Australian basketball, remembered in full detail.
Aussie Hoopla is a deep Australian basketball show built around NBL interviews, old rivalries, and lived-in league history. Dan Boyce keeps the pace conversational, giving guests room to explain coaching ideas, club politics, comeback stories, and the moments supporters still argue about.
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Aussie Hoopla is an Australian basketball show with the patience of an archive and the looseness of a good courtside conversation. It is built around the NBL, but it rarely treats the league as just scores and headlines. Episodes make room for long answers. That matters. A conversation with Mick Downer can settle into the practical work of offensive rebounding, defensive transition, shot clocks, tagging up, baseline spills, and the slow process of getting players to trust a new system. A remastered Ken Cole interview turns into something broader, moving from Adelaide 36ers history to leadership, respect, cancer, and the pressure points that shaped a team. The show also has a strong taste for rivalry. Its Kings-Hawks series tracks the relationship through seasons, imports, injuries, name changes, crowd energy, buzzer-beaters, and the little gestures that supporters remember long after the ladder moves on. The detail is specific and often local: Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra, Darwin, Gold Coast, and the question of where the NBL should grow next. Dorry Kordahi's episode adds club ownership and expansion politics to that mix, with the Falcons as both history and possibility. Player stories sit beside club stories. Keli Leaupepe's signing with Sydney and Mike Dunlap's reflections on coaching the Adelaide 36ers show the podcast's range, even when the excerpts give only a small window into those conversations. Dan Boyce's style is plainspoken and informed. He frames the subject, supplies enough history to orient the listener, and then lets the guest carry the experience. The result is especially good for fans who want Australian basketball treated as a serious sporting culture, full of tactics, memory, personalities, and unfinished arguments. It is warm, detailed, and proudly invested in the NBL.
Made for: For NBL followers, Boomers fans, and Australian basketball tragics who want more than weekly results. It especially suits listeners who enjoy player interviews, club history, rivalry lore, and tactical detail.
What sets it apart: Aussie Hoopla stands out by combining current interviews with deep NBL memory, often grounding big themes in games, seasons, clubs, and player stories. It feels less like a news panel and more like an oral history project that still cares about what happens next.
Visit our website at www.aussiehoopla.com for in depth analysis of Aussie Basketball. Each episode features interviews with current Aussie basketball stars, Australian Boomers playing overseas and legends of the NBL.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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A practical look at how shot-clock thinking and transition drills helped reshape a team's title-winning habits.
Aussie Hoopla treats defensive transition as a working coaching problem, following how shot-clock thinking, baseline spills, tagging up and safety choices became part of a usable system.
Ken Cole ties Adelaide's Golden Era to the discipline, loyalty, and personal standards that shaped the team.
Ken Cole's basketball life comes through as a story of conviction, memory, and hard-earned perspective, moving from the game's lift after the 1956 Olympics to the Adelaide 36ers' Golden Era and his long fight with cancer.
Newcastle's basketball history meets the practical questions behind a possible NBL return.
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A statement win and a one-point Kings escape show how one buzzer-beater and one gesture became rivalry lore.
Aussie Hoopla's Kings-Hawks episode frames the rivalry through the possessions that made it feel personal. It starts with Sydney's season-opening win in Illawarra: Derek Walton Junior's 32 points and eight assists, Xavier Cooks forcing his way to the rim for 24, and Lockie Dent…
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A grounded basketball career story, lifted by a vivid Milwaukee memory of Ray Allen at work.
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Fast takes, sharp turns, loud sports arguments.
Cavaliers playoff detail, every day.
Craig Moller discusses how Covid prevented the Kings from winning the 2020 title and offers advice on choosing between AFL and NBL careers.
Dan Boyce explores the origins of the Sydney Kings vs Illawarra Hawks rivalry in the NBL, featuring interviews with legends from both teams.
Host Dan Boyce interviews former NBL player Jayson Wells about his basketball career and life after retirement.
Mario Donaldson, who averaged over 22 points for the 1994 Sydney Kings, recounts how a celebrity judge's approach left the NBL All-Star dunk contest with no agreed winner among himself, Leon Trimingham and Calvin Telford.
["Dan Boyce interviews Mick Downer on Aussie Hoopla about coaching the Akita Northern Happinets, and Downer says the club name was built to bring \"happiness to the region through Hoops.\" Downer is a 25-year NBL coach and 2016 Boomers staff member, and Boyce describes Aussie Hoopla as Australia's longest-running basketball podcast.", "Downer compares Japan's 60-game B.League grind with the NBL, says he follows Australian games on YouTube, and explains why Akita's season was derailed by injuries and a Christmas Day coaching change.
Dan Boyce speaks with Ken Cole, newly appointed president of the Adelaide 36ers, and frames him as a Boomer, a former Olympic and World Championship player, and the coach of the 1986 Invincibles.
Dori Kordahi says he has bought into Lebanon's National Sports Academy, renamed it the NSA Falcons, and is already meeting Australian ambassador Andrew Barnes and sports and youth minister Nora in Beirut.
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Dan Boyce discusses LaMelo Ball, a spy-gate scandal, and the Illawarra Hawks losing their name.
Aussie Hoopla traces the Kings-Hawks rivalry from Bob Turner, Alan Black, and Greg Hubbard through Sydney’s roster churn with Shane Heal, Isaac Burton, and Melvin Thomas.
Keli Leaupepe discusses signing with Sydney, his rookie goals, and his journey from an unknown junior to being wanted by multiple NBL teams.
Mike Dunlap discusses his time coaching the Adelaide 36ers, winning an NBA championship with the Milwaukee Bucks, and lessons from his coaching career.