Friday, August 7, 2009

The NBL has a plan ...

... finally! It's nice to see things heading in the right direction, although it is way to early to get excited.

He may cop a bit of criticism, but if you have a few minutes here's a really interesting article from Boti Nagy. Click on the title to read the full story and hear all about Basketball Australia's CEO Larry Sengstock's plan for the league.

AdelaideNow... NBL courts national support

BOTI NAGY
August 06, 2009

LARRY Sengstock is used to battling impossible odds and coming out with a surprise positive result.

Back when the 201cm Hall of Fame and Olympic legend with the flowing blonde hair and appearance of a surfer boy was butting his head into the chest of the Soviet Union's 220cm Vladimir Tkatchenko, he already was showing a spirit first embodied by the Anzacs.


Since ascending the sport's loftiest job as Basketball Australia's chief executive officer in April, Sengstock has averted a crisis and saved the NBL, is reshaping it to a new sustainable vision and meeting the game's critics head-on.



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