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    The Illawarra Hawks have issued an ominous warning to the rest of the Australian basketball league by trouncing top-ranked Melbourne United 106-93 on their home court and replacing them at the top of the NBL ladder

    The Illawarra Hawks have issued an ominous warning to the rest of the Australian basketball league by trouncing top-ranked Melbourne United 106-93 on their home court and replacing them at the top of the NBL ladder


    New Zealand has made the largest jump in the latest FIBA basketball world rankings for boys...rocketing up 12 spots to 15th - thanks to the historic fourth place at the FIBA Under-17 World Cup and a second place at the Under-18 Asia Cup.

    BASKETBALL WITH BK's NEW KOREAN FRIED CHICKEN.  WHERE HEAT MEETS SWEET.

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     Other Basketball News
     21 Dec: Leaders Adelaide have survived a scare to rack up an eighth win in nine games in basketball's NBL
     20 Dec: Coach Petteri Koponen is confident the Breakers can pick themselves up after a four-point NBL basketball loss to the bottom-placed Taipans in Cairns
     19 Dec: Breakers forward Rob Baker the Second believes avoiding a losing slide is paramount when they face the bottom-placed Cairns Taipans tonight
     19 Dec: New Zealand Breakers behemoth Rob Baker the Second is enjoying his basketball in Auckland
     14 Dec: New York and San Antonio are through to the NBA Cup final
     14 Dec: The Tauranga Whai have defended their Tauihi national women's basketball league title with a resounding 93-66 win over the Mainland Pouakai in the final in Christchurch
     14 Dec: Breakers coach Petteri Koponen believes the referees granted the South East Melbourne Phoenix to play with an uber-physical style in their clash in basketball's NBL
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