They did avoid their second straight last place finish only because the returning Sydney Kings finished with an 8–20 record. Under Phil Smyth, Adelaide were beaten Elimination-Finalists in both 2002–03 and 2003–04. Elton Brand Signs Multiyear Extension, Daryl Morey To Be Introduced Monday, RealGM Radio: Dan Feldman On The Offseason, Raptors Discuss Using Newark's Prudential Center As Temporary Home Next Season, Dunc'd On: Big Free Agency Outlooks: Atlanta, Chicago, and Toronto, Omer Yurtseven Is Embracing The Long Wait For The Draft, Prospect Report: Killian Hayes Of Ratiopharm Ulm. Sportsworld didn't have the vocabulary to talk about someone like Daryl Morey when the Rockets made him GM in 2007, and it hasn't really developed one all these years later as he heads to Philadelphia. In 2012 the NBL announced that the 1986 Adelaide 36ers were voted as the greatest single season team in league history. The 36ers, on the other hand, now have no hope of an unlikely surge into the playoffs as their record drops to 8-17. The 2000–01 season was also the last for longtime Adelaide favourite and former club captain Mark Davis who retired from playing after 482 NBL games, all with the Adelaide 36ers. During a time out of Game 1 at the Powerhouse, Dunlap had instructed Chris Blakemore to basically belt the next Perth player who went through the key. Dunlap had also been in hot water over an incident in the 1995 Semi-finals against Perth. Fox was replaced by the club's long-time assistant coach Don Shipway who coached the team from 1990–1992. However, rumours had been circulating around Adelaide that former NCAA college coach Dunlap preferred to coach younger players who still could be taught and didn't get along very well with the team's older players, which led to the departures of Mike McKay (Brisbane), Phil Smyth (Sydney) and Robert Rose (Canberra). Bradtke had been signed by Ken Cole in 1986 as a 6'8" (203 cm) 16 year with more growing to come. 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. However their road form wasn't so good and they dropped to 9th on the table with an 11–13 record. While Cole was a coach who was high on motivating his players, Fox ran a much more stringent operation and the free-flowing 36ers of 1985 and 1986 became far more structured, much to the dismay of Al Green and Mike McKay who preferred a more free flowing offence. However, it was not as simple as it looked. They did avoid their second straight last place finish only because the returning Sydney Kings finished with an 8–20 record. Bullets 119 (OT) @ Brisbane Entertainment Centre Ninnis, who made his NBL debut in 1985, had been part of the 1986 championship squad. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed. Team: 36ers (Australia) (2020-21) Nationality: Australian. The 2015–16 season saw the 36ers sign import point guard Jerome Randle to replace Kenyon McNeail, who sustained an injury and left after three games, while the team also acquired young guard Nathan Sobey from the Cairns Taipans. In December 2016, Adelaide businessman, Grant Kelley, joined the Adelaide 36ers as majority shareholder, before becoming outright owner of the club in March 2017. Captain Brett Maher was voted the Grand Final MVP and coach Phil Smyth had his second championship in two years of coaching. The first head coach of the Adelaide City Eagles in 1982 was Mike Osborne, who would coach the team (renamed the Adelaide 36ers in 1983) until the end of the 1984 season. In 1998 Smyth became the first rookie coach since Brian Kerle in the league's inaugural season (1979) to win an NBL championship, thought unlike Kerle, Smyth had limited previous senior coaching experience. Titans 94 @ National Tennis Centre The 36ers final game at their original home was a 102–99 semi-final loss to the Perth Wildcats in 1991. 