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Originally posted by kisstherim!
so looks basketball is not so popular in ur country. but to my knowledge,Audrey Gates in ur national bball team used to be great,has him retired already?
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Australian Rules Football is definetly the biggest sport here. Well for the Southern States like Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia anyways. Cricket is pretty big in the summer also.
Unfortunatly Basketball isnt as big here and hasnt been really since Michael Jordan retired in the late 90's. There are plenty of die hards who keep upto date via the net and we do get a few games on Foxtel (Pay TV) but nowhere near enough.
As for our league the National Basketball League (NBL) i actually work for the Adelaide 36ers and love it. The NBL is slowly on the rise but still a long way off. We only have a salary cap of like $770,000 per team so its pretty hard to attract really good players. Just basically have the best Australian players with a few imports that are trying to boost there stats for Returns to the US or even Europe.