A basketball club battling a group of dog walkers over a western suburbs reserve it wants to be the site of a proposed indoor sports stadium has scored the support of teenage Australian NBA player Josh Giddey. | chloebooker
Australian NBA rookie Josh Giddey has backed a council proposal to build an indoor sports stadium on a western-suburbs reserve.Friends of McIvor Reserve argue a stadium on McIvor Reserve would cut down public land in the area.
Westgate Basketball Association president Jules Griffith says a new stadium is needed to provide basketball courts for a growing numbers of young players.The 19-year-old, who was drafted to Oklahoma City Thunder last year, wrote to Maribyrnong City Council offering his help to get the proposed six-court arena on Yarraville’s McIvor Reserve “over the line”.
The council has informed households that it is investigating future upgrades to the park, including the possibility of a stadium, and is due to deliver a proposed master plan next month.a stadium on the 17-hectare reserve, used for recreational sport, dog walking and as a playground, would cut down public land in an area already suffering a dearth of green space.
Yarraville residents fear an off-leash dog exercise area in the McIvor Reserve will be chosen by Maribyrnong City Council as the preferred location for an indoor sports stadium.Griffith said if a new stadium wasn’t built soon, basketball, futsal, volleyball and netball players would need to leave the inner-west to play youth sport or not play at all.
“I’m a very sad person,” she said. “It just it makes me very happy to be able to go to places and try to play basketball.”Youth organisation the Les Twentyman Foundation runs the 96ers basketball club. Youth worker Tekani Perry said many of the children came from families with financial issues, domestic violence or other stresses.
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