Its not growing for young kids.
Why? parents turned off. 11 months of never ending games and tournaments on every long week end. There is life out there.

Sixers dont visit schools

Port Power visits my country school once every 2 years.

Crows visit my country school once every 3 years.

Sixers want money for visits,

kids have forgotten they exist, and they live in a world of dilusion.

A good point that the season is too long. The silly season does not seem to represent anything and everyone calls it crap, so why do we play it?
It's not a grading system like the Vics have so why do we have it? Maybe we would have more parents happier to be involved if we cut it some.
Lots of other issues around the travel all over the place and late at night which for juniors is a turn off to parents. Noralunga to gawler to Mt barker with 8.45 and 9.45 starts. Saturday nights and friday nights when you have 2 or 3 kids involved is a big ask.
Rationalize the program, play at a central venue all the time, reduce the number of clubs and raise the standard by rewarding clubs who have better programs and depth with the right to enter multiple Div 1 teams.
Sell off some of the stadiums and play at the Dome all day saturday for the juniors like netball does at ETSA park

Anon....If you raised the standard of the lower 5 every level would rise as there would be less easy games. Lots of the first teams have been beaten by their second teams over the years at various times and how hard is it to program all junior games over the day on Saturday to make it central?
Agreed pro/rel has been discussed ad nauseum but has pro/rel been tried lately or just dismissed? So change the rules on state players or move to another club, don't tell me you adhere to a non existant loyalty policy?
Don't know about your neighbourhood but I can't tell you one junior playing squash so I don't think you can compare that in costs.
You have admitted cricket and football are both cheaper because of council assistance, who's talking to councils about basketball's perspective from BSA?
Waiting lists in some clubs?? For hoops to hoops or entry level do you mean, cause it's certainly not for Div 1/2 players.
Humour me and tell me which sports basketball compares with favourably cost wise for juniors?Its not netball, cricket,soccer or football or tennis. You can play tennis across several divisions for substantially lower cost per season and guess what, more centrally.
Also tell me another junior sport that subsidises seniors playing? The argument of court hire and training more than seniors is in most cases not true. In cases where it is why dont clubs train on outside courts and/or use school courts ????
What is all this crud about accreditted coaches adding to costs? The number of teams at Norwood for example with mums and dads coaching them is larger than the number with coaches with level 2 coaching accreditation and its the same across the clubs.
Why not blame the sixers for not going to schools and the like to attract new players and doing it as part of their job. They have bled junior basketball dry over the last decade and returned sweet fanny adams to it with most so up themselves they know the colour of their stools.
The sixers have a debt to repay to juniors that demands they get out in the community and gratis if they want their sport to survive. But most want big bucks to coach and pretend to run clinic of huge and significant proportions during school holidays.
The fall of in girls playing bball is enormous and second string athletes and tall drinks of water play basketball. Time to market the game , run it better and involve the elite players in the resurrection

Same controlling body with different heads. In basketball parents get screwed because of the structure which is designed or was designed to raise money thru a silly or more correctly named fake season.
Its sole purpose is revenue. 10 weeks of crap that all div 1 or 2 players have to play to hold their spots. We all go along and pay our entry fees and to cover the refs and stadium hire for a season we don't want and pay the same club fees as the longer winter season.
Scrap it.

The only thing growing is the size of the kids playing it. Seems a preoccupation with height as evidenced by the young girl at SASI now. Lots of height yes but!

I just have to jump on #105422 about playing Junior District Basketball Centrally.
At the moment there are District games played on Thursday & Friday nights & Saturday mornings. To fit all the current district games into one 10 hour day, you would need approximately 20 courts.

I want to see that Venue(!!!), anywhere in Australia.

Even if you cut District back to only Division 1 & 2 you would still need 10 courts to play all games from U10-U18 in one day, that is scrapping U20/21 & making all games finish in 1 hour, playing from 8am through to 6pm. (U10/2 Boys & Girls at 8am - 10 games and so on, with U18/1 Boys & Girls at 5pm).
This assumes that all 10 clubs have a team in each grade, even if that number reduced to 8 you would still need 8 courts, still bigger than anything already in Adelaide.

At present you could use, say Wayville & The Dome which gives 6 courts, plus you would still need 4 more. (or 2 if team numbers reduce)

Also, try telling people from Southern, Centrals or Mavericks that travelling to the Dome every week is convenient & central.
That idea was so poorly thought out that I haven't even bothered to read the rest of your post.

#105526
Reading half a post would suit most with half a brain. Most of your assumptions are wrong about clubs. Centrallity means averaging distances for all. People at Southern might prefer travelling to the dome rather than Starplex, Wests at Port Adelaide the same rather than Mt Barker etc etc.(picture to follow for you #526).
Think laterally for a solution, use Wayville and the Dome plus Sundays for Div 2's but don't close off your mind to change, its self limiting.
Anon...you forgot to factor in entry for players and spectators which bumps it up double and more, most junior spots don't encounter those extras, netball excepted which charges entry for players and spectators significantly lower than bball and at least their venue is central reducing fuel costs.

basketball is too expensive.. Uniforms, cost to play and spectate, petrol to trainings and stadiums, court hire, shoes, club fees etc etc.

Football, netball, soccer, cricket and tennis are the main sports taking people away from basketball and they are all cheaper.

Dr Bullshit, In regards to cricket: $300 will get you an extremely good bat, you could get a decent bat for $180. You could also get decent not top of the range gloves and pads for cheaper than you quoted.

what is the cost each week to play? What is the travelling like compared to basketball (petrol costs)? What are the fees per season? How much does it cost for spectators to watch?

Cricket is cheaper than basketball.