NBL | As it Stands: Round One
THE National Basketball League (NBL) commenced its 2023/24 season over the weekend, with some interesting results and performances coming from the opening few days of play. There were upsets, breakout efforts and big wins as the off-season ended and the real action finally got underway after some significant build up. Despite speculation around which sides […]
2023/24 NBL Team Preview – Illawarra Hawks
THE 2023/24 National Basketball League (NBL) is right around the corner, with the fixture set to kick off on Thursday, September 28. The season is shaping up like no other, with an unprecedented amount of young and international talent complimenting the homegrown players set to suit up in the nation’s premier basketball competition. The landscape […]
2022/23 NBL Team Wrap – Illawarra Hawks
SEASON 2022/23 of the NBL was not exactly ideal for the Illawarra Hawks, although the standings do not exactly reflect how strong the team performed at times. The Hawks finished 10th in the standings, with just a trio of wins next to their name, having struggled to put together four quarters across most of their […]
NBL End of Season Stats Wrap
THE REGULAR season fixture of the NBL wrapped over the weekend, with the race for the finals concluding in dramatic fashion in the final match of the weekend. Season 2022/23 had plenty of excitement, from close finishes and clutch performances, to big wins and dominant individual outings. Whether it was local or imported talent, there […]
NBL Team of the Week – Round 16
ROUND 16 of the NBL has wrapped and there were some big scores across the courts as some of the league’s best bucket getters fired their side to victory, while others performed admirably in defeat. In a round of upsets, there were some forgotten players that managed to pop up for some impressive performances. With […]
NBL Standouts – Round 16
ROUND 16 of the NBL is done and dusted, proving to be one of the surprising rounds of the 2022/23 season by the time the final match wrapped on Sunday afternoon. There were a handful of impressive upsets as some of the sides that have struggled to date in the fixture managed to take down […]
NBL Team of the Week – Round 15
ROUND 15 has come and gone, with some big scores posted across a bumper round of NBL action for season 2022/23. There were a whopping 11 games in Round 15 across the span of six days, with no shortage of action for fans to enjoy. It also meant there were plenty of opportunities for players […]
Harvey almost the hero against the throne
IT was the kind of Tyler Harvey performance that NBL fans had been waiting for all season, as the popular guard exploded to nearly get the Illawarra Hawks over the line for a massive upset against the ladder-leading Sydney Kings at Qudos Bank Arena on Sunday afternoon. If not for a heartbreaking loss at the […]
NBL Standouts – Round 7
ROUND 7 of the NBL has almost wrapped up, and the league returned from the FIBA break with a bang, as one of the closest seasons in recent memory continued. As is the case with any week, there were a fair few eye-catching performances from an individual perspective, as some of the competition’s biggest and […]
Froling fantastic in Hawks’ defeat
ALTHOUGH his side sustained a six-point loss in overtime at the hands of Melbourne United, Illawarra Hawks big man Sam Froling produced a dominant bigman performance at WIN Entertainment Centre on Saturday evening. The Hawks suffered a sixth consecutive loss, but it took overtime for United to get the job done as the two sides […]
