From 1998 to 2000, Hobba played in the State Basketball League (SBL) for the Goldfields Giants.
[1] Between 2001 and 2005, he played four years of college basketball in the United States for Colorado Christian University.
[3] Hobba spent the 2005–06 NBL season as a development player with the Perth Wildcats.
[5] Between 2006 and 2014, Hobba played in the Big V and South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) for the Dandenong Rangers.
Hobba was a member of the Australian U18 National Team in 2000 that played at the Albert Schweitzer Junior Championships in Mannheim, Germany.