Basketball: Tigers withdraw from ANBL season

MELBOURNE - The Melbourne Tigers have become the latest club to announce they are withdrawing from the upcoming Australian National Basketball League season.

The Tigers board met on Monday morning, with chief executive Seamus McPeake saying later that the club felt the current Basketball Australia (BA) model for the proposed revamped competition was "clearly unsustainable".

The Tigers' decision followed the announcement by reigning champions the South Dragons on Friday that they were also withdrawing, although both Melbourne clubs said they wanted to rejoin the competition in 2010.

BA will announce on Tuesday whether the new league will go ahead as scheduled starting in October.

The Tigers' withdrawal now leaves any revamped competition without any teams in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane.

- AAP