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The Adelaide 36ers are Adelaide's men's professional basketball team, established as the Adelaide City Eagles when they joined the National Basketball League (NBL) in 1982. The Adelaide 36ers tally of four championships is equal with the Melbourne Tigers and second behind the Perth Wildcats as the most by any team in the NBL's history. The 36ers nickname comes from the fact that the Colony of South Australia was Officially Proclaimed on 28 December 1836.

Club history

1980s

The Adelaide 36ers were born as the Adelaide City Eagles when they joined the NBL in 1982. Mike Osborne was appointed as team coach, Chris Stirling was captain and the team played out of the 3,000 seat Apollo Stadium. The Eagles performed well in their first season but missed the playoffs finishing in 7th place on the ladder with a 15-11 record.

The Adelaide City Eagles changed their name after the 1982 season to the Adelaide 36ers to reflect on the history of South Australia's proclamation in 1836. Mike Osborne continued as head coach while David Winslow was named team captain. The 36ers once again missed the NBL playoffs in 1983 finishing 6th on the ladder with an 11-11 record.

The 1984 NBL season saw the first time the 36ers would reach the NBL finals, finishing the regular season in 3rd place in the Western Division with a 16-7 record. The team lost their Elimination Final to the Nunawading Spectres 108-101. Following the season, Mike Osborne was not retained as coach.

Former Australian Boomer and 1964 Olympic representative Ken Cole was signed as coach of the Adelaide 36ers for the 1985 NBL season. Under Cole, the 36ers became one of the leagues premier teams. Import players including 6'9" (206 cm) centre Bill Jones, New York born guard Al Green (who had been drafted by the San Diego Chargers as a Defensive back in the 1979 NFL Draft despite not playing football) and an NBL rookie in 24 year old forward from Philadelphia, Mark Davis, combined with local players Darryl "The Iceman" Pearce, team captain Peter "Pa" Ali and veteran Ray Wood to help Adelaide to a 20-6 record and second on the regular season ladder. The team had a bye going into the semi-final where they easily defeated for the Newcastle Falcons 151-103 at home in what is still a record semi-final win in the NBL. In the last single game NBL grand final ever played, Adelaide were up against the Brisbane Bullets on the Bullets' home court (Sleeman Sports Centre). Going into the final period the game the Bullets' were leading 78-74 but a 42-21 last period in favor of the home team saw Adelaide fail to win their first grand final going down 95-120. Al Green would set a still standing single season points per game record for the 36ers when he scored 31ppg in 28 games played.

1986 would see the Adelaide 36ers win the first of their four NBL championships. Bill Jones replaced Peter Ali as captain while Ken Cole would win the NBL Coach of the Year award after guiding the team to a 24-2 record, 5 more wins than the second placed Canberra Cannons. The 36ers were also undefeated at home during the regular season going 15-0, the first time in the clubs history. The two games the 36ers lost in the regular season were both last second shots that ultimately denied Adelaide a perfect season and locally the team was known as 'The Invincibles". Again earning a bye into the semi-finals, Adelaide this time accounted for the Illawarra Hawks 116-92 before moving onto their second grand final in a row, this time to be played over three games instead of the single game that had been in place previously. Once again facing the Brisbane Bullets, the 36ers won the first game of the series 122-119 in overtime at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. Back home in Adelaide the 36ers would lose only their third game of the year (and first at home) when they lost game two 83-104. The final game played at home in front of a packed Apollo Stadium saw the Adelaide 36ers win their first championship with a 113-91 victory. Mark Davis finished second in the NBL in total rebounds (15.8 per game), won the NBL Grand Final MVP award and also won selection in the All NBL First Team.

