National Basketball League
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A national competition was also seen as a way of improving the standard of players who would compete for Australia at events such as the Olympic Games and World Championships. Since that day, the NB has grown from a fledgling competition with games played in front of impartial a scanty hundred people to a league that attracts more than 750,00 spectators each season, as healthy as prime time television audiences for games broadcast nationally. Basketball also has one of the greatest participation rates of any team sport in Australia, with numbers continuing to grow each year. Four men have been associated with the league record of six championships, as a player ardor coach. Phil Smith has an even record of rings winning three as a player and three as a head coach. In order to be eligible for the Hall of Fame, a player or head coach must have been retired for at least four years. In addition, an AllNBL First Team is named, and is made up of the leading five players in the league from that season.