So their starting 5 would be:

Randle
Lisch
Newley
Childress
Bogut


season is over

NBL needs to fix this lack of salary cap issue

Looks like the league is going to spend up BIG this season on marketing.

They would be stacked but also old and injury prone with Bogut approaching 34, Randle 31, Lisch 32, Newley 33, Kickert 35 and Childress 35.

If this is true I would be pretty disappointed in Childress.

So their starting 5 would be:

Randle
Lisch
Newley
Childress
Bogut


season is over

If he starts, I would imagine it would be at the SF,
But possibly been brought in as a bench option.

And WTF is it with Sydney and old men?

Why sign more old men in case your starting old men get injured?

Even if they make it that far, can you imagine this lot competing in a 5-game series?

How come? He was originally a King so it would be a nice homecoming for him.

Should have a "?" on topic title until confirmed.
I'm waiting to see Melbourne imports before jumping on Sydney for title favoritism.

"Whatever AD says ignore"

You do realise I chose my username as an homage to posters such as yourself.

The A is for Anonymous.
You can guess what the D is for

What is the deal with D2 and D2.0?

"Whatever AD says ignore"

You do realise I chose my username as an homage to posters such as yourself.

The A is for Anonymous.
You can guess what the D is for

Off-season is just like the european soccer teams these days. Top couple of teams spend shit loads to buy their success.

If Childress does sign then yes, Sydney are massively stacked.

But, they've also signed yet another guy who's on the wrong side of 30 and with recent major injuries.

If this team gets through the season healthy and unscathed then it'd be surprising.

What's Boti's current strike rate with calls on which players are going where?

Very mixed feelings with this if true... Would love to see Chill back in Sydney, have always said that it was the heavy load of having the carry the team and play max minutes that wore him down initially, but seriously... If he DOES sign, Sydney are REALLY taking the piss now... Like REALLY REALLY...

It would otherwise be a good move to have him splitting minutes with Newls and wouldn't be a let up at any stage of the game at that spot, getting the most of two older players... Watching Chill last week in the Big3, he's still got it, multiple blocks and a nice dunk... Outside of the context of having such a stacked team, he would definitely be a big asset, but jeez...

I love Boti, but this isn't happening. So everyone can cut the "WTF SYDNEY = GSW!!!" now and go back to hating Sydney for other reasons.

What salary cap?

Might as well rename the NBL the Melbourne & Sydney show.

If true would be the greatest starting 5 since the Kings last greatest starting 5....and we all saw how that went

This rumour has been quashed in a sydney paper. Does Boti literally just make stuff up?

It was tiny article in the print version. Basically said Childress wanted to go the Kings but that Kings are intent on only 2 imports.

Randle training with Childress in LA. Put that and the photos coming out about sydney getting started for the season.

Sees a training video of Randle with Childress playing D. Jumps the gun

I have no issue with Childress returning home (he's never felt like a 36er to me) and atleast he goes to them with a little bit of help now.

My issue is simply that when Sydney come to Perth it's already mid season so our perspective of how the season is going will be vastly different to now, they'll either be as dominant as others are fearful of being, full of injuries or Gaze will be hearing how his job is on the line almost every day... would have been nice to have them early

Boti's comment was "36ers fans who will lament the loss of Childress, now strongly expected to be a surprise final piece of the Sydney Kings 2018-19 puzzle."

I heard it was on the cards too, but not sealed.

Has he claimed it's a done deal anywhere else?

Olgun has one agent contact in the NBL. If a player isn't attached to that agent he has little going on. His housemate used to play for the Kings so he had the inside word on that team for a bit.

@SydneyKings coach Andrew Gaze says the team will not fill their third import spot & will search for a 3/4 Aussie to fill the role. Maybe Kendall Stephens lands here?

Sydney will need that spare import available for the inevitable injury to one of their older core players.
Stephens makes sense particularly if you can get him as a local certainly much better than Von Hoffe

Olgun says they're looking at Bose.

"@SydneyKings coach Andrew Gaze says the team will not fill their third import spot & will search for a 3/4 Aussie to fill the role."

So they're going to sign an import PG?

Talk about "Damaging your Legacy" :-(

Gaze should have just stayed retired as the NBL GOAT, and taken up selling real-estate or something.

Instead he's going to be remembered as the worst coach in the NBL. The guy who still couldn't win with a multi-million dollar star-studded line-up.

Olgun says they're looking at Bose.

Kolesnikov (Bose) has played for Khazakstan so I assume he would be signed as an Asian player.

There is no "Asian player" anymore.

Cheers Kober.

Koberulz - have they dropped the Asian player rule from last season? i.e., one player from an Asian country deemed to have a large potential audience for NBL treated as a non-restricted player.

Serious question.

Koberulz - have they dropped the Asian player rule from last season? i.e., one player from an Asian country deemed to have a large potential audience for NBL treated as a non-restricted player.

It's not just Asian players / countries.

Its more like from the NBL's exempted list of countries of which Guam is no longer in, which lead to the Tai Wesley issue (now resolved).

Bose was out here for at least one of the college v Sydney Kings invitational games last year. He looked terrible.

The original rule I think may have applied to Oceania only. That's the rule that allowed the Wildcats to sign Ross and U'U as locals.

IIRC it was changed around 2015 or 2016 to cover Oceania and Asia (as defined by FIBA, not by geography. So, for example, Lebanon is counted, but Turkey and Israel are treated as part of Europe.) But clubs were restricted

And yes, that is the rule under which Wesley played as a local.
Wesley continued to be covered as he was contracted when the rule was changed, but would have fallen foul when he came out of contract at the end of last season. Prompting the NBL to extend his coverage pending citizenship.

However that was changed for last season to be limited to specific countries. As mentioned, essentially those deemed by the NBL to be targets for developing cooperation. Last I heard those nations were: China, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan.
I'm sure that the NBL would consider adding others, such as Indonesia, if there was legitimate interest, but part of the change was to stop wide-open exploitation.
I'm also not sure how this new rule applies to dual-citizens? Eg, it would be interesting to know if Stephen Holt qualifies?