Basketball Australia is pleased to announce that tickets for the 2007 FIBA Oceania Men’s Championship presented by Resi Mortgage, between the Australia Post Boomers and the New Zealand Tall Blacks, will go on sale tomorrow at 12 noon. The winner…
All media wishing to attend the 2007 FIBA Oceania Men’s Championship between the Australia Post Boomers and the New Zealand Tall Blacks must contact Basketball Australia by August 1. Australia will play a three-test series against New Zealand at the…
Mackinnon to join new team Australia Post Boomer and reigning National Basketball League MVP Sam Mackinnon will suit up for the Maroochydore Clippers in Queensland on Monday. The 2006 Gaze Medal recipient will play for the Under 16 boy’s rep…
Basketball Australia will host a press conference with Australia Post Boomers Head Coach Brian Goorjian in Sydney tomorrow. Goorjian will discuss the intentions of players Andrew Bogut, David Andersen, Matthew Nielsen and others at the press conference, as well as…
Basketball sensation Joe Ingles will don the Australian colours for the first time tomorrow when he takes the court alongside Boomers veteran Jason Smith. Ingles and Smith will conduct a clinic for 100 children of Australia Post staff at the…
Australia Post Boomers Head Coach Brian Goorjian returns to Australia early next week after completing a world tour that included visits to four countries. Goorjian visited Australian players and foreign coaches in Germany, Russia, Lithuania and the United States to…
Australia Post Boomers squad member David Andersen will play in the Final Four of the prestigious Euroleague competition. Andersen’s Russian club side CSKA Moscow advanced after defeating Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv in the quarter final playoffs, 92-71. The 212cm Victorian…
Nielsen leads Vilnius in Championship decider Australia Post Boomers forward Matthew Nielsen led his Lithuanian club side Lietuvos Rytas in the final of the ULEB Cup in Belgium overnight. But it wasn’t enough to stop Real Madrid from winning their…
Basketball included in National Sports Museum It is with great pleasure that we advise that Basketball Australia has accepted an invitation to include basketball in the National Sports Museum as a feature sport. The modern and stylish National Sports Museum…
Newley bounces into Murray Bridge Basketball Australia in association with Australia Post held its first ‘Whose Locker is it?’ promotional clinic at the Murray Bridge Show Grounds in South Australia on Sunday, with Boomers star Brad Newley shooting hoops with the…
Boomer legend retires The National Basketball League (NBL) has lost a long-serving legend of the game with 20 year veteran and former Most Valuable Player Mark Bradtke announcing his retirement. A winner of the NBL’s MVP award in 2002, the…
Development camp a success Basketball Australia held a National Development Camp at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra last week. It was an important part of the talent identification for the 2009 Australian Emus and Gems squads, who…
Your weekly update on the progress of Australia Post Boomers centre Andrew Bogut in America. In Milwaukee’s latest eight games, the Bucks registered four wins and four losses. The fourth loss resulted in Head Coach Terry Stotts being stood down…
Mackinnon wins Gaze Medal Basketball Australia is pleased to announce that Australia Post Boomer Sam Mackinnon has been awarded the 2006 Gaze Medal for International Player of the Year. The award caps off an unprecedented year for the Brisbane-based forward,…
Basketball Australia is proud to announce a 17-man Australia Post Boomers squad, whose players will vie for a place on the national team to compete at the 2007 FIBA Oceania Qualifying Series in August. The Boomers have to defeat the…
Yes, Milwaukee Bucks centre Andrew Bogut said without hesitation. He did want to bounce back strong, writes Tom Enlund of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Bogut laid a goose egg in the points column in Milwaukee's blowout loss in Orlando on…
Basketball Australia is pleased to announce Brendan Joyce and Gordon McLeod as assistant coaches to Brian Goorjian for the Australia Post Boomers’ 2007 campaign. Joyce won a Gold Medal as assistant coach of the Australia Post Boomers Commonwealth Games team…
Mackinnon named NBL MVP Australia Post Boomer Sam Mackinnon has capped off a stunning year as captain of the Brisbane Bullets by winning the National Basketball League’s (NBL) Philips Most Valuable Player award, the Andrew Gaze Trophy, for the 2006/07…
