Hoops

Who has played for the most clubs?

Thanks Zodiac. I forgot that.

Before I looked in here I thought David Stiff as I remember him starting at Hobart and basically being successful everywhere else he went.

Brett Wheeler also came to mind but I think both must be a long way down the list

Great website. It took a Kiwi to create such a resource. Shame on you Aussies!

I once saw Ben Knight out at a wanky Sydney night club and asked in my drunken state whether he'd buy me a drink if I could name all the clubs he'd played for. I was bought a drink and it wasn't a schooner of VB.

"but if memory serves me correctly he had played for the Kings"

LOL "if memory serves me" of course he did play for the Kings under Goorjian at the tail end of their threepeat. Every game Fox showed was basically Kings. Kings TV so we were over saturated with coverage of that team.

Since 2012 Ben Knight came out of retirement briefly after four years to help the Kings out when they had some bigs injured but if memory serves me correctly he had played for the Kings before in the past so probably doesn't count as an addition.

btw Marcus Timmons was an import too.

The NBL's 2012 All-Time Player Directory has Ben Knight playign for 9 teams. Matt Shanahan also played for 9 teams.

Players with 7 teams - Vince Hinchen, Wayne Larkins, Aaron Trahair. S

Players with 6 teams - CJ Bruton, Simon Cottrell, Simon Kerle, Ben Melmeth, Ben Pepper, Ben Pepper, Andrew Svaldenis and Marcus Timmons.

So Hinchen would be the only import among that lot.

Are there any players to have hit the 6+ team mark since that directory was published in 2012?

Didn’t Shanahan play for the Magic before Giants?

Matt Shanahan played for 8 clubs:
North Melbourne Giants (5 seasons)
Brisbane Bullets (1 season)
Cairns Taipans (1 season)
Wollongong Hawks (2.5 seasons)
Canberra Cannons (0.5 seasons)
Hunter Pirates (1 season)
Perth Wildcats (2 seasons)
South Dragons (2 seasons)

Ben Knight, Vince Hinchen and Wayne Larkins all played for 7 clubs.

Simon Kerle, Andrew Svaldenis, Simon Cotterell, Marcus Timmons and Aaron Trahair played for 6.

Matt Shanahan.

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Without checking I'd say shanahan and Knight. Walker would be getting up there too. Is it a good thing they kept hanging around and were "wanted" or bad in that they never found a home.
Who would be up there in coaching?

I reckon Shanahan actually played for 9 teams, surely the record holder.

Shannahan played for 8 teams

I reckon there would be a few who have played for 5 or 6 clubs.
Shane Heal seems like he has hung his soap on a rope in a few locker rooms.

There would be heaps of "3 and 4 Clubbers" (too many to mention)

I can think of one "5 Clubber", and he would be handy with the 5 Club too
Petrie (5) (Razorbacks, Hawks, Gold Coast, Adelaide, Bullets)

Shanahan? Ben Knight?

OK so I have tried to write this topic three times now and deleted it each time. English is not my strong suit. So please bare with me.

I often wonder if Sport in Australia took the wrong path in having Associations rather than just school sport.

I wonder what might have been in Australia.

- Could we have had high school rivalrys where most of the school attends to support their varsity team. I believe some of the Private Schools do this really well right now.

- Players being recruited by colleges all over Australia to play for them. Remembering whilst we are not the best league in the world guys could get a 4 year education whilst playing state league calibre games like the AIS used to play SEABL and not having to leave the country.

- Could we have had our own College Basketball teams that went across country to play against others as opposed to State league. Adelaide Uni vs Uni of Melbourne or a local Derby of University of Adelaide (Sea of Blue,White,Red down one end) vs Flinders University (Sea of Purple down the other). Setting up strong alumni in each University to give back to the university.

- Then having one team per state as a NBL team but changing the rules to make the game revolve around entertainment and not sticking to FIBA rules. eg. make the court bigger, 3 sec defensive rule

Ok there are probably many downs sides to this as well. But I see major upside in that we would be including sport in the curriculum rather than parents having to shell major fees to local clubs to play district and having to spend value family time at club sport.

Ok so I hope I got all that out and made some kind of sense. Would like to start oa debate on this to hear the pros and cons of High School Sport vs Associations.