Perth has long-coveted a Next Star but never found the right fit. That’s all changed with the impending arrival of French giant Alex Sarr. MICHAEL RANDALL looks at how the Wildcats got the deal done.
The Wildcats saw the potential in Ben Henshall at a very early age.
It’s why they tried to convince the Perth native to join the club as a development player before the start of last season, when he was just 17.
But the boom Aussie guard, at the time fresh off leading WA Metro to U18 National Championships gold and in the midst of a scholarship at the elite Centre of Excellence, decided to bet on himself.
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He believed another year of rapid development under the tutelage of Robbie McKinlay and the CoE team in Canberra would help him convince an NBL club to give him a full contract and…