NBL Rewind | 1980 Grand Final – St Kilda Saints vs West Adelaide Bearcats

He averaged 14 points over 381 games but never won an NBL Championship or even more surprising, never made a Boomers squad, despite being of the league’s top scorers in 2001, when he averaged 25 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists per game as a member of the Brisbane Bullets.

The Brisbane Bullets are an Australian professional men’s basketball team in the National Basketball League (NBL) based in Brisbane, Queensland. They competed from 1979 to 2008, and returned to the league in 2016.

From a playing career which commenced in “C” Grade club basketball with Oxley Club in 1965, Brian Kerle played with the Lang Park Club in the Brisbane “A” grade competition and from there he was recruited by Melbourne’s St. Kilda Club in June 1967.

Brian represented Australia in basketball at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and was the Assistant coach of the Australian Boomers team at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 (team included Luc Longley, Andrew Gaze, Mark Bradke).

Queenslander Kerle headed south to Melbourne in the Sixties to better himself as a ball player because at that time, the VBA competition was the best in Australia.