Tasmania has fallen in love with basketball thanks to its NBL team's surprise success — but the sport is so popular on the island, local courts are being overwhelmed by wannabe JackJumpers.
The association has also introduced a summer competition to "give ourselves some breathing room".
"It annoys me, particularly when you talk about the amount of money we're going to spend on major event venues.""The minute people can't play, they start to lose interest," he said.Young fans are plentiful at Tasmania JackJumpers basketball games. "If it wasn't for that private enterprise, we would be 100 per cent turning kids away," Mr Graham said."You have to look after the participation level if you want to have the elite level," he said.
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