Spirit in crisis meeting with NBL

I stumbled across this. Sydney teams always seem to struggle just as they're starting to put it together on the court. One minute the Kings are in the grand final with a chance to win the championship, the next they no longer exist. The Spirit start to play well on-court (they just lost by 2 to the Crocs tonight) but that may not matter. Click on the title below to read the rest of the story.

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Spirit in crisis meeting with NBL

By Tim Morrissey
October 20, 2008

NBL boss Chuck Harmison will hold a crisis meeting with the Spirit this week to address the alarming lack of support for Sydney's only basketball team, which is heading for a $1 million loss.

The Spirit reportedly lost around $800,000 last season when they were called the West Sydney Razorbacks. However, since rebranding themselves following the demise of the Sydney Kings all they've achieved is alienation from the majority of fans from both organisations.

That was highlighted by a dismal crowd of 1,476 at the Spirit's showcase game against Brian Goorjian's new club, the South Dragons, at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. By contrast the Dragons' showdown against the Tigers, who were backing up the next night, attracted the biggest crowd of the season with 9,308 people attending the local Melbourne derby.


An example of how "legit" the NBL is about the Spirit, I was grabbing the logo below from the NBL website and the link is actually to razorbacks.com.au (which of course no longer exists). I guess its not easy for the league office to keep up with all the changes.