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NBL teams deserve banners

Hopefully the Cairns Taipans formally retiring the singlet number of club legend Aaron Grabau will be a sign of things to come.

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January 8, 2020 - 4:37PM
The Cairns Post
Cairns Taipans Legend Aaron Grabau was feted on his retirement after playing 405 games for the club before the Round 12 NBL match between the Cairns Taipans and the Adelaide 36ers at the Cairns Convention Centre in Cairns, Sunday, December 22, 2019. (AAP Image/Brian Cassey).
Cairns Taipans Legend Aaron Grabau was feted on his retirement after playing 405 games for the club before the Round 12 NBL match between the Cairns Taipans and the Adelaide 36ers at the Cairns Convention Centre in Cairns, Sunday, December 22, 2019. (AAP Image/Brian Cassey).

Hopefully the Cairns Taipans formally retiring the singlet number of club legend Aaron Grabau will be a sign of things to come.

While former players’ numbers like Grabau’s may well go into the rafters as well in the near future – his former teammates such as Alex Loughton and Anthony Stewart, among a few others, are the obvious choices – team success should be an option to hang from the roof.

Cairns Taipans Legend Aaron Grabau was feted on his retirement after playing 405 games for the club before the Round 12 NBL match between the Cairns Taipans and the Adelaide 36ers at the Cairns Convention Centre in Cairns, Sunday, December 22, 2019. (AAP Image/Brian Cassey)
Cairns Taipans Legend Aaron Grabau was feted on his retirement after playing 405 games for the club before the Round 12 NBL match between the Cairns Taipans and the Adelaide 36ers at the Cairns Convention Centre in Cairns, Sunday, December 22, 2019. (AAP Image/Brian Cassey)

The grand finals team from the 2010-11 and 2014-15 seasons deserve to be recognised in the rafters along with the minor premiers milestone from 2014-15.

Cairns Taipans Legend Aaron Grabau looks to the big screen as he was feted on his retirement after playing 405 games for the club before the Round 12 NBL match between the Cairns Taipans and the Adelaide 36ers at the Cairns Convention Centre in Cairns, Sunday, December 22, 2019. (AAP Image/Brian Cassey)
Cairns Taipans Legend Aaron Grabau looks to the big screen as he was feted on his retirement after playing 405 games for the club before the Round 12 NBL match between the Cairns Taipans and the Adelaide 36ers at the Cairns Convention Centre in Cairns, Sunday, December 22, 2019. (AAP Image/Brian Cassey)

Plenty of other NBL teams and NBA clubs will raise banners for winning their division or reaching a grand final.

History has to be visible, as I was told recently; families should be able to walk in there for games and point up to those banners.

Originally published as NBL teams deserve banners

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