Sporting history doesn't care about feelings, rather who has the title on the trophy :)

Sydney fans wanted to be awarded the trophy based on ladder position and to not play a final series - sorry to say you have to actually win it on the court. Being top of the ladder throughout history of most sport guarantees nothing in a finals series.

A combination of injury, old age, lack of finals experience probably worked against Sydney whereas Perth had experience and resilience in bunches.

If your main stars like Casper go missing at the crunch time of a final its a quick path to losing.

Imagine making yourself into a club more hated than Perth in the space of two short years.

I feel for the Sydney players that wanted to play on, from what I heard it was the majority.

Weren't they going to continue on without imports? I wonder who talked them out of that.....

It's not like Smith had any prior history of spitting the dummy after losing to Perth....well, except for Indigenous Round.

Smith is an absolute disgrace as an owner and makes me ashamed to be a Kings fan. Shit stirring or not, this kind of petty whining is beneath contempt. From the Indigenous round fiasco to this - he just needs to shut the hell up.

Smith like many other owners is ready to leave the NBL.....this league is in trouble under the current head office leadership.

If the league owner cared about actual basketball he'd create a commission so the league would be run independently with say from the clubs on the commission like pretty much every other PRO sports league with club owners does however he only wants to tear cash out of the league and clubs.

How is the league in trouble?

Bye Mr Smith, don't let the door hit you in the way out. Also don’t forget to drop your keys off for your WNBL side whilst you’re at it.

He isn’t going anywhere.

The league can't afford to lose people like Smith, he’s a quality businessman and knows his shit. We don’t need owners like the hawks have ended up with, depending on who you talk to but up to 80% owned by the league. They could not get bums on seats till they reinstated Illawarra name and then I’m guessing a lot freebies. Yes the kings should have played it out, even if it meant without imports or next stars. They would have lost but had a go.

Illawarra is a very parochial area, like Cairns and most country type regions, let’s hope they don’t make the same mistake at Tasmania.

He might be a good businessmam but his ego is far too big and he's not doing himself or the league any favours with his repeated displays of bad sportsmanship.

You have to take the good with the bad, as the nfl said, there is no such thing as bad publicity.

Its such a dumb argument by Smith and Kings people

Yes its not perfect

But given the season was over 90% complete its stupid to have no champion

Out of what was completed Perth were on top, so are deserved winners.

Also remember, the NBL didn't cancel the games the Kings forfeited.

I also guarantee if the Kings were leading and rewarded the championship he wouldnt have said no and would have claimed it.

Such a sore loser mentality.

I am sure Smith is deliberately conflating a decision from the league determining the series couldn't be completed safely, with his own decision to forfeit. A number of options were offered to him to continue the series safely, he chose not to take them up, flew his team back to Sydney, then forfeited after losing game 3. There is no reason why the league should have declared no winner.

Actually when you spell it out like that, he isn't a very good businessman at all.

Businessman gambles, he lost this one. Should have played it out but thought his 4 aces were unbeatable but the royal flush got him.

A few owners aren't happy so watch this space....

Getting Owners to pony up and loose money year on year is tough but finding new owners in the current environment with money to throw away will be even tougher.

Like it or not a number the owners a very unhappy with the League office which to be frank hasn't delivered on a TV deal or any sort of major growth like they promised.

Either the League office sells tot he owners of the clubs or the CEO makes way

#847 you're a fool

The current NBL head office claim to fame is LaMelo who they didn't even get into the league..they talked up clicks and views but what was the result?

The league is arguable going backwards in terms of exposure and care factor...see ticket sales for the NBL cup as the prime example!

You're really going to use nbl cup ticket sales?