metropolitan basketball association

The Australian National Basketball League has seen many great local and imported talent to play our court. NBL has been a springboard for the NBA's greatest players. However, it is not always the case.
Australia is a very young country, the first basketball association which was founded in 1936, the South Australian metropolitan basketball association. This is Jack and Eric Akrawi in 1938 after a lot of efforts by the New South Wales Basketball Association franchise. Amateur Basketball Association was founded in 1939, the Australian state of New South Wales and Vitoria Basketball Association, which is a climax. Abu is a forerunner of the Australian basketball association.
Play basketball in Australia are small suburban stadium only a few hundred people attended, support the game player. In fact, the first national men's championships in Australia did not play, until 1946 in Sydney. New South Wales beat Vitoria 50 -44! Queensland basketball set up in the same year - great game began to spread. It was not long after, Australia in 1948 to become the fifty-second session of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) affiliated members.
Take a bit longer, women to enhance competition, in the first Australian women's national championships in 1955. South Australia 50-34 in the final beat New South wales! Unfortunately, to host the Olympic Games in 1956 in Australia, only the men's team to participate in the. The tide has completed twelfth. The women's competition to strengthen and the Australian team in the first World Championships they, in Brazil in 1957. In addition, in 1957, the Australian men's national team for the first time in Yugoslavia World Championships, finishing deduct 12 days.