Despite the on court success there was controversy at the club during the 1986 season with coach Ken Cole suspended towards the end of the regular season by the club board over his smoking of marijuana joint during a road trip to Brisbane, a situation that Cole was open about and never denied. Indeed, he stated that he was recommended it by his family doctor as a way of dealing with health problems and physical pain. After the story was broken in local Adelaide newspaper The Advertiser by journalist Andrew Both, Cole was suspended by the club for the last two games and the team was coached by his assistant Don Shipway. Before the playoffs, the players got together and went to the club board demanding Cole's return, going so far as to tell the board that they would refuse to play unless Cole was coaching them. Under immense pressure from not only the players but the general public of Adelaide who supported Cole despite his admitted use of the drug, the club board relented and Cole returned for the 1986 playoffs, though it was known that he would be sacked over the incident at the end of the season regardless of a championship win or not.

Ken Cole, the 1986 NBL Coach of the Year and the 1986 championship winning coach was replaced for the 1987 NBL season by Gary Fox who would continue the work started by Cole by coaching Adelaide to their second minor premiership in a row with a 21-5 record. For the third season running the team hard earned a bye to the semi-finals where this time they would face the Perth Wildcats who were in their first ever playoffs. In a major upset the defending NBL champions lost the series 1-2 to the Wildcats. They won 99-98 in Perth but then lost games two and three 99-101 and 93-103 on their home court. Mark Davis would continue to have a major impact on the NBL when he jointly won the leagues Most Valuable Player award with Brisbane's Leroy Loggins. He also led the league in rebounding averaging 17.8 for the season.

Adelaide finished with their third minor premiership in a row and the second under Gary Fox after finishing with a 19-5 record in 1988 but would again be beaten Semi-Finalists. Bill Jones, who was still playing with the club, was replaced as team captain by Australian Boomers representative Darryl Pearce. Against the Ken Cole coached Falcons in Newcastle during 1988, Darryl Pearce would set a still standing single game scoring record for the 36ers when he scored 48 points including 11 of 14 three point attempts. 1988 also saw local 6'10" (208 cm) centre Mark Bradtke make his NBL debut for the 36ers, playing in 23 games and averaging 7.4 points and 5.4 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game. Both Pearce and Bradtke won selection for Australia at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul.

1989 was Gary Fox's last season with the Adelaide 36ers and it saw the team drop to 6th on the regular season ladder with a 15-9 record. Adelade were eliminated from the playoffs in the Elimination Final. Mark Bradtke's star continued to rise with the Boomers representative winning the NBL's Most Improved Player award.

1990s

Former 36ers assistant coach Don Shipway was appointed coach of the team for the 1990 NBL season which was the team miss the playoffs for the first time since 1983 when they finished 9th with an 11-15 record, the clubs first ever losing season. Mark Davis became captain of the team in 1990, a position he would hold until the end of the 1996 season.

Shipway was retained as coach for the 1991 NBL season despite the teams worst ever performance in 1990. The team turned their form around finishing the regular season in 4th place with a 16-10 record. They lost their semi-final series to defending and eventual league champion the Perth Wildcats, missing out on their third grand final appearance. 1991 was the last season that local favourite and former captain Darryl Pearce would play for the club, signing with the North Melbourne Giants from 1992. The season was also the teams last playing out of the 3,000 seat Apollo Stadium which had opened in 1969. A new venue was due to be opened for the 1992 season.

Adelaide had played at the Apollo Stadium since the teams inception in 1982. However ticket demand was more than double that of what Apollo could hold so in conjunction with the Basketball Association of South Australia (BASA), a new home for basketball in South Australia was opened in 1992. The 7,800 seat Clipsal Powerhouse quickly became a fortress for the 36ers with every game a sell-out. However their road form wasn't so good and they dropped to 9th on the table with an 11-13 record. Team members Mark Bradtke and Mike Mackay would go on to represent Australia at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. 1992 was also the rookie NBL season for Brett Maher who would go on to play a record 526 games for the club.

