Not rated by other CEO's in the basketball community.Might look for a higher profile candidate.

NBL have released a "Statement from Larry Sengstock" with a few comments on his achievements and then:

Mr. Sengstock has declined to make any further media comment on his decision to resign.

Stepping down during the grand final series, seems a bit odd to me.

The Media release sounds very straight up and down and occurring during the GF series could be construed that he was pushed or something more to it, which may not be the case at all. Usually they have a quote when they leave on good terms, eg "I'd like to thank all the fans for their support over my time and I'll see you at the Kingdome". Agree Isaac, would love to see a media release with something like:

" Mr Smith was sacking immediately for having sex with his secretary in the photo copier room"

Sad to see him go. Thought he did a great job in helping rebuild this sport. Do you think it may have anything to do with the dodgy TV contract with One that led to his demise/resignation?

A push in the back is normally an unsportsmanlike foul.

Bob Brown to take over.

maybe julia gillard will want the job in a few months,ha ha

Found responsible for problems with new team bids? Wild guess. Certainly seems odd.

Want we don't need is someone from the US to come over and try and run the sport. Best that the NBL goes and recruits the person they want. Perhaps someone from the AFL or a high profile business identity. Also move BA back to Victoria the home of ball.

WOW.......i'm shocked...not sure where to start.

i'm sure there were issues with tv contracts/new teams bids etc, but.....
The NBL is a second/third tier Australian pro-sports programme that has a high number of its best(sometimes debatable) born and bred athletes/players not playing in it.(o/s)
it is basically a stepping stone/feeder league,which makes it a marketing nightmare.
we have smallish stadiums so even if you fill them you dont have a huge financial win because of cheap ticket prices etc, plus in many cases drinks and food profits go to the venue(in cairns anyway)
Happy Days-not rated by other basketball CEO'S??
might look for a higher profile CEO....crikey's,Larry is a legend among basketball people,the battles that guy endured as an under-sized center for the Australian Boomers all those years are still talked about.

i hope BA has a rock-solid plan this time..........or maybe Larry left on his own terms/mission, to get the Brisbane Bullets back in the NBL ???

is this for the goodification of basketball?

I met Larry a couple of times, watched him play a lot, coached against him, and I have the utmost respect for him as a person and player.

I am confident that he took on the role with the best intentions,and I think he has taken the sport to a much better place.

Why he is gone, I do not know, but I hope it is because there is a person/group who will take Australian Basketball to an even better level, particularly in terms of management across the board.

I think we still have a way to go to work out where we sit in the world of Basketball, and what are the best strategies to ensure we can make this sport a major rather than minor sport in Australia.

Face facts Oz basketball is slowly being swallowed up by other sports who took a more professional approach years ago. Marketing the product 20 years ago around TV like the NBA does would've given it a better chance.

Even the AFL started structuring LIVE broadcasts around TV.

Jim Henson might as well been running this muppet show!!

The key is the second-to-last paragraph. Look out for one of the new Chairman's mates to take on the role.

Isn't David Stern stepping down as NBA boss after this season?? Maybe he can come and turn it around!! lol

Has anyone heard what is happening with the proposed new NBL team?

Sengstock didn't really do much. Not disappointed to see him go.

You need someone with more fight in them who won't accept the status quo or spin bullshit.

Seriously BA needs a clean out. Anyone who has been there longer than 3 years needs to go. They have a few people in their in the top tier which are bad for the game. The ones underneath them should have brought this out by now and the fact they haven't unfortunately makes them tainted with the same brush.

The same should have happened in SA 20 years ago and it didn't, we went belly up as a result.

Time for some younger new blood in BA/NBL. No more former players, please!

Also need people with proper experience dealing with big companies. Doesn't appear like the current mob have any idea what they are doing in that regard.

Rumors going around the basketball courts today.

1) Drewey will be new CEO (I say doubtful)

2) Larry let go due to giving his mates the 2nd Melb NBL team without giving the other groups a fair go or correct due diligence done on the group that got the rights. The deadline for new teams has well and truly passed.

3) Larry involved financially with the new Melb team so obviously a conflict in itself so he did the right thing and stepped down accordingly and if true raises so many more questions about the whole process.

Not sure on the validity of any of it but that's some of the things out there today.

Let's hope they go for a businessmen.

If Sengstock was gonna get involved financially wouldnt it be with Brissy?

Knox was the place to be tonight. Apparently Larry has been there the last two days so one assumes its to do with the new team.

The comments here as a group show how much posters do not understand the structure of the game in Australia.

