The chairman of the embattled Australian National Basketball League has rejected a call to shut it down and relaunch.
Corey Webster in action against Adelaide. Photo: Photosport
Graeme Wade says the league will definitely continue next season, even if there are only six teams competing.
Andrew Gaze, arguably the greatest player in NBL history, called for the competition to be restarted after the Townsville Crocodiles notified the NBL yesterday of their decision to go into voluntary administrating.
That came just eight days after Wollongong Hawks had done the same.
The NBL, whose 2014-15 season finished last Sunday, is already down to an equal all-time low of eight clubs but chairman Wade says to be even talking about having a season off makes no sense.
Wade says the NBL is working on contingencies for the size of the 2015-16 competition to be anywhere between six and nine teams, including a proposed new Brisbane franchise that has yet to be signed up.
