Live stream: How to watch the Basketball Australia Under-18 National Club Championships

The best club sides from across Australia are heading to the Wild West to fight it out to be crowned national champions. Find out who is in action and how to watch every game LIVE.

The best young ballers are taking over the courts this September for a massive two weeks of national tournaments.

KommunityTV will be at the centre of all the action as the best junior ballers at both ends of their junior club journey take to the court to be crowned the best in the country.

First up we’re heading west for the inaugural HoopsFest, with KommunityTV joining forces with Basketball Australia to showcase every match from the inaugural Under-18 Club Championships from September 17-22.

With 32 club sides and more than 300 athletes from across the nation, the tournament will be a fantastic preview of the future for basketball fans in town to cheer on the NBL and Aussie Opals sides.

Then the following week KommunityTV returns from the Wild West to be courtside for the Under-14 Club Championships in Casey from September 22-27.

HOW TO WATCH

There are two main ways to watch the Under-18 National Club Championships in 2024.

KommunityTV will run every court’s live stream in an individual story on each day of the tournament. The links for those stories will appear above.

The replays from that court will then be added to the same story link at the end of each day’s play.

Alternatively you can head to www.kommunitytv.com.au when the tournament is on, and use the video player at the top of the site to watch all the action live and scroll through the most recent replays.

Make sure to check out the streaming schedule below to find out when your team is playing.

Only News Corp full digital subscribers will have exclusive access to watch the action.

LIVE STREAM SCHEDULE

WHICH CLUBS ARE IN ACTION?

WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR

The Under-18 Club Championships will prove to be the great unknown.

With the timing outside of school holidays, it’s yet to be seen which players will make the trek over the Wild West to compete for their club sides.

Western Australia has a strong presence in the tournament with a strong contingent of local clubs ready to take up the fight against their interstate rivals.

That includes the Rio Tinto Wildcats Academy in the boys tournament. The Academy squad is full of the best young talent in Western Australia including Charlie and Max Dimmock, Timothy Ibukunoluwa and towering 225cm viral giant Jongkuch Mach.

The boys tournament also features perennial Victorian heavyweights Dandenong Rangers and Knox Raiders as well as clubs from the ACT, Tasmania and South Australia.

Melbourne Tigers have had a big presence in the Victoria Metro junior representative ranks in recent years.

In the girls draw it will be the Victorian contingent aiming to make the biggest splash in Perth.

The Victorian teams will include proud junior nurseries Melbourne Tigers and Sandringham Sabres who both have strong women’s programs from the juniors right through to the NBL1 South.

They will come up against an impressively stacked Canberra line-up as well as NSW contenders Hills Hornets and Norths Bears, the latter crowned Division 2 champions in the Warartah Junior Metro League this year.

In terms of home grown talents, Joondalup Wolves, Rockingham Flames, Warwick Senators, Perry Lakes Hawks, Lakeside Lightning, Cockburn Cougars and Binar will fly the flag for Western Australia.