A Trump acolyte, a rival billionaire and a power struggle: how civil war erupted in Australian basketball | Jack Snape

Donald Trump’s appointment as the next ambassador for New Zealand and Samoa, who is also a Republican political donor and the son of a St Louis oil baron, has emerged as the catalyst in the battle for control of one of the world’s top basketball leagues. It is a story of international athletic A-listers, a controversial property development and high-net-worth individuals with pockets billions of dollars deep. But most of all it is about whether professional basketball in Australia can be viable, and whose vision may prove it so. Jared Novelly, owner of Australian National Basketball League (NBL) club the

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