Basketball Australia

Adelaide Lightning's most successful coach is demanding answers as the club stares down the barrel of potential collapse.

A Sydney Kings player has been dealt a provisional suspension due to a failed performance-enhancing drugs test on the cusp of the NBL finals.

Jaylen Brown, a 19-year-old from Warrnambool, shares the same name as the reigning NBA Finals MVP from the Boston Celtics.

Sacked Adelaide 36ers coach Scott Ninnis is furious with the club after he was axed from his role just six months into a two-year contract.

It only took eight minutes for both sides to show their aggression as a foul against Spain led to an intense push and shove.

The Boomers will have to wait and see if their veteran guard comes into Paris 2024 with limited game time after he was waived.

Lauren Jackson is 42 and Isobel Borlase 19. They will take to the court as Australian teammates in Brazil this week.

Australian basketball great Andrew Bogut says "the damage has been done" to Josh Giddey's reputation as he awaits an NBA investigation.

Ben Simmons says he is "100 per cent committed" to representing the Boomers in Paris, but Andrew Bogut isn't entirely convinced.

Ben Simmons is ready to bring home the gold for Australia at next year's Olympics, and isn't daunted by the NBA's best teaming up.