How about on the west coast?

wouldn't expect a time change in the west as it would go head to head with the BBL final (that has a WA team) - on the same network.

It sayz 8.30, big bash starts 4.30pm wa time, it should be done by then + i think the final is on ten not on one.

I'm actually starting to believe the anti-NBL conspiracy theories regarding Ten. Adamantly bargaining for the NBL to be broadcasted delayed on it's tertiary channel... except when Ten's primary channel will dominate viewership on the east coast at a conflicting time period.

Cool beans.

What pisses me off is that the big bash is on ch 10 & on ch One at the same time ! Why cant they just have it on one of them & show the Wildcats on the other one ?? Considering Perth/WA is one of the biggest tv market for NBL !!

Not having them clash in Perth isn't a terrible idea. They could have run them consecutively, though.

It's actually quite a big night for the league.

Hopefully Ennis throws down some monsters on live national TV.

If anyone thinks for a second that anyone who isnt a die hard NBL fan will be tuning in to the NBL over the BBL is kidding themselves. Im a pretty die hard Basketball fan and I will most likely be watching the cricket my self!

Guess ure not a die hard? Wouldnt care whats on, il watch the nbl over the nba!

I'd watch any basketball over cricket.

At least with the rise of Big Bash, the NBL no longer has the worst uniforms in Australian sports...

I think the NBL has to be very careful with this commentary team.

I honestly have no problem with Carfino and his flair for the dramatic and hyperbole: it's needed in a commentator in order to pump up the big moments. And Van Gronigan is at least as knowledgeable as any other caller we have in this league (the competition is not exactly fierce)...

But having two American commentators is probably going to turn a lot of fence sitting Australians off, wouldn't you say?

Gaze wouldn't normally go up to Townsville anyway would he? I thought JVG was the 2nd commentator for games in Cairns and Townsville. Its still a bit odd that they would take him away from his commentating duties to be a part of the cricket at the exact same time as he would be needed to call a basketball game if indeed he was meant to be calling the game in Townsville.

I also find it a odd that Ten (probably) paid for Gaze to fly over to Perth to be the celebrity gimmick guy for the BBL, but they would never fly him over to Perth to actually commentate a Wildcats game for the NBL.

Yes, yes I know we have Lachy and Bear instead, but try and convince me that its not because of cost cutting reasons that Gaze and Carfino don't travel to Perth. Its Ten giving the NBL as little as possible as usual.

I'm usually a fan of JVG, but he was awful tonight. Threw to a commercial break for no reason after his interview with Shawn Dennis, claimed Ennis wasn't in the D-League because Miami couldn't afford the half a million it'd take to get him there, wanted Wagstaff to throw it to Ennis on the break despite Ennis being on the bench at the time...

Carfino was his usual terrible self. "I DON'T CARE THAT HE HIT HIM OVER THE HEAD. IT WAS UGLY, IT SHOULDN'T BE A FOUL." Shut up.

JVG also claimed last night Larry Bird was a vegan, which was not only irrelevant but entirely untrue.