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When is a game at your usual stadium not a home game?

When is a game at your usual stadium not a home game?

24 May 2024

It seems it's if it's part of the new "Hoops Fest" that's just been announced, to tip off the Aussie basketball league.

Perth will host the additional full round to kick off the season in September... at the Wildcats' arena.

Basketball Australia CEO Matt Scriven has stretched himself as wide as he could to deny it's going to help out the home team.

And the Boston Celtics have gone up two-nil in the NBA's Eastern Conference finals, seeing off the Indiana Pacers 126 to 110 in Boston.

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03 Dec: Izayah Le'afa unknowingly played through a stress fractured foot in the Tall Blacks basketball World Cup qualifier loss to Australia in Wellington

03 Dec: Kiwi guard Tai Webster's returned for a third Australian Basketball League stint with the Breakers

02 Dec: Australia have completed a clean sweep of the Tall Blacks in their two basketball World Cup qualification games

29 Nov: A glass half full mindset for the Tall Blacks basketballers after letting a chance slip for a rare victory over their Australian counterparts

25 Nov: Breakers development player Tukaha Cooper has copped a one-month ban from basketball after testing positive for cannabis

25 Nov: Max Darling will miss the Tall Blacks' basketball World Cup Qualifiers against the Australian Boomers with concussion

23 Nov: American import Izaiah Brockington doesn't think the Breakers are as bad as this season's Australian NBL record suggests

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