While an NBL hub is a realistic possibility this year due to the impacts of COVID-19, Tasmania JackJumpers chief executive Simon Brookhouse has conceded right now it would be difficult for Tasmania to have hosting rights for one.
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The competition is scheduled to start next month in what will be the JackJumpers' debut season, and while Brookhouse conceded the team would need to be "agile" and be able to play wherever and whenever was needed, starting off life by hosting a hub would not be easy.
"It would be very difficult,'' he said.
"The challenge to bring effectively 300 people into the one place with quarantine rules [would be tough] and as it is there is a lot a real strain on the Tasmania's quarantine hotels and there is a real push to get Tasmanians home. It is important to realise if we could do something like that it would need to be something that would be worked through in a lot of depth."
But Brookhouse believed the fact the JackJumpers had an experienced team with players who have played across the world would help the club cope with whatever was thrown at them.
The JackJumpers on Friday celebrated their first birthday, with Brookhouse saying there had certainly been a lot more highs than lows during their first year.
The fact players were now on court training in preparation for the season's start had made everything seem so much more real.
One of those players is US import Josh Magette who has completed the JackJumpers' playing roster.
He said he fit into coach Scott Roth's mantra of building a team of scrappers.
"We don't have too high of expectations coming into this season, so I think hopefully we are going to be able to surprise a lot of people and compete and play at a high level,'' Magette said.
Roth said it was an incredible milestone to have all 15 JackJumpers in one place.
"I am very proud of the fact that these guys are going to mesh very well together, they are great guys and they are going to represent the state fantastically,'' he said.
"They are all excited to be here and they all want to be here in Tasmania which was huge for me."