For a start, the NBL is not BA. The NBL might be a window to the sport but it is not the game. The game remains in strong shape in many many respects - participation, international standing, player development etc etc. The game is thriving in Vic, WA and Qld reportedly, struggling in NSW and holding its own elsewhere. AND BA have very little say in state strategies - in fact, almost none.

LS has been under significant scrutiny for some time by many people in the sport - the states, who control the majority of the vote, have been very dissatisfied according to many.

Scott Derwin has been appointed in an interim role. People bagging him here need to validate what he did so poorly in the past - remember, in his time, he never controlled the NBL - it was a distinctly different organisation - and it is the NBL that has been seen to be the basket case for so long.

Derwin oversaw the Unification of BA and the NBL and then resigned - that unification was a major achievement - 30 years in the making. BTW, Derwin and Landon were "running the show" when we won our world championship in 2006 - possibly the best thing to happen in the past decade.

Speculating that Keneally wants the job or that this is about the Melbourne/Brisbane team is just that, speculation. For a start, for Keneally to take the chair, then manipulate herself into being CEO by sacking the incumbent, would be the worst way to take the position. If that was her plan, then she could have played this very differently.

My understanding is that another senior staffer was let go recently... the BA marketing guy?

Finally, temerity, the BA office is in Victoria. Larry moved it down. And it was never in Victoria previously so that you could "move it back" to Vic.

Scott Derwin advised the first set of Administrators for the cannons that the Canberra NBL licence was only worth about $15,000, so $20,000 was a great price for the adminitrators to sell the license to the Newcastle Hunters group for - so that's what they did.

When this came out at the first creditors meeting,and the actual figures of the previoust 2 commercial transfers of NBL licenses were given to them ( all in six figures), then that set of administrators actually spent 30mins trying to convince the ATO representative to vote AGAINST them continuing in the administrator's role - totally oblivious to the fact that ATO policy was inflexible on that matter.

So when the votes were cast and it was clear that on the basis of the money owed to the ATO ( essentially creditors' total votes were completely proportional to moneys owed to that creditor)- they were to be reappointed - they actually refused to continue in that role - the first time in Australian corporate living memory where that had happened .

It was very plain that that set of auditors saw just how much trouble they were in from taking advice from people like Derwin, - and just wanted out at any cost.

Have very little time for Derwin, In my opinion he has done little inside basketball except take a salary, and had and has done even less outside it.

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I said Landon and Derwin were at the helm when we won the world champs. They had overseen the period from the Olympics to the 2006 world champs in terms of national teams and high performance. I am not sure how they cannot be seen to be involved in the success of 2006, given they were making policy, they appointed Stirling, etc etc. You cannot just say it was a fluke, and you cannot just say it was the coaches and the team. Team's don't normally win in spite of a shite administration, they normally los ebecause of one - I think you give credit where it is due and you would have to saying the Derwin/Landon administration was a positive one for the Opals in this period.

BTW, likewise, Derwin needs to take some responsibility for the Boomers failing in 2001.

Perhaps you are confusing the NBL, WNBL and ABA offices which were all in Melbourne? The WNBL from memory moved up around 2002, along with the ABA. The NBL was in Melbourne for some time after that.

But, for the entire history of the NBL, starting in 1979, the BA offices were in Sydney, and to my knowledge, was never in Melbourne until Larry moved it down - it has been quite a Sydney institution.

Seen it all, that was when the NBL was completely separately run - why would Derwin be involved giving the Cannons advice? We are talking 2002/3 here - decisions and advice like that sat at that period with either Peter Ali or Rick Burton...unless I have my administrators out of order... and Derwin never ran the NBL.

Knox Knox Knox - becoming a much used word !

HO
A few hours ago
17:37 15 Apr 12

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re: Sengstock resigns as BA CEO

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Seen it all, that was when the NBL was completely separately run - why would Derwin be involved giving the Cannons advice? We are talking 2002/3 here - decisions and advice like that sat at that period with either Peter Ali or Rick Burton...unless I have my administrators out of order... and Derwin never ran the NBL.

You have it EXACTLY right - There was absolutely NO reason why Derwin should have made it his business to give advise such as that .. or to have spent as much time as he did on closing down the cannons and moving the license to Newcastle ... but as the CEO of BA he decided to undervalue the license for reasons that were unable to be explained by the receivers who were first put in charge of the administration of the Cannons -

I'd spend many many months having some first hand experience of Derwin, and I'm more than a little concerned that he's back "in charge" - even if it is only "temporary" .

By the way Burton was the nbl commissioner from July 2003 to August 2007 - and this was happening in jan-march 2003.

word has it brookhouse will be the new man ??????????