With the NBL facing a complete overhaul in the coming year there is much talk about the fate of players, coaches and in fact the viability of the national league all together. This weekend will see the meeting of stakeholders,other relevant parties and Australian basketball officials. The future of the competition will be decided based on the recommendations of an independent review.
Prominent speculation is that the League will follow in the footsteps of the former National Soccer League (NSL)forming something similar to its A league.
The big elephant (or man dressed in an elephant suit) in the room that all seem to be ignoring is; exactly what will happen to our basketball mascots? The Sydney Kings and the Brisbane Bullets characters were buried along with their clubs this year. That awkwardly tall kings lion and silver suited lunatic lost to the special mascot place in the sky. Can we assume this is the fate of all of our NBL mascots?
The job desription requires them to jump through flaming hoops, flip over 5 cheerleaders, bring a crowd to their feet all of this while wearing a cumbersome mascot outfit. Is the League going to leave them out in the cold? If following in the footsteps of A League does it mean that the new mascots would also be the strange human kind that Sydney FC are now using.
All we can do is hope that the marketing think tanks fill the possible mascot vaccum with some quality characters. Also if the mascots have to be the bizarre human kind please pay attention to the structure of the costumes hands, at the moment Syd and Sydnee from Sydney FC appear to be flipping the crowd the bird.
Do you have any suggestions for what is potentially a clean mascot canvas?
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