1985 would see Al Green set a single season points per game record for the 36ers when he scored 31.0 ppg in 28 games played (the record still stands as of 2016–17). The renamed Titanium Security Arena is currently the sixth-largest venue used in the National Basketball League behind the 18,200 seat Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, the 14,856 seat Perth Arena, the 14,500 capacity Brisbane Entertainment Centre, the 10,500 seat Hisense Arena in Melbourne, and the 9,300 seat Vector Arena in Auckland. Adelaide had played at the Apollo Stadium since the team's inception in 1982. [18], * Club and League MVP** Club and League Grand Final MVP. In 2017-18 the Adelaide 36ers' major partners were Pathion, Scouts, Ananda, Goodlife and Villi's. In the Grand Final they would be up against the South East Melbourne Magic where they would win the club's first championship since 1986 defeating the Magic 2–0, winning Game 1 100–93 at home and Game 2 90–62 at Melbourne Park. Perth had emerged from the doldrums of previous years and were the emerging power team in the NBL. However, despite the change, for the third season running the team had earned a bye to the semi-finals where this time they would face the Perth Wildcats who were in their first ever playoffs. On the occasion of his last home game against the New Zealand Breakers in front of an overflow crowd of more than 8,000 fans, the main court at The Dome was renamed the Brett Maher Court. Magic 93 @ Clipsal Powerhouse The 36ers were undefeated at home during the regular season going 13–0, the first time a club had gone unbeaten at home in league history. Game 3 - 36ers 80 def. After winning the Grand Final MVP award in 1986, Mark Davis would continue to have a major impact on the NBL when he jointly won the league's MVP award with Brisbane's Leroy Loggins. The 36ers are the only team in the league representing the state of South Australia and are based in the state's capital of Adelaide. Also joining the club was NBA Draft prospect, 18-year-old high school star from Tulsa, Oklahoma named Terrance Ferguson, a 6'7" (201 cm) shooting guard who joined Adelaide rather than commit to playing college basketball. The emergence of 6'11" (212 cm) centre Daniel Johnson as a scoring and rebounding threat (he led the club in scoring for both seasons and led the NBL with 8 rebounds per game in 2012–13), the signing of former Gold Coast Blaze players Adam Gibson, Anthony Petrie and Jason Cadee, and the emergence of exciting young Victorian Swingman and crowd favourite Mitch Creek (who suffered a season ending Achilles tendon injury in mid-2012–13), gave fans hope for the future. This record still stands as of the 2016 NBL Grand Final. The results were as follows:[20]. [1] Since 2019, the 36ers play their home games at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. Claxton, who was only signed by the club at the last moment due to unexpectedly losing Mike Dunlap, was only signed for one season as head coach and following the 1997 season was replaced by rookie coach and former player Phil Smyth (it was incorrectly believed that Claxton had been sacked). This team was known as the Adelaide City Eagles when they joined the NBL in 1982. [3], The Adelaide 36ers team mascot is Murray the Magpie. Adelaide def. They then defeated the Melbourne Tigers 2-1 in their Semi-final series before going down 2-1 in the Grand Final series to their long time nemesis Perth who won their record 6th NBL championship. Omer Yurtseven probably won't know until fairly late into the night if he'll be one of them. 27-year-old import centre Bill Jones replaced Peter Ali as captain and 6'6" (199 cm) former import forward (now a naturalised Australian citizen) Dwayne Nelson returned to the team after a year away, 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 (as of 2016–17 this is the only time a 36ers coach has won the award). By the end of the 1991 NBL season, Adelaide was one of only 5 teams in the league (there were 14) who did not have a home venue that could hold at least 5,000 fans, and it was the only state capital based team (other than the unrepresented Darwin) not to have a home venue that could hold at least 5,200 fans. The club hired Dunlap's assistant and former Gold Coast Rollers coach Dave Claxton as his replacement for the 1997 NBL season. Before this they were the West End 36ers (as in West End Brewery) during their first title year (1986) while also taking various names from West End products including being known for a time during the 1990s as the Eagle Super 6ers. Experience the film on the big screen & have a drink with champions such as Al "Mean Machine" Green and Mark “Chairman of the Boards” Davis. Mark Bradtke and Mike McKay would go on to represent Australia at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. 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.

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