As a lifelong basketball fan it’s been just awesome watching our latest Australian team The Boomers play in the Tokyo Olympics at the moment.
I grew up playing basketball in South Western Sydney back in the 90’s, during the peak time of basketball in our country Michael Jordan was a global superstar and locally it was the great Andrew Gaze.
It was easy to fall in love with the sport back then with basketball taking off across half courts across the country.
I guess the biggest moment back then as a young fan was watching our Australian Boomers with Andrew Gaze taking on the great USA Dream Team. That famous moment of a young Shane Heal chest bumping American Charles Barkley pretty much sealed The Boomers as my favorite sporting team and I’m sure it had a similar effect on many other young hoopers in Australia.
Since then I’ve been lucky to become a photographer and shoot many great Boomers players past and present during their time in the NBL. One of my big bucket list items is to one day photograph the Aussie team in action and hopefully I’ll get the chance one day.
Until then these are some of my favorite pictures of some of the current and former team members including Andrew Bogut and Chicago Bulls champion Luc Longley during his time at the Sydney Kings.
The future of Basketball is bright in Australia and hopefully I’ll get the chance to shoot more of our Boomer players in time. Until then Go Boomers!!!
Til next time
Chris
Chasing Light by Chris Lane 