Basketball: Family, barbecues and summer a slam dunk for NBL ratings

Did touch on just before those ratings in the NBL.

So we're in round five at the moment.

They just moved from, for free to air perspective, from channel 10 to channel nine.

So you can still kind of watch the NBL through pay TV with ESPN.

You can hear it in South Australia as well as our coverage of the Adelaide 36s.

But it was a pretty big move for the NBL who continue to grow in terms of their crowd numbers and the broadcast ones and viewership certainly jumped as well.

So last year's game five championship decider on 10. reached 559,000 Australians.

And already, round threes match up Melbourne United and the Cairns Taipans on Channel 9, 910.

So they've nearly doubled their viewership by jumping across networks.

It's a massive result.

Their biggest rating in what is the 12-year reign of Larry Kesselman's era.

And the man alongside him has kind of essentially been putting it all together and making sure that the ship is...

Steered pretty correctly is their CEO and he's always happy for a chat on Summer Grandstand on ABC Sport as well.

David Stevenson is my guest on the program.

He's been good enough to jump on the line today.