Larry Kestelman wants to put te bounce back into Australian basketball

By Konrad Marshall
Updated September 3 2017 - 1:36pm, first published 12:40pm
Larry Kestelman is on a mission to turn the National Basketball League into a going concern. Photo: Kristoffer Paulsen
Larry Kestelman is on a mission to turn the National Basketball League into a going concern. Photo: Kristoffer Paulsen

A man sits alone on a folding chair at centre court, smiling. He nods approvingly as the players warm up to the dub-dub-dub of dribbled Wilsons and the peal of Nikes on pine. Very tall men named Zeng and Zhao, Tao and Gao, Gu, Hu, Yu and Wu shoot jumpers and fadeaways, lay-ups and dunks, swishes and bricks. The man seems happy in the moment… until he notices something amiss.

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