Basketball Australia’s decision to abandon managing the country’s longest-running interstate league is an absolute disgrace.

BA informed SEABL clubs that it would not sanction the league continuing in its own right, spelling the death knell for a competition which was operating under Lindsay Gaze's guidance from 1965 as the South Eastern Conference.

This will kill the hopes and dreams of thousands of Outer Suburban and Regionally based teams, administrations, volunteers, supporters and children.