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Tassie NBL Advisory Board

But what does this mean for a second perf team?

Huskies tried to get the deck for peanuts as well, they just didn’t have the money they told everyone.

Is Stewart still mates with Bartlett or is he on his own now???.

The Huskies had the right idea re: acquiring a stadium and precinct on the cheap. However this was only doable with a team entered into the NBL. LK has basically been alerted to a property play opportunity because of them and will go it along as he doesn't need anyone else to be in on it.

It's a win for LK, the NBL, and we the fans but not so for the Huskies. They were naive in thinking LK would aid them in such a lucrative deal when the man himself is involved in the property development industry.

It doesn't seem like Huskies are relevant anymore.

I think this is a good move by LK, he's got BTas, State Government, Tassie powerbrokers and business people in the same room and who, through advisory board, become invested in the NBL/Tas team success. He has the State Gov particularly invested through the development of the precinct.

It's a good way to have people working with you instead of against you. I think the team will need to be heavily backed by the local community to succeed and be sustainable - and that requires the locals, the local businesses, the local Gov and the local association(s) heavily invested from the get go.

I would say its pretty basic and obvious:
If you want to start a new NBL team, the FIRST person you should speak to is the guy who owns and runs the league. (Or at least talk to his people.)

Running off, doing your own thing, telling the world what YOU're going to do, is a very risky strategy. Especially when you obviously don't have the financial muscle to back up your big talk.

I would further speculate, that after his initial attempts were knocked back, fielding teams in the NBL1 and NZNBL was an attempt to force the issue by showing how many supporters they had. I suspect LK was not impressed.

Looking from the outside, I’d say LK didn’t think to much of the huskies guy first up told he couldn’t get a licence straight away. Huskies guy the gets shits enters NZNBL which totally pisses off LK so after that no chance. Bartlett tells McCoy to shove his conditions and huskies guy takes over nbl1 teams and his bravo is found out and his billions was indeed not enough. LK now sets up advisory board to see if it works, get government money, the DEC and if so it will happen, if not there will be no team.

This might be a dumb question but did LK tell the Huskies guys from day one that he was going to be the main player in developing a Tassie team and that they should've held onto their money?

Good signs though, LK won’t cop any crap. The huskies guy billions ran out fast.