He usually sees the funny side of the most serious situations.But Wollongong Hawks forward Glen Saville could barely crack a smile when discussing his uncertain professional basketball future yesterday.Knowing the Hawks have just three games left before the club is read its last rites, the two-time Olympian wasn't his usual jovial self."It's very disappointing," Saville said after a three-hour training session. "How many times have you been told as a basketball player by a coach that you've gotta play like it's your last game? Well, that's the exact situation we're faced with right now. "If I had a dollar for every time a coach had said that to me, but then not appreciated it, I'd be a rich man, but that's what we're in for. Some of us, myself included, could be playing our last game."The Hawks were planning on applying for a place in next season's restructured national competition before the club's ownership group pulled the pin due to a lack of funding.Wollongong host New Zealand tomorrow night and Adelaide next Friday before clashing with the Gold Coast Blaze on the road on Saturday week.The NBL's last original club will then close its doors forever.Saville said his emotions would be running high over the next fortnight."I'll look back at all the memories I have from playing and emotionally I'm going to find it very hard in that last home game. "It's not a great way to finish up but there's not much you can do when you don't have any control over it," he said."I do want to continue to play basketball but it's not going to be here and obviously that hurts. I'll just reflect on the opportunity I had to get to play here for so many years."It opened a lot of doors for me. "I got a lot of court time as a young player and won a championship here and I got to play at an Olympic level with Australia."While several Hawks are resigned to their careers being all but over, Saville is certain to be picked up by one of the teams in the new competition.However, he will be reluctant to pack his bags, particularly with wife Angela's fitness training business thriving in the region."To be able to live here has been great. We'll be starting a family here and there's no way my missus will let us move back to my home town Bendigo, and that suits me because I love Wollongong and we're here to stay," the 33-year-old said."I've got no idea and no feel whatsoever for what's going to happen with the league."Is there even going to be a league next year? What's it going to be called? "If they end up having to take a year off, is that it for me? Do I stop playing if there's that much of a break?"Saville said he would not rush into any decision about joining a new club. "It has to be the right situation," he said."Last year was a long year with the Boomers and the Olympics and then coming back to play this season."I can't make a decision about next season because I'm in the dark about the league as anyone else is. For me, it's about taking a break after this year and recovering mentally. "I'd be living away from my wife and friends and it's not something I like to think about right now. I need to clear my head and then think about those things."I just hope that everything that's gone into trying to create a better league, I hope it works. "It's not going to happen in one season. It's going to take time. I'm going to be retired when that happens and won't get to be part of it if and when it's on the improve."It was a pretty good league when I started and I want to see basketball do well again, and see young Australian players have the opportunities I had. "It's a great lifestyle to be a professional athlete and get paid to do something you really love to do."