After their second losing season, the 36ers replaced Don Shipway with Don Monson as coach for the 1993 season. The team had lost centre Mark Bradtke to the Melbourne Tigers during the off-season but gained Adelaide born veteran Phil Smyth and veteran 7'0" (213 cm) centre Willie Simmons from Canberra. Adelaide improved to a 14-12 record under Monson and made the playoffs finishing in 7th place but were beaten Quarter-Finalists. Local junior Chris Blakemore was named the 1993 NBL Rookie of the Year while 8th year guard and future team coach Scott Ninnis was voted as the NBL's Most Improved Player scoring a career best 20.1 points and 4.4 assists per game after returning from two seasons in Melbourne with the Eastside Spectres and the South East Melbourne Magic.

The Adelaide 36ers pulled off a major signing between the 1993 and 1994 seasons when they signed the league's 1993 MVP Robert Rose for two seasons. They also had a new head coach in former NCAA coach Mike Dunlap. Finishing in 4th place with a 19-8 record, the 36ers won their semi-final series against the defending champion Melbourne Tigers to win their way into the 1994 NBL grand final series against the North Melbourne Giants. Adelaide went down two games to none however, losing game one at the Powerhouse 93-95 in overtime and game two at The Glasshouse in Melbourne 117-97. Robert Rose averaged 32 points for the 36ers over the two grand final games.

The team had recruited well going into 1996 obtaining forward Martin Cattalini from Perth and 2nd year guard John Rillie from Brisbane and despite continued good form which saw the 36ers make the playoffs under Mike Dunlap in 1995 and 1996, the 36ers were eliminated in the Semi-Finals both times. Following the death of his father, coach Dunlap decided to return home to the United States following the 1996 season and the club hired Dave Claxton as his replacement for the 1997 season. This season also saw Brett Maher take over the team captaincy, something he would hold until his retirement in 2009. Adelaide finished with a 14-16 record in 1997, finishing in 7th place and missing the playoffs for the first time since 1992.

Phil Smyth Era

Claxton was sacked as head coach following the 1997 season and was replaced by rookie coach and former player Phil Smyth. The 36ers turned their fortunes around under Smyth and finished the regular season in 2nd place with a 19-11 record. The club head recruited centre Paul Rees from North Melbourne and former NBA player Darnell Mee from Canberra. They won through to the 1998 NBL Grand Final series against the South East Melbourne Magic where they would win the clubs first championship since 1986 defeating the Magic 2-0, winning Game 1 100-93 at home and Game 2 90-62 at Melbourne Park. Former NBA player Kevin Brooks was named the Grand Final MVP in what was the last ever winter season for the National Basketball League.

Following the 1998 season, the NBL moved from being a winter league to playing during Australia's summer, meaning that seasons would start near the end of one calender year and finish early in the next. The change in time slot didn't stop the defending NBL champion 36ers though as they finished the 1998-99 regular season with their first minor premiership since 1988 with an 18-8 record. Again winning their way into the Grand Final series, they became three time NBL champions and the first team to win back to back titles in nearly a decade by defeating the Victoria Titans two games to one. Captain Brett Maher was voted the Grand Final MVP and coach Phil Smyth had his second championship in two years of coaching.

The 36ers form would continue in both the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 seasons, despite losing star import forward Kevin Brooks to the Sydney Kings for the 99-00 season, though he would return in 2000-01. They were again minor premiers in 1999-2000 with a 22-6 record but missed out on becoming the first team to win three NBL championships in a row when they lost in the Semi-Finals. After falling to 6th on the ladder at the end of 2000-01 and just scraping into the playoffs, the 36ers would again only advance as far as the Semi-Finals before losing to the eventual champions, the Wollongong Hawks. The 2001-01 season was also the last for longtime player and former club captain Mark Davis who retired from playing after 482 NBL games, all with the Adelaide 36ers. At the time of his retirement, Mark Davis was the NBL's all-time leading rebounder having grabbed 5,200 in his career, averaging 10.7 per game. Import Darnell Mee, in his fourth year with the club would win his third consecutive NBL Best Defensive Player award but would be lost to the club at the end of the season due to salary cap restraints.

