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Big Marty

Years ago

National League may not exist from 09 onwards

Considering someone took a worse league that was completely defunct (incase you don't remember, it was called the NSL) and turned it into a multi-million dollar league that is now starting to become a "world renowned" (that means it's popular enough to warrant international attention) then the NBL revamp is more than capable of doing the same.

The legaue should focus on its flagship players the same way the NBA does. Need to lure in major sporting sponsors like Nike or Adidas and get them into league advertising and financing.

Probably the only way the league can expand.

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Anonymous

Years ago

Sigh.

Apparently the "NewBL" is to enforce stricter control of ownership, yadda yadda.

But to the average Joe Punter, there needs to be more agressive marketing. The Sixers ad on Channel 9 is almost painful - the only Sixers footage it shows is a tip off of one of their training games?!

From the public's perspective, there's little to hook them into going to a basketball match. Few real superstars, rivalries that don't mean much to anyone who isn't already a fan, a playoff system that has been changed so much even fans have trouble keeping up with it. Of course, the biggest problem of all is it's not on free to air, so they can't even get a taste of it without having to shell out money.

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vanexel31

Years ago

this would be horrible, basically ABL being the highest quality of basketball in Australia. One thing i wonder is how does the sheffield shield cricket survive and NBL cant? i see a lot of them cricket games on flicking trough Foxtel and nobody is there. A 4 is hit an it sounds like 5 people are clapping. They get a heap of live coverage on fox, plenty of sponsors and a healthy competition. can someone fill me in I must be honest and say i do know much about cricket, and how it manages to survive when NBL is struggling.

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