A fan campaign to build interest in bringing professional NBL and WNBL basketball back to the Newcastle region. We started it. We want back in. Newy's got next!
Part serious campaign, part design exercise, all basketball.
20/07/2023
Newy wants next: Proud basketball region is planning NBL revival A renewed push for Newcastle basketball to rejoin the NBL and WNBL is gaining momentum amid nationwide talks of further growth in basketball in Australia.
22/03/2023
Great to see some movement happening on a new home for Newcastle Basketball.
2000 seats for the show court seems a little small, but I guess that ultimately doesn’t matter if the rumoured new Entertainment Centre goes ahead.
“Newcastle Basketball, City of Newcastle and the State Member for Lake Macquarie Greg Piper have today announced a new $30 million basketball stadium will be built in Newcastle.
The NSW Government will fund the construction of the regional level, indoor basketball facility in Newcastle after committing an additional $5 million to a previous $25 million commitment for what was then intended to be a new stadium on Hillsborough Road, Charlestown.
An artist's impression of Newcastle Basketball's proposed new basketball stadium.
The new facility will be built on a Crown Land site managed by City of Newcastle opposite McDonald Jones Stadium in Broadmeadow. The 12-court stadium will be built in two stages; stage one seeing the construction of up to eight courts, and stage two including a show court for 2,000 spectators.”
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24/12/2022
Hoopy Xmas everyone! 🌲🏀 And good luck to Kouat and the Kings as they take on Melbourne United tomorrow night in the NBL’s first ever Christmas game.
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02/12/2022
Newcastle enters its name into the NBL expansion conversation - Aussie Hoopla A proposed 11,000-seat entertainment centre is nearing approval in Newcastle, and with it, a chance of bringing more international netball to the region and the return of an NBL team. The Newcastle Herald reported on Saturday that Venues NSW had completed a business case for the state government rec...
25/11/2022
How great does this look? With a venue like this there is no way the NBL (and WNBL, and Super Netball) could say no to expanding here. LFG!
I’d love to see the video but it’s currently behind a paywall (boo), hopefully Venues NSW release it wider soon!
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19/10/2022
Women's sports are the startups of a big, corporate sports world | WNBL The 2022 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup ended last month with a predictable turn. Team USA came and won gold. Australia fell two points short of facing the Americans in the championship decider. While the Opals left following their semi-final defeat, they departed Sydney with a bronze medal, an...
15/10/2022
commissioner spoke to The Dribble Podcast about future expansion, and while convo was more in relation to a possible 2nd Perth side (it is a WA-based podcast after all), we obviously think Newy needs to be in this conversation...
05/10/2022
Is the Wembanyama hype real? A quick bit of Photoshop fun while I watched the Metros92 v G-League Ignite replay last night.
01/10/2022
EPIC Opals farewell game for the GOAT, goes out a winner with a World Cup Bronze Medal. Goosebumps. So good.
30/09/2022
😢 A tough loss for the Opals in a tight semi-final, with China just holding on thanks to some late free-throws. They'll be back up against Canada for Bronze tomorrow.
29/09/2022
Cayla gets buckets and boards off the bench as the Opals get the win over Belgium to advance to the semi-finals where they'll take on China tomorrow night. Let's go.
27/09/2022
The Opals get the win and finish top of their group! Another great game from Marianna Tolo with 14 points and 6 rebounds, with 15 from Sami and 10 from Ezi. Onto the quarters!