29/08/2008 | The Brisbane public may be given the chance to own a new team in the 2009-10 NBL.
With financially troubled owner Eddy Groves handing back the club's licence to the NBL, Brisbane will be without a...
29/08/2008 | The Canberra Capitals would still employ Carrie Graf as head coach even if she became the Opals' new coach, chief executive Mark Cartwright said yesterday.
Graf is the favourite to replace Jan Stirli...
29/08/2008 | Opals captain Lauren Jackson had an operation in Sydney yesterday to repair a painful problem in her ankle.
The Olympic silver medallist underwent keyhole surgery on her right ankle at St Vincent'...
25/08/2008 | Kobe Bryant provided a vital late spark as the United States reclaimed Olympic basketball supremacy yesterday, defeating world champion Spain 118-107 to bring the Americans their 13th gold medal in th...
22/08/2008 | Canberra Capitals game-breaker Abby Bishop will draw inspiration from the Australian Opals success in Beijing as she prepares for the new Women's National Basketball League season, which begins in Oct...
20/08/2008 | The Canberra Capitals need to recreate a ''Caps culture'' if they want to regain their WNBL championship title, guard Natalie Hurst says.
Hurst arrived back in the capital last weekend after a stella...
15/08/2008 | The NBL has finally secured television coverage for its upcoming season, although basketball fans may have to wait nearly a month into the competition to watch games live on Fox Sports.
With the s...
14/08/2008 | A new breed of ACT basketball star has arrived in the form of a pair of towering teenagers who are keen to follow in the footsteps of their idol, Canberra-born Australian point-guard Patrick Mill...
13/08/2008 | Canberra Capitals' unearth an unlikely star after holding public try-outs in a bid to finalise the playing roster.
8/08/2008 | New Capitals recruit Chantella Perera knew after the World University Games in Thailand last year that she wanted to play under Carrie Graf again.
So it wasn't a hard decision to pack up and co...
1/08/2008 | A three-pointer on the buzzer from CJ Bruton and a monster game from Andrew Bogut carried the Boomers to an 81-78 victory over Angola to keep Australia on course for the final of the FIBA Diamond Bal...
1/08/2008 | For the past year Australian Institute of Sport basketballer Clint Steindl has been reading about his good friend and former teammate, Patrick Mills, and his rise to fame.
He watches him at the Beiji...
31/07/2008 | Australia defeated China and its superstar centre Yao Ming 67-55 in a fiery opening to the Boomers' campaign in a pre-Olympic tournament in Nanjing, China yesterday.
In a heated match marred by the ...
31/07/2008 | Opals superstar Lauren Jackson was adamant she would be right for Olympic duty despite missing Australia's series-clinching 85-62 victory over Brazil in the second women's basketball Test at the Sydne...
30/07/2008 | The new-look Australian men's basketball team will today commence the final stretch in its Olympic Games preparations with its opening match of the Diamond Ball tournament in Nanjing, China.
Aust...
30/07/2008 | Former Canberra Gunners coach Frank Arsego will have to wait a little longer to return to the National Basketball League after the league announced yesterday the Singapore Slingers would not be a pa...
29/07/2008 | The Australian Opals tuned up for the Beijing Games with a dominant 99-62 win over Olympic pool rival Brazil at the Wollongong Entertainment Centre last night.
In a rematch of the 2006 World Ch...
25/07/2008 | If you asked Patrick Mills whether he wanted the job telling NBA star Andrew Bogut what to do in 2006, he would have said ''no way''.
But with the Beijing Olympics just 14 days away, Canberra-born Mi...
24/07/2008 | Matt Nielsen has been rewarded for his remarkable commitment to the Australian men's basketball team by being named captain for next month's Beijing Olympic Games.
The European-based Nielsen, a fo...
23/07/2008 | Canberra Capitals recruit Michelle Musselwhite may be still unpacking boxes at her new home, but coach Carrie Graf said her arrival signalled the start of a new era for the WNBL club.
''Goosebumps''...