Might help if they had some more corporate cash

definately would be a lot of players interested in playing! Could probably even get Gibbo and Mat Knight back to play for us! Would be awesome for bball in Tasmania!

They've had a bid for about 3-4 years now but I don't think BA was interested. I haven't heard anything about this new bid however.

I assume bid = semi-formal interest/enquiries.

NBL will never happen in Tasmania! There's way to many idiots on the board of Basketball Tasmania! Also, as shown in the J Schueller thread there's a lot of people who probably can't even play the sport that will do whatever they can to shut down anything that they don't agree with!

Basketball in Tasmania is gone, time to cut it off from the rest of Australia before it drags us all down with it!

Tassy Govt can't be too broke. It seemed easy enough to find $33,000,000 for Stadium redevelopments at Blundstone to cater for AFL ( Nth Melb ) and Cricket.

Maybe the Tassy people looking at Facility developments need to go with the Libs

Whats wrong with the Derwent stadium? Not that old and a 5k plus capacity

Ah, that explains it, what a waste of what looks like a nice venue

Plus two of the three regions in the state will go up in arms that is in the wrong place and not support it at all.

@436996

$15,000,000 of State funds would just about set up a 4 Court with show court facility in Southern Tasmania to replace the outdated Moonah and Clarence facilities.

This would cater for about 7000 users on a weekly basis and provide opportunities for National Events which have had to be passed up because of a lack of suitable Indoor Facilities

Surely 7000 plus more for Intra & Interstate events actually participating on a weekly basis to help reduce health problems would be a better community spend than a whole lot of seats to sit beer swilling pie eating football supporters on about 4 occassions a year.

Roll on the elections and we might just get someone interested in actually helping Basketball to achieve the objectives of NBL and Young people being active in a Multipurpose facility

This seems to be a very touchy subject, as there r lots of basketball fans in Tasmania, but I don't think the NBL cares or even thinks about Tasmania.
The NBL is focused on the major cities and thinking about the big picture, it cant be called the NBL. The Tasmanian Government r hopeless with supporting these kind of projects. There would be some big name people who would support a Tasmanian team back in the NBL. I hope it can happen we could deffinatly get a group of people to financially back it.

Surely NBL team aspirations and new Facilities go hand in hand. The DEC is not an option. The cost to hire this was approx $16,000 per night way back in 1996 so god knows what the costs are now.

Run with Julian Burnside's idea to process asylum seekers in Tasmania. $500m/yr into the economy from refugee welfare while being processed. $1b/yr incentive payment to Tasmania as a state. Australia saves $2.5b/yr on current offshore processing.

Then get them all hooked on basketball. Free season tickets even. A new stadium or two would be peanuts within that $1b/yr. Influx of Sudanese and Tasmanian basketball would boom.

Optional extra: grab some of those $2.5b/yr savings to prop up the NBL.

Sorted!