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its going to be dominated by the tigersin 2008-09, which considering sam mackinnon has just moved in next door to me, is not a bad thing
 
 
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Thanks Binomial. I didn't see that.
 
 
 
 
 
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