The objective is to get the Brisbane Bullets back into the National Basketball League for the 2011-12 season. And club legend, Leroy Loggins is the man driving the bid.

A founding member of the NBL, the Bullets stood the test of 29 years before collapsing under the disaster that was then-owner Eddy Groves' financial difficulties. Basketball in Brisbane has the history and supporter base to theoretically be once again a force in the NBL, but can Leapin' Leroy lead them back into the competition?

Ricky Grace, a legend of the Perth Wildcats and a former Australian Boomer, will be inducted into the Basketball Australia Hall of Fame.

Basketball Australia has released invitations for the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame & World Championships Dinner, to be held on Wednesday 18 August, 2010 in Melbourne. If you're interested in celebrating the likes of Ricky Grace being inducted into the Hall, along with the other 2010 inductees, as well as sending off the Boomers and Opals to the World Championships in style, then click on the invite below to enlarge.

Australian basketball is attempting to go through a renewal phase -- a return to glory. Basketball Australia and the NBL have put numerous plans in place to bring the fans back and re-create those amazing 1990s. Quite a few of the NBL's member teams are doing their best to follow suit. In terms of online content, the Wollongong Hawks certainly have to be right at the top of the heap.

This week the Hawks have launched a Hawks History website. The site houses a remarkable collection of photos, videos and news archives and encourages fans to contribute their own pieces of Hawks history.

There is a whole stack of people behind the contributions to this site, not the least being Joel Armstrong and Mili Simic, both of whom do a great job with keeping the good times rolling at the Hawks' main website.

Make sure you check out Hawks History and add any relics of your own.

(image credit: Roy C Arneman)

The Australian Institute of Sport has just named Ian Stacker as the Head Coach of their Men's program. He come into the role as a highly respected nurturer of young basketball talent, with well-regarded technical skills.

Stacker has been known to rub some people in the Australian basketball fraternity the wrong way, but clearly politics did not get in the way in this instance.

One area in particular that Stacker can no doubt help young Aussie players with is career progression. Clearly in recent years, the decisions of promising young Australian basketballers have been varied and questionable. The decision-making process on whether to attend College in the States, play in Europe or the NBL and when to nominate for the NBA Draft has been a contentious one for many. Some young Boomers have been successful in their progression to the NBA, whilst the timing of others' choices could be second-guessed with 20-20 hindsight.