Basketball NSW (BNSW) hosted their 2026 Annual Awards last weekend on Sunday the 8th of November 2026. The festivities were back at the Afterpay Arena ahead of the Sydney Flames and Sydney Kings Double Header. It was an incredible afternoon of celebrating basketball in our state where your association CBBA brought home two major awards.
We are incredibly excited to announce CBBA are the 2026 winners of the Chairman’s Award - Association of the Year and Referee Program of the Year (<3000 Members).
Two years in a row, CBBA have been awarded the Referee Program of the Year. The team led by Adam McIntyre continue do amazing work to cover games across our representative and domestic competition programs. 2026 was another year of growth with over 50 active referees putting on their whistle every week. 33 of those took the court to referee the 2026 Waratah League Season including eight making their representative referee debut. The CBBA Referee Program had countless amount of referee upgrades and an endless amount of features amongst BNSW High Performance Programs and Challenges. We are honoured to be back-to-back winners of this award and we cannot thank Adam and the team enough for their commitment to the CBBA Referee Program. Congratulations to everyone involved.
CBBA are now a two-time winner of the BNSW Chairman’s Award - the Association of the Year. The highest of honours at the awards selected by BNSW, this award recognised CBBA’s contribution to basketball in NSW and the work we have done to support our community and the City of Blacktown. The team at CBBA are incredibly proud of this acknowledgement and grateful to our community for their ongoing support.
“It is an honour to receive the 2026 Basketball NSW Chairman’s Award. Thank you to Basketball NSW for its ongoing support, and to Lisa Yen for this recognition. Our second Chairman’s Award in three years is a humbling tribute to the hard work and dedication of our players, families, staff, directors, coaches, referees, technical officials and volunteers, and a testament to the consistency they deliver year on year. Thank you to our entire community for making CBBA what it is today. The best is yet to come.” Says CBBA General Manager, Lachlan Arford.
A special shoutout to 2026 Blacktown Storm Youth League Men player, Jamaal Osikoya for being awarded the BNSW State Team of the Year as a player on the U20 NSW State Championship Team. Congratulations to Jamaal and the team.
For the full recap of the 2026 BNSW Annual Awards, read here.
