Do the Taipans deserve a place in the revamped NBL?
Post your comment below or vote in our online poll.Cairns Basketball president Denis Donaghy has become president of the new Taipans, with Adrian Garrone secretary, Greg Lennon treasurer and Robert Wallace and Craig Hartman board members.”It’s one more box ticked, so that’s terrific,” Donaghy said of the election of the board and decision to incorporate.”We’ll file those papers on Monday morning, we’ve spoken to the liquidator about using the (Taipans) name.”But we’re a couple of more steps along the way now to ticking all of the boxes to being there.”Attention will now be turned towards securing the $1 million bank guarantee the Taipans need to push forward with an expression of interest to Basketball Australia to join the new competition.”The next step – and it’s a pretty major one – is securing the $1 million guarantee and we have a meeting this week to move that process along,” Mr Donaghy said.”We also have to finalise meetings with the major sponsors, to do a season ticket survey
