Jon Tuxworth

Jon Tuxworth

Basketball

Stars to align for centenary show

jackson and mills

Jon Tuxworth Basketball will join Canberra's centenary party when the Boomers and Opals play a double-header against New Zealand at the AIS in August.

Basketball

Gunners import keen on NBL

Canberra Gunners biggest ever signing is Baltimore boy and scoring machine Camontae Griffin.

Jon Tuxworth A diminutive point guard from St Mary's College will play for the Canberra Gunners this season. And no, it's not Patrick Mills.

Basketball

Australia on brink of another golden age

Australian girls basketball National Identification training program

Jon Tuxworth Basketball Australia development officer Mike McHugh believes the sport is on the verge of a similar ''golden generation'' to that which uncovered Canberra Capitals star Lauren Jackson.

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Beveridge eyes Boomers gig

Rob Beveridge

Jon Tuxworth Canberra's Rob Beveridge wants the Australian Boomers coaching job after Brett Brown quit the post this week.

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Canberran Malone joins star in elite company

Darcy Malone

Jon Tuxworth ON FACE value, seven-foot Canberra teenager Darcy Malone and pint-sized NBA star Patrick Mills have little in common.

Mills turns down Spurs, chases better offer

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 14: Patrick Mills of the Tigers looks on during the round two NBL match between the Perth Wildcats and the Melbourne Tigers at Challenge Stadium on October 14, 2011 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

Chris Dutton, Jon Tuxworth Canberra basketballer Patrick Mills will enter the NBA free agents market after declining a second-year option on his contract with the San Antonio Spurs.

Basketball

Spurred on by the greats, Mills is back on court

Jon Tuxworth From three months in the basketball wilderness, to rubbing shoulders with some of the game's all-time greats.