Melbourne Tigers Junior Basketball Club
The Melbourne Tigers Junior Basketball Club was founded by Ken Watson, who coached the Australian Olympic team in the 1956 Olympics Games in Melbourne. Ken Watson is also credited with introducing Lindsay Gaze to Basketball and the club.
The club is based at the inner Melbourne suburb of Albert Park and fields teams for both Girls and Boys from Under 12's to Under 20's. This means it is the only club in Australia where a player can start playing in Under 12's and develop all the way up to the National Basketball League (NBL), as Andrew Gaze did.
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