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Aussie Guard Sees Olympic Basketball Qualifier As Precursor To NBA Game

Australian NBA player Dante Exum said that his national team's Rio Olympic qualifier at Rod Laver Arena on Aug. 15 will be "the catalyst for bringing an NBA game to Australia," according to Roy Ward of THE AGE. NBA players Andrew Bogut, Matthew Dellavedova, Cameron Bairstow, Aron Baynes and Exum have all committed to the game. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday and Basketball Australia CEO Anthony Moore said that tickets would start at A$39 ($31) and A$100 ($78) for families. BA remains in negotiations with TV networks to broadcast the two games, with the men's and women's teams "also playing return legs against their New Zealand counterparts, the Tall Blacks and Tall Ferns, in New Zealand." Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced the government would be giving major events an extra A$80M ($63M) in the next four years to keep bringing events to Melbourne. Exum: "I've talked with some of the NBA people and they have to sort out the logistics behind it but all the Australians in the NBA are happy to play an exhibition game here -- I think it will happen soon" (THE AGE, 5/3).

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