Josh Childress is currently tearing up the NBL (Aus league)

[Lebron23]

Australia is the 11th best basketball country in the world. They are a decent league.

[MiseryCityTexas]

Childress was decent in Atlanta and plus a lot of Australian talent is overseas.

Jason Terry was the Gawd in Atlanta also, but became a role player for the rest of his career afterwards. Really don't mean nothing to put up numbers for the shitty Atlanta Hawks of the early 2000s.

[outbreak]

Australia is the 11th best basketball country in the world. They are a decent league.

It's not terrible but it's not a big surprise that Childress is beasting in the NBL. Most teams best players are D-league calibre or mid level euro league calibre. The better Australians go play in europe over the NBL to make more money. It used to be a better league, they could make it higher calibre if they put more money in to it but the attendance and tv viewership just isn't there.

[RRR3]

Jason Terry was the Gawd in Atlanta also, but became a role player for the rest of his career afterwards. Really don't mean nothing to put up numbers for the shitty Atlanta Hawks of the early 2000s.

Wait, what?

Terry in Atlanta (outside of his rookie year when he only player 23 MPG)

20/3/5/1/0 on 44/40/85 in 38 MPG

19/4/6/2/0 on 43/39/84 in 38 MPG

17/3/7/2/0 on 43/37/89 in 38 MPG

17/4/5/2/0 on 42/35/83 in 37 MPG


Terry's best years statistically in Dallas

17/2/4/1/0 on 47/41/80 in 35 MPG

17/3/5/1/0 on 48/44/80 in 35 MPG

20/2/3/1/0 on 46/37/88 in 34 MPG

16/2/4/1/0 on 45/36/85 in 31 MPG


His role was different but dude was productive for a long time.

[CelticBaller]

like wilt in the 60s

[Euroleague]

Australia is the 11th best basketball country in the world. They are a decent league.

No they are not a "decent" league. The best by far player in the league, Jackson, was an absolute scrub in Europe's 2nd tier league.

It's pretty much as Wiggins said it is. It's a bit below leagues like Israel and Ukraine, which would be something like 15-20 ranked leagues in Europe.

So "decent", is a bit of a stretch.

Also a FIBA ranking for a national team has absolutely NOTHING to do with a national professional basketball league's level. Anyone with even a very rudimentary level of sports knowledge should know that.

Or are you saying that the NBA was worse than the Argentine league for about 4 years?

[Euroleague]

I take it back. NBL isn't even as good as I thought it was. I looked at the rosters of some of the 2nd Division Greek clubs and compared it to NBL teams.......

Doxa Lefkadas for example from Greek 2nd Division, is in 6th place in Greek 2nd league with a 5-4 record, and looking at their roster, and comparing it to rosters in NBL teams.........they probably would not lose a single game in NBL.

Yeah, NBL is really shit. It's actually far below a league like Israel, which is probably in 15-20 range in Europe.

[JohnFreeman]

Sydney v melbourne was a good game

[Milbuck]

This is really impressive to me. If he can dominate the NBL, he would be prime Jordan in Euroleague.

The way I see it he should go to Euroleague...why be a star in the NBL when you could be the GOAT of Euroleague? More money, more recognition. Yeah it might be a step down in level of competition, but it's not like you're not in the NBA, so nitpicking about the "prestige" of a league doesn't really matter..just go to the one with the fattest checks and biggest opportunity to dominate.

[OnFire]

Kentucky might go undefeated in the NBL.