With the Hawks seemingly doomed, Campbell is concerned about his less experienced team-mates, not to mention "colleagues" in rival teams.

"It's tough times. We've got all the players sitting around and no-one's guaranteed of a job next year, some of the younger guys especially," the 32-year-old guard said.

"That's the hard thing at the moment, not knowing until March whether there's going to be a club here or in other places.

"I've been lucky enough to play all my career here and have a basketball career, but some of these younger guys who have just established themselves like a (Hawks centre) Cam Tragardh and those kinds of guys, they're just getting in there and they haven't had their chance to play a number of years. They're going to be sitting around and waiting to see if they have a job or not."

Wollongong are almost certain to miss a place in the restructured 2009-10 competition due to a lack of funding.

Clubs will need $1.5 million upfront, a figure the Hawks simply can't meet.

While Campbell accepted that basketball needed a massive overhaul to move forward, he hopes the powers-that-be know what they are doing.

"Basketball needs to survive in Australia and it needs to be good," he said. "If they get it right and we have to be a casualty, then so be it, but obviously we'd love our club to be involved and push through to the future and be that foundation club that was there from the start."

The Hawks have four games remaining. They host Melbourne on Friday night and Campbell was adamant the team would keep playing hard.

"What do you do? You can't change anything now. We fight for the rest of the season," he said.

"Cookie (coach Eric Cooks) touched on it that we play for pride every week we step on the court, but we have to now more than ever."