NBL1 is a semi-professional basketball league in Australia, consisting of South, North, Central, West Conferences and East Conferences with both men’s and women’s competitions.

Each conference is run by their respective state governing body, with the league including 72 clubs from across every state and territory.

The league replaced the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL), Australia’s pre-eminent semi-professional basketball league between 1981 and 2018.

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The Spalding Waratah League is the senior basketball league in NSW, which comprises of 5 divisions. The season commences in March each year with the finals weekend being held in August. 

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Basketball NSW in partnership with Wheelchair Sports NSW/ACT unveiled the inaugural teams set to compete in the new Spalding Waratah Wheelchair League which began in 2022.

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The NBL1 East inaugural season was in 2022. 

Both teams made it through to the finals.

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