2001-02 would see the Adelaide 36ers win a then record fourth NBL title and the third for coach Phil Smyth. The team would finish the regular season in 3rd place with a 17-13 record before winning their way into their sixth NBL Grand Final. Facing the West Sydney Razorbacks, Adelaide were victorious two games to one. Adelaide's 125 points in game 3 is the highest ever score in an NBL Grand Final game while they also hit a Grand Final record 19 three-pointers in the game. Adelaide captain Brett Maher became only the second player in NBL history to win two Grand Final MVP awards.

Under Phil Smyth, Adelaide were beaten Elimination-Finalists in both 2002-03 and 2003-04 despite the addition of imports Willie Farley and the debut of local forward Oscar Forman. They were beaten Quarter-Finalists in both the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons. The 2006-07 NBL season saw the 36ers miss the playoffs for the first time since Smyth took over as coach, finishing a club record wost place of 11th with an 11-13 record. They would again miss the playoffs in 2007-08 finishing in 9th place with a 14-16 record. Following his second losing season, the team decided to replace Phil Smyth as head coach with former player and Smyth assistant Scott Ninnis.

2008/2009 - Present

Ninnis would coach the team for two seasons of a 3 season contract, leading the team to the Elimination Finals in 2008-09. The team, which included local junior and former NBA player Luke Schenscher, finished the regular season in 6th place with a 15-15 record before losing their quarter final 131-101 to the New Zealand Breakers in Auckland. 2009 was also the last season for the club games record holder Brett Maher who was retiring after 526 NBL games and three championships with the 36ers. The 2009-10 season was a disaster however and the Adelaide 36ers finished on the bottom of the NBL ladder for the first time in their history with a 10-18 record. American born but naturalised Australian Adam Ballinger, in his third season with the club became team captain in 2009-10 following the retirement of Maher.

Following the clubs worst ever season, Scott Ninnis was sacked as coach and replaced by former AIS coach Marty Clarke for the 2010-11 NBL season.

Adelaide and Clarke endured a difficult season in 2010-11. They lost guard Nathan Herbert before the season with an Anterior cruciate ligament injury. injuries to import guards Troy DeVries and Craig Winder ultimately saw them replaced in the squad. For the first time in their history, the Adelaide 36ers failed to win at least 10 games in a season, finishing with a 9-19 record. They did avoid their second last place finish in a row only because the returning Sydney Kings finished with an 8-20 record. Captain Adam Ballinger was again the clubs leading player as he won his fourth straight club MVP award, finished third in the NBL's MVP voting and was selected to the NBL's All Third team.

The Adelaide 36ers have reached the playoffs 21 times in 30 full seasons and on top of their four championships in 1986, 1998, 1998–99 and 2001–02 they reached the Grand Final in 1985 and 1994. They have also finished as minor premier on five occasions (1986, 1987, 1988, 1998-99, 1999-2000)

Sponsorship

The Adelaide 36ers were previously sponsored by Pura milk and with the naming rights of Pura Milk 36ers. Before this they were the West End 36ers (as in West End Brewery) also taking various names from West End products, being known locally for a time during the 1990s as the Eagle Super 6ers. In 2009 the team was sponsored by Hood Sweeney, an Adelaide based consulting firm and were known as the Hood Sweeney Adelaide 36'ers. Other major sponsors include KIA Motors and Sprint Auto Parts. As of 2010, the teams main shirt sponsor is staff recruitment firm extrastaff.^[1]

Coaches

As of their 30th season (2010-11), the Adelaide 36ers have had nine head coaches including Ken Cole, who coached the team to two NBL Grand Finals in his two seasons with the club (1985 and 1986) including their 1st ever championship in 1986 (the first time the NBL GF was a best of 3 series instead of a single game), American Mike Dunlap^[2] who led the team to the 1994 NBL Grand Final series against the North Melbourne Giants and Australian basketball legend Phil Smyth who coached the team for 11 seasons from 1998 to 2007-08 and led them to the 1998, 1998–99 and 2001-02 NBL Championships.

