National Basketball League To Play Regular Season Games Five Days A Week In '15-16

The National Basketball League "will play regular season matches five days a week from Wednesday to Sunday in a bid to slot neatly" into the Australian Football League and National Rugby League offseasons, while taking on cricket's Big Bash League in mid-summer, according to Adrian Warren of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. The revised schedule starting in October will feature 7:30pm games on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights "plus games on Sunday afternoon and evening." NBL officials "are confident their revamp will succeed even though they acknowledge the midweek scheduling of games will result in a clash with the wildly popular BBL T20 tournament as well as some A-League matches in December and January." New NBL Exec Dir Larry Kestelman said, "We are positioning the NBL to be the number one entertainment sport in Australia and New Zealand" (AAP, 7/23).