6-546: Norths Bears is a NBL1 East club based in Sydney , New South Wales . The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1 East. The club is a division of Northern Suburbs Basketball Association (NSBA), the major administrative basketball organisation in North Sydney . The Bears play their home games at North Sydney Indoor Sports Centre. Northern Suburbs Basketball Association (NSBA)
12-668: The 2023 NBL1 East championship. The team went on to reach the championship game of the 2023 NBL1 National Finals , where they lost to the Bendigo Braves . NBL1 East NBL1 East , formerly the Waratah League , is a semi-professional basketball league in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory , comprising both a men's and women's competition. In 2021, Basketball New South Wales partnered with
18-678: The National Basketball League (NBL) to bring NBL1 to New South Wales in 2022. NBL1 replaced the former Waratah League to create more professional pathways and opportunities for males and females playing basketball in New South Wales. As a result, the Waratah League became the east conference of NBL1. The league was previously a member of the Australian Basketball Association (ABA) from 2001 to 2008. In 1991,
24-510: The New South Wales Premier Division was established. In 2001, the league was rebranded as Waratah League when the league entered the Australian Basketball Association (ABA). In 2021, Basketball New South Wales and the National Basketball League (NBL) announced a new partnership to bring NBL1 to New South Wales in 2022, with NBL1 replacing the Waratah League. The Waratah League was officially renamed NBL1 East and became
30-451: The men's team won their first Waratah League championship. They went on to claim titles in 2014 and 2017. The women's team finished runners-up in 2017. In 2018, the men's team finished runners-up while the women's team claimed their first championship. The women's team won their second championship in 2020. The Waratah League rebranded to NBL1 East in 2022 , with the Bears women going on to win
36-548: Was founded in the early 1980s. The association's representative teams, the Norths Bears, competed in the New South Wales Premier Division, which began in 1991. The women's team were runners-up in 2000, and with the rebrand to Waratah League in 2001, the team went on to claim three straight runners-up finishes with Waratah League grand final appearances in 2001 and 2002. The men's team also had back-to-back grand final appearances in 2001 and 2002 under coach Rob Beveridge . In 2012,
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