Ownership

In April 2006 the 36ers, the Adelaide Lightning WNBL team and the teams home venue, the Distinctive Homes Dome, went up for sale due to mishandling of debt owed to the government by the then owner BASA. On 25 July 2006, a consortium of Mal Hemmerling & Eddie Groves bought the Adelaide 36ers & the Distinctive Homes Dome for $3.95 million - with Mal Hemmerling in place as owner of the 36ers and Eddie Groves as the owner of the stadium. The money for the sale went to the government to wipe out the debt owed by BASA. BASA is now defunct and replaced by Basketball SA - focused solely on all Basketball in SA and no one competition.

In June 2009 Mal Hemmerling sold the team to a group of 8 individuals led by new Club Chairman Mark Lewis and new Club CEO Ben Fitzsimons called the Save Our Sixers Consortium.

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Home Arena

Between 1982 and 1991 the home court of the 36ers was the 3,000 seat Apollo Stadium. Home games were always a sell-out for the 36ers but going into the 1990's Apollo seen as too small and due to the high demand for tickets, the 36ers and the BASA built a new home arena which opened in 1992. The newly constructed Clipsal Powerhouse which seats 7,800, was and still is the largest purpose built basketball stadium in Australia. Clipsal would sponsor the venue until the end of 2001-02, after which it became known as the Distinctive Homes Dome in recognition of the sponsorship from Distinctive Homes.

The Dome has been without a naming rights sponsor since mid-2009 but on February 7 of that year the main court was named in honor of longtime club captain Brett Maher who made his 36ers debut at the Powerhouse in 1992 and played all of his 526 NBL games for the club. The venue is now known as the Adelaide Arena or the Brett Maher Court while the national media refer to it as the Adelaide Dome or just The Dome.

The Adelaide Arena is currently the second largest venue used in the National Basketball League behind the 10,500 seat Sydney Entertainment Centre and despite recent poor performances from Adelaide, the team continues to be at the or near the top in NBL average attendance figures.

Honour roll

NBL Championships:	4 (1986, 1998, 1998–99, 2001–02)
NBL Finals Appearances:	21 (1984-89, 1991, 1993–96, 1998–2006, 2009)
NBL Grand Final Appearances:	6 (1985, 1986, 1994, 1998, 1998–99, 2001–02)
NBL Most Valuable Players:	Mark Davis (1987)
NBL Grand Final MVPs:	Mark Davis (1986), Kevin Brooks (1998), Brett Maher (1999, 2001–02)
All-NBL First Team:	Dan Clausen (1984), Al Green (1985), Mark Davis (1987–89, 1991), Robert Rose (1995), Kevin Brooks (1999), Darnell Mee (2001), Brett Maher (2000, 2003, 2006)
NBL Coach of the Year:	Ken Cole (1986)
NBL Rookie of the Year:	Mike McKay (1985), Chris Blakemore (1993), Aaron Bruce (2009)
NBL Most Improved Player:	Mark Bradtke (1989), Scott Ninnis (1993), Chris Blakemore (1994)
NBL Best Defensive Player:	Darnell Mee (1999, 2000, 2001)
NBL Best Sixth Man:	None

