Fantastic value as a local, run of the mill value as an import.

Regardless of his nationality, he was welcomed to the NBL as a local and moved his family over. To tell him now he must play as an import is disgraceful.

Grown man moves. He has a family to feed. 17 kids. At least he's playing like it

Wesley actually only has one son, but I've heard that the little guy takes really long showers, never turns the lights off when he leaves a room, and has a tapeworm.

Wesley isn't an Aussie or a Kiwi. He shouldn’t have ever been allowed to play in the NBL as a local. He has a Guam passport and was signed by the Breakers after Basketball Australia said that they wanted more reach into the Oceania region.

There are a couple of other players this rule effects but the NBL is looking the other way on those.

Who are the others?

Remember Ernest Ross? Another grown man

Never should of allowed it to occur in the first place but as long as the rule is clear and made known early enough i'm sure Tai will find another gig.

Can't have a rule for a few and not everyone just because they are already in the league and they are a nice person.

If Tai was an import he certainly is better than a large number of other imports who have graced our league this year!

Cooke Jr, Tyler, Smooch, Evens, Egwu, Johnson.

Hopefully they make the Indian guys imports to thou as that would seem unfair as those blokes are taking the spots of young aussies who should be on the rosters.

Is this reclassification thing taking the piss or have I just not paid attention to something legit?

He is married with a kid here in Australia (Australian wife I think). Has been around a while now. I don't think he'd be too far off becoming an Australian.

*He should probably hang around and play SEABL instead of taking off to the NZNBL every year.

*I would love to see him play in the SEABL. I think he'd dominate.

100%. I'm telling you right now, Tai Wesley is a grown man. He's married with a wife and 5 children to feed.

He's balling out. The more grown man in existence.

Grown Man Tai Wesley. 100%

Tai would get at least one more multi-year contract as an import, IMO. Known quality, and having a hell of a season.

Better than any Cairns import.
Better than Cooke Jr.

Haven't seen his games, but agree he'd get a gig as an import given his proven abilities. A few teams could make use of him.

Since when is the Oceania rule not a rule anymore? Or did we just swap it for the Asia rule?

I agree that he'd get a job as an import for sure, and based on his play this season especially, would have preferred him over Ellis at the Kings for sure...

He moved his family here and is a nice bloke isn't an argument as plenty of other import have come out with their families and they all seemed like nice people!

Once this contract is done he'll be an import!

The Asian rule is terrible and doesn't help our league or Aussie players trying to get jobs when we pick these Asian player who aren;t up to it

Melbounre could be torn here.

He has reveled in Vickermans system this year, although he's been in foul trouble the last two games.

United would have to give up there import 3 man spot and hope to sign an Aussie.

And no Moller isn't the answer.

You cant drop Prather or Felix and expect to have the same production.

A Mitch Creek type would be perfect but there ain't many of them around.

I think it'd be fair if the rule was grandfathered for existing players.

I'm not suggesting it's completely unreasonable, though.

Moller can start at 3 and Utd can use an import spot on him. He's earnt it. And United can put excess $ into getting more quality Aussies.

WookieE - yes Asia rule replaced Oceania rule

However, from what I've read, the Asia rule is restricted to selected countries. The countries concerned are decided based on potential tv audience. That was the description provided in an article about Wesley's situation, a couple of months ago. Sorry, don't have a reference and can't recall where it was published.

So Singh (India) was covered by the Asia rule but Wesley (Guam) was not. Wesley and Melbourne were given a year's grace to see out the second year of his pre-existing contract.

Ah ok, thanks... Well, if they were made aware of it and the rules have changed, not much they can do... Obviously no problem with him seeing his contract out under those circumstances, but things have changed... It's just a bonus that United are the ones being disadvantaged this time...

How about the Kings swap Singh for him? Sounds fair... Do it like the NRL and take them now to see out the season...

There's no Asia rule either, just a list of countries the NBL thinks could benefit the league with media attention. India's on the list, Guam isn't.

I've been as critical of Tai in the past as anyone, but hard to say he's not playing winning basketball so far this year given he's often been the best player on the #1 team in the competition. His passing has been better, sure, but it's his defense that was his biggest issue in the past. He's not a lockdown defender now or anything, but he isn't glaringly bad like he was in past seasons.