Ownership
In April 2006 the 36ers, the Adelaide Lightning WNBL team and the teams home venue, the Distinctive Homes Dome (now the Adelaide Arena), went up for sale due to mishandling of debt owed to the government by the then owner BASA. On 25 July 2006, a consortium of Mal Hemmerling & Eddie Groves bought the Adelaide 36ers & the Distinctive Homes Dome for $3.95 million - with Mal Hemmerling in place as owner of the 36ers and Eddie Groves as the owner of the stadium. The money for the sale went to the government to wipe out the debt owed by BASA. BASA is now defunct and replaced by Basketball SA - focused solely on all Basketball in SA and no one competition.
In June 2009 Mal Hemmerling sold the team to a group of 8 individuals led by new Club Chairman Mark Lewis and new Club CEO Ben Fitzsimons called the Save Our Sixers Consortium.
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