Hoops

What will be more successful, CLB or NBL?

Just sharing...not my work.

Honestly, I want the NBL and this new venture to succeed. Hopefully CLB helps make the NBL pull up their socks - something I'm sure Kestelman is capable of following through on.

Which marquee players would you want the CLB to attract?

Potential marquee players for new Champions League Basketball

Ok don't develop but if you fill it with overseas players how the hell is that helping find the aussie guys places to play ???

This league will heavily depend on a few things:

1: it needs to have a bigger budget (per match) than the NBL. I would be looking at a million dollar cap for the 10 weeks. This means an average of $10,000 a week per player, which could get some of the better euro players etc. during the offseason.

2: they need to get the best talent available, look into possibly forging a deal with NBA teams to get young players over for a quick pay boost.

3: no shortcuts, the product needs to be very professional, exciting and most importantly available to the public. They need to pump the Comp up massively, no marketing = no one cares.

Do it right, and I see that this could become a success.




Point 2 / thought this was supposed to be to develop and give australian basketballers an advantage and somewhere to play?????

I'm intrigued, will say Jack Bendat allow another businessman the chance to own a professional basketball club in Perth or would he own it himself. I don't believe Perth could sustai 2 NBL teams but if CLB gets up and is successful then there will be talk of CLB owners entering into NBL in many single team markets... Same could be said for Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and to a lesser extent NZ if not all the NBL team owners want to include their own team.

On another note if NBL teams are entered into CLB then it would be interesting to see what that could mean for sponsorship of you have the potential for your brand being seen 10 months of the year instead of October to Marcv that they currently gdt

At least their web site works on a mobile phone :) good luck to them! Not sure Aus can sustain both NBL and CLB tho :-S

At least their web site works on a mobile phone :) good luck to them! Not sure Aus can sustain both NBL and CLB tho :-S

I wonder if it could work well hand in hand with the NBL in a way.

I was wondering would this mean, say the 36ers enter a team in both leagues they could go to a guy like Brad Newley and offer him say $150-200k to play in the NBL and another $150-200k to play in the CLB, and have guys like Newley and some of our other top Aussies outside the NBA play in Australia using money from both leagues making $300-400k per year, also could help retain some of our top imports to play aswell in the same fashion.

CLB is not trying to compete with NBL, let alone the CBL or SEABL (or Big V, QBL etc etc.). It will sit as a complement to NBL, and above the other state-based /SEABL comps.

The NBL used to run winter alongside SEABL in any case.

The CLB, outside of the potential game here or there on a Friday or Saturday, are looking to conduct the majority of games on a Wednesday night and Sunday afternoon/evening.

Most state league / SEABL games are Saturday night, early Sunday afternoon. Most junior competitions are Friday night, Saturday.

Yes AFL / NRL are winter sports, but the NBL actually got to where it did in the first day when it was in fact a winter league.

I don't doubt they still need more investors / owners, but I actually think their proposed model and structure is a far more attractive and robust model than the current NBL.

Obviously time will tell, but do we really want to shoot down a potential new elite league before we give it a chance? Don't we all want a chance to watch elite level hoops all-year round in the country? I'm sure most players would be loving the prospect of this new league...