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Aussie hoops

• Asylum, Afrobasket and opportunity: South Sudanese-Australian basketball deserves a fair go

• Rock, paper, scissor, ball! Basketball Australia's Return to Basketball guidelines

• Australia and New Zealand junior basketball prospect tracker

• A dive into mystery and majesty: The Andrew Gaze Slam Dunk board game

• Prehab before rehab: How strength and conditioning is key to reducing ACL injury risk within female sport

• Lou Brown: Six and Out

Lists

• Current Australians in the NBA

• Aussies in college and Europe lists are being rebuilt (Substack does not support HTML tables, so bear with us as we work through the challenges and compile the newest lists.)

NBA/WNBA stories

• Andrew Bogut on life in Milwaukee and the injury that changed everything

• Here’s how Luc Longley proved himself on the Chicago Bulls, despite Michael Jordan's trash talking

• San Antonio’s spiritual leader: How Patty Mills rode the rollercoaster and kept his Spurs afloat

• The Last Dance: How Luc Longley remembers his time with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls

• The Boomer and NBA Australian that never was: Can Australia still claim Kyrie Irving?

• The evolution of Ben Simmons' accent

• Andrew Bogut doesn’t give a f—k

• Ben Simmons: The tale of a basketball maverick

• The playoffs beat writer life: Inside the twists and turns of an NBA playoff series with the Philadelphia 76ers

• It began with Timms: Here's why the Phoenix Mercury flourishes with Australian talent

National teams

• We broke this: Matisse's really an Aussie: Could we see Thybulle in Boomers green and gold beside Ben Simmons?

• A look into Australian basketball's forgotten gold medal heroes

• From ground level in Melbourne, August 2019: Patty Mills closes out Team USA, secures historical moment for Australian basketball

• A Game of Mistakes: How the Boomers' team chemistry broke Team USA's defence

• "Anything was possible": Belinda Snell, Kristi Harrower remember Opals 2006 World Cup win

• Ranking Australia's top ten Boomers of the past decade

• Discussing the top 10 Australian Opals of the past decade

Upcoming prospects

• Could Josh Giddey be Australia's answer to Luka Dončić?

• Josh Green on chasing dreams, being a Boomer and the Tokyo Olympics

• Isaac White on Linsanity, the CBU decision and pro opportunities

Modern NBL

• Has the NBL's Next Stars program peaked too early with LaMelo Ball and R.J. Hampton?

• A look inside the strangest Game 2 in NBL Grand Final history with Ben Mallis

• Flight risk: LaMelo Ball says he'll play out the NBL season, but should he?

• The Consequence of Promise: Breaking down RJ Hampton, the NBL and the Next Stars program

• How Xavier Cooks joining Sydney and not Illawarra, is a case study on fit, money and league parity

• A barebones guide to the NBL's salary cap system

• On Next Star eligibility, and should the NBL's Collective Bargaining Agreement be made public?

• Here's why Matt Walsh is Tony Cocking’s spirit animal

NBL classics

• Roar of Redemption: The story of the 1997 NBL Melbourne Tigers

• Reliving the South Dragons championship and how it ended all too soon

• Revisiting the '96 South East Melbourne Magic: A tale of how resilience and fortitude led to victory

Interviews

• Meet Leigh Ellis: Australian basketball's media pioneer

• How Kane Pitman became the Milwaukee Bucks' most unexpected beat writer

• From Kalgoorlie to Philly: Ben Mallis on chasing dreams and living the Sixers beat

• From bleachers to press room: How Warren Yiu became Australian basketball's storyteller

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