Basketball

Having already been on the losing end of brilliant performances from two of the world’s best players in Paris, the Boomers face another huge challenge in their sudden death quarterfinal tonight.

The Boomers have been handed an agonising defeat in their crunch-time clash with Greece and their Olympic fate is now up to the basketball gods. 

One end of RAC Arena will be transformed into a Boombox for multiple basketball games during HoopsFest after the event secured a world-renowned headline act.

The Boomers are locked in a battle to progress to the quarter-finals after they were outgunned 93-83 by Canada in a high-quality Olympic pool game in Lille.

The Opals were made to pay for constant turnovers and poor free-throw shooting in a 13-point loss to Nigeria that has severely dented their Olympic hopes.

Dante Exum will play through the pain of a badly dislocated finger suffered in the Boomers' one-point defeat of France that completed a positive Games build-up.

The Australian Boomers continue to impress after a downing powerhouse Serbia led by one of the NBA’s elite.

Australia have taken the US team full of NBA All-Stars down to the wire in a lead-up game ahead of their Paris Olympics campaign.

An incredible 11-year media deal worth $A112.6 billion will ensure one sporting code’s player salaries will keep rising.

The NBA’s biggest stars have come together at a training camp in the US and one has made a startling admission.

Australian basketball great Lauren Jackson is still setting new benchmarks at 43 years of age, as she chases an elusive Olympic gold medal in Paris.

Superstar LeBron James has got his wish and will play with his son in the NBA.

Former Perth Wildcats Next Star dynamo Alex Sarr has realised his NBA dream, picked by the Washington Wizards with the second overall selection in the 2024 draft.

He may end the week as a Washington Wizard, but Alex Sarr will forever be a Wildcat – and he’s praised the impact the NBL has had in fast-tracking his development as one of the NBA’s top draft prospects.

Alex Sarr is firming to become the highest NBA draft pick to have come out of the NBL – and the Perth Wildcats have declared the young star’s ascension stamps them as a global destination club.