Courtesy of the Border Mail (Albury)

WHEN the NBL’s Wollongong Hawks were forced to fold earlier this year — temporarily, as it turned out — promising guard James Quinn was suddenly left with only two options. One was to head north for the winter sunshine of Queenslandand find a team willing to givehim some court time. The other was to travel south to the chilly confines of North-East Victoria, where the Albury-Wodonga Bandits were indesperate need of talented players.“The Hawks had pretty much collapsed and hadn’t had timeto organise a team in the Waratah league,” Quinn said. “Basically I got some help from (former Bandits captain) Andrew Rice’s agent who talked to some clubs in Queensland for me and also spoke to the Bandits and he reckoned here would be the best fit for me. “And it’s been great, I really like it here, the people are awesome and the basketball has been pretty good as well. “I’ll definitely be looking at coming back next year, especially if I’m playing with Wollongong, I’d like to come back down here again.”

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