The Australian men's basketball team will feature in next year's World Cup after a comfortable 29-point win over Iran in Melbourne ensured qualification.
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Brisbane Bullets basketballer busted bringing bulldog in carry-on baggage
Customs officials seize a pet French bulldog belonging to new Brisbane Bullets import Lamar Patterson after he attempted to bring the animal into Australia in his hand luggage.
Women’s sport is booming, but so too is the rate of serious knee injuries
Women playing elite sport are up to 10 times more likely than men to rupture their anterior cruciate ligament, but according to a surgeon who performs about 300 knee reconstructions per year, the vast majority of those injuries can be avoided.
Cambage lifts Opals past Spain to women’s World Cup final
Another talismanic performance from Liz Cambage leads the Australian Opals to a World Cup basketball final meeting with the USA after recording a 72-66 victory over tournament hosts Spain.
Trump insults basketball star LeBron James
President Donald Trump turns his wrath on basketball star LeBron James, questioning his intelligence after James was interviewed by CNN anchor Don Lemon, who Trump also called "the dumbest man on television".
Basketball Australia rules out appealing Boomers’ ‘basketbrawl’ penalties
Basketball Australia will not appeal the sanctions stemming from the Boomers' ugly brawl with the Philippines in their World Cup qualifier in Manila this month.
Boomers sanctions labelled a ‘disgrace’ as Maker pleads self-defence
The sanctions issued to Boomers players have been labelled a 'disgrace' by agent Daniel Moldovan as Thon Maker hits out at his three-game suspension.
Three Boomers suspended for Philippines ‘basket-brawl’, Basketball Australia fined
Boomers trio Daniel Kickert, Thon Maker and Chris Goulding are suspended for their role in the sickening brawl with the Philippines, while Basketball Australia is heavily fined.
‘We play like fierce women’: Cambage hits out at WNBA’s ‘ladylike’ suppression of emotion
Liz Cambage blasts the WNBA for its treatment of female players while defending Thon Maker for his role in the Boomers-Philippines melee.
Cambage slays doubters with record-breaking 53-point tally in WNBA win
Australia's Liz Cambage says plenty doubted she'd ever get "big numbers" in America's WNBA competition. So she's only gone and broken the points-scoring record in a stunning display for the Dallas Wings.