Roydhouse would have preferred to avoid the limelight but was happy to answer questions when the Otago Daily Times contacted him for comment yesterday.
He was, he said, just one of a number of people who had emerged from the woodwork to help BBO negotiate a settlement with its creditors.
BBO ceased trading in October, having accumulated a debt of just under $179,000. Liquidation appeared inevitable and a special general meeting was scheduled for Tuesday night, where members were to have voted on whether to appoint a liquidator or not.
However, that meeting was cancelled in a joint press release from Sport Otago and Basketball New Zealand which stated there was ''a very strong likelihood'' BBO would avoid liquidation following a promising meeting with ''a representative of some Dunedin entities''.
Sport Otago community sports adviser Alan Nicholls has not responded to interview requests since issuing the press release on Monday evening.
''I do know a few details, but I also understand that there are valid reasons why those details can't be made public at this stage,'' Roydhouse said.
''There has been quite a lot of uncertainty and that is one aspect which has concerned me for the wider basketball public.
''I've felt that they should really receive an assurance to say basketball as they know it will be much the same this year as it was last year. That is the first thing they need to know.''
Roydhouse's motivation comes through ''years of active involvement'' in the sport. He played senior basketball for 20 years for the Ajax and St Kilda clubs and represented Otago.
His son, Aaron, is a candidate for Otago's under-19 representative programme and was a member of the Otago Boys' High School team which won the New Zealand schools title last year.
While his son was helping Otago Boys' win, Roydhouse was helping Kavanagh College claim the small schools title.
He was the assistant coach of that team.
Roydhouse said the next step was for BBO to form a new board and then to negotiate a settlement with its creditors.
The organisation has effectively been in limbo since its annual general meeting in November, but that status could be resolved as early as tomorrow.
''Basketball New Zealand can't keep on doing it [running basketball in Otago] from long range ... so I guess that is partly why I've put my hand up.''
