Why Australia's basketball league has lost most of its original teams | ABC News

Australia’s National Basketball League (NBL) has had a chequered past, with more than twenty teams going bust in the league’s history. Donal Shiel explains why the sport has struggled to take hold Down Under, and why things are changing now. Subscribe: ab.co/3yqPOZ5
It’s getting such interest that NBA stars like Zach Randolph, Al Harrington, Dante Exum and Andrew Bogut are all starting to buy Aussie teams, even Shaquille O’Neal has expressed an interest in investing.
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