He also owns Adelaide Giants in baseball. What else doesn't he own.

Haha, Sydney Kings are owned by "Hoops Capital Pty Ltd"

The "Hoops Capital" that hasn't even had a team for all of the NBL's existence. The "hoops capital" where championships are few and far between, and where champion boomers are few and far between

Victoria, meanwhile, has been home of roughly 40% of NBL title winners - plus legendary Aussie ballers like Gaze, Bogut, Heal, Delly and Anstey

Good effort though. It's a solid marketing ploy that appeals to the mindset of Sydneysiders, who, shall we say, like to think well of themselves

The rest of us can laugh about it

Huh? This is an Adelaide thread.

The "Hoops Capital" that hasn't even had a team for all of the NBL's existence.

PW, just something I noticed from the article linked above

"Prior to the 21-22 season the Sydney Flames transitioned from Sydney University to Hoops Capital Pty Ltd, a multi-faceted basketball enterprise and owner of the Sydney Kings"

[So Illawarra is the Hoops Capital now?]

There has been a team/teams in Melbourne the whole time

Melbourne the city is the Hoops and NBL Capital. We all know that

It's good marketing though. Arguably better marketing than United's "go hard to go to Sydney"

PW, just something I noticed from the article linked above

There has been a team/teams in Melbourne the whole time

[Far more teams based out of Melbourne have failed, than have teams based out of Sydney.]

And far more teams in Melbourne have achieved success. Hence why Melbourne is the Hoops and NBL capital

That success has been on the court, and sometimes off the court too

38 straight years of United and their legacy franchise the Tigers is a pretty good run

23 out off 44 NBL seasons have had a Victorian team in the GF. Victoria is undoubtedly the home of the NBL

"23 out off 44 NBL seasons have had a Victorian team in the GF. "

I wouldn't get too carried away with that stat as an indicator of Victorian teams' excellence per se. It's probably a better indicator of numbers of Victorian teams participating over the life of the NBL.

There were quite a few years where the chance of randomly getting at least one Victorian team in the GF were better than 50%. e.g., in 1987 there were 5 Victorian teams in a 14 team league. That meant there were 91 possible GF match-ups, 55 of which (~60%) include at least one of the 5 Victorian teams. Nevertheless, no Victorian teams even made it to semi-finals that year, let alone the GF.

I haven't run the numbers for all of the 44 seasons but I reckon they'd land around expecting to have seen 15-20 of those years with at least one Victorian team in the GF, just based on numbers of Victorians teams participating.

Yes PeterJohn, and the sheer number of teams too supports my comment that Victoria is the home of the NBL and Melbourne is the Hoops Capital

You can see though that Victorian teams typically are quite successful because if you look over the past 30 years or so, since the early 90's (ignoring the complexities of so many 80's teams)

The main two threads have been

Tigers/United- very successful- made playoffs in all but 6 or 7 seasons. 6 titles, 5 runner ups

North Melbourne Giants/South East merged into Vic Titans. South Dragons for 3 years, SEM for 3 years- all successful franchises in their own right- North Melbourne a title from 2 GF's and perennial finalists. Magic 2 titles from 4 GFs in the 90s. Vic Titans made finals every year I think? Dragons won a title in their 3rd season

SEM is letting the city down a bit....but otherwise those clubs were all powerhouses of the competition

So yeah, undoubtedly Melbourne teams have batted above the average in terms of success over the last 30 odd years.

My 1980's knowledge isn't as strong but the records show many Vic teams winning titles and playing in GFs

Oh and yes I forgot the reincarnation of the Giants which lasted 2 sorry seasons- but again, most of the Melbourne franchises have been successful

It's nice to see so much conversation in a WNBL thread

Unfortunately Melbourne hasn't been quite as successful in the women's

Was the Dandenong Rangers to Southside Flyers rebrand as controversial as the Tigers?

WTF has this thread got to do with Melbourne? You Vics and your constant chest-beating it's unreal.

I was commenting on something from the article above- Sydney Flames and Sydney Kings are owned by "Hoops Capital Pty Ltd"

Chest beating about our respective cities is probably more interesting than the ownership of the Adelaide Lightning, to be honest, but feel free to redirect to something more directly on the topic of the OP

Its the name of a holding company, how are you getting so worked up about something so mundane?

Pretty sure its also written on the court? And/or used in marketing.

Like I said though, I have no problem with it, as marketing goes

It appeals to the Sydney mindset

United were struggling to get 4000 to playoff games. I'm not sure you can really call them the hoops capital.

I'll continue blaming AFL for that until it's proven otherwise

NBL23 crowds will be better with the nbl starting up in October.

Was the Dandenong Rangers to Southside Flyers rebrand as controversial as the Tigers?

Pelligra also own South Melbourne Football (soccer) club and will take control of Adelaide United after this A League season finishes. He also mentioned in the interview that he hopes to own the 36ers as well.
Considering he own the Adelaide 36ers Arena, if he does end up as 36ers owner, the Lightning would probably end up back there playing games instead of the soon to be constructed State Basketball Centre.