Source: www.nbl.com.au

Adelaide 36ers NBL Championship banners

Season-by-Season

Season	Results	Finals	Coach	Captain	Club MVP
1982	7th (15-11)	-	Mike Osborne	Chris Stirling	not awarded
1983	6th (11-11)	-	Mike Osborne	David Winslow	not awarded
1984	3rd (16-7)	Elimination-Finalists	Mike Osborne	Dean Kinsman	not awarded
1985	2nd (20-6)	Grand-Finalists	Ken Cole	Peter Ali	Mark Davis
1986	1st (24-2)	CHAMPIONS	Ken Cole	Bill Jones	Mark Davis**
1987	1st (21-5)	Semi-Finalists	Gary Fox	Bill Jones	Mark Davis*
1988	1st (19-5)	Semi-Finalists	Gary Fox	Darryl Pearce/Peter Ali	Mark Davis
1989	6th (15-9)	Elimination-Finalists	Gary Fox	Darryl Pearce	Mark Davis
1990	9th (11-15)	-	Don Shipway	Mark Davis	Mark Davis
1991	4th (16-10)	Semi-Finalists	Don Shipway	Mark Davis	Mark Davis
1992	9th (11-13)	-	Don Shipway	Mark Davis	Mark Davis
1993	7th (14-12)	Quarter-Finalists	Don Monson	Mark Davis	Mark Davis
1994	4th (18-8)	Grand-Finalists	Mike Dunlap	Mark Davis	Robert Rose
1995	4th (17-9)	Semi-Finalists	Mike Dunlap	Mark Davis	Robert Rose
1996	6th (16-10)	Semi-Finalists	Mike Dunlap	Mark Davis	Rick Brunson
1997	7th (14-16)	-	Dave Claxton	Brett Maher	Brett Maher
1998	2nd (19-11)	CHAMPIONS	Phil Smyth	Brett Maher	Brett Maher/Darnell Mee
1998-99	1st (18-8)	CHAMPIONS	Phil Smyth	Brett Maher	Kevin Brooks
1999-00	1st (22-6)	Semi-Finalists	Phil Smyth	Brett Maher	Martin Cattalini
2000-01	6th (16-12)	Semi-Finalists	Phil Smyth	Brett Maher	Darnell Mee
2001-02	3rd (17-13)	CHAMPIONS	Phil Smyth	Brett Maher	Brett Maher**
2002-03	5th (16-14)	Elimination-Finalists	Phil Smyth	Brett Maher	Brett Maher
2003-04	8th (14-19)	Elimination-Finalists	Phil Smyth	Brett Maher	Martin Cattalini
2004-05	5th (19-13)	Quarter-Finalists	Phil Smyth	Brett Maher	Willie Farley
2005-06	4th (19-13)	Quarter-Finalists	Phil Smyth	Brett Maher	Brett Maher
2006-07	11th (11-22)	-	Phil Smyth	Brett Maher	Brett Maher
2007-08	9th (14-16)	-	Phil Smyth	Brett Maher	Adam Ballinger
2008-09	6th (15-15)	Elimination-Finalists	Scott Ninnis	Brett Maher	Adam Ballinger
2009-10	8th (10-18)	-	Scott Ninnis	Adam Ballinger	Adam Ballinger
2010-11	8th (9-19)	-	Marty Clarke	Adam Ballinger	Adam Ballinger

* Club and League MVP
** Club and League Grand Final MVP

Source: www.adelaide36ers.com

Current Roster

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Retired numbers

5 Brett Maher
33 Mark Davis

The 36ers currently only have two retired numbers. The are the #5 which belonged to games record holder Brett Maher and the other is #33 which was worn by Mark Davis throughout his NBL/36ers career. Previously the #4 of Darryl Pearce, who holds the record for most points in a single game as a 36er when he scored 48 against the Newcastle Falcons in 1988 and the #15 of star import guard Al Green who played 136 games for the club between 1985 and 1990 hung high at The Dome in Adelaide but were removed by the team owners. There is gathering support amongst local fans to have both Pearce and Green's numbers re-retired by the 36ers.

Famous players and fans

The 36ers have had many famous players in their history with Australian Boomers and/or Olympic Games representatives. Peter Ali, Darryl Pearce, Mark Bradtke, Mark Davis, Mike McKay, Brett Maher, Brett Wheeler and Phil Smyth all having played for the club along with former NBA players Luke Schenscher, Kevin Brooks, Jo Jo English, Rick Brunson, Darnell Mee, Robert Rose and Julius Hodge. Bradtke and Schenscher have played both for the Boomers and in the NBA.

Famous fans include television presenter Grant Denyer and former World Number 1 Tennis Player, Adelaide born Lleyton Hewitt.

References

External links

[1] ttp://www.nbl.com.au/36ers/corporate/sponsors/

[2] ttp://www.nba.com/nuggets/staff_directory/dunlap_bio.html

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