The Gold Coast Rollers are a defunct

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team from

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that competed in the National Basketball League (NBL). The team entered the NBL in

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as the Gold Coast Cougars, but for the

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, they were renamed the Rollers. The team was one of only two teams from the state of

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when it first joined the NBL (the Brisbane Bullets being the other). The Rollers were one of three teams (the

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and the Hobart Devils being the other two) that had their NBL licences revoked by the league following the 1996 season due to financial difficulties.

Honour roll

Season by season

References

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