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THE WNBL’s 2023-24 Season tips off tonight – yes, we realise you probably didn’t know because the outstanding women’s league is Basketball Australia’s best kept secret – and for our Brad&Boti podcast with Brad Rosen and I, we secured arguably the GOAT of Australian point guards, Kristi Harrower for a special preview show.

(OK, let’s not debate who is our greatest Opals’ PG because we have Michele Timms and Kristi on the same pedestal – and we didn’t mind Jenny Cheesman back in the day either.)

But Kristi’s career is one of great success as a three-time WNBL champion and a multiple Opals Olympian, starting at Sydney in 2000.

So was winning the Gold at the 2006 FIBA World Cup her greatest international success?

Well, maybe it is on par with being a key member of Australia’s 1993 team at the FIBA World Under-19 Championship.

That amazing team, coached by Ray Tomlinson,  is the first male, female, senior or junior team to ever claim a Gold Medal at a Worlds for Australia and, as such, remains our most successful trailblazing outfit.

Kristi also has been a trailblazer, her career including stints on both the Continent and in the WNBA but it is in the green ‘n’ gold she most has excelled.

Now progressing into coaching, she has been running her own NBL1 programs and is working alongside multiple-WNBL championship-winner Chris Lucas at Melbourne Boomers.

The season hits the ground running tonight when Kristi (and Chris’) first WNBL club Adelaide Lightning hosts Melbourne at Adelaide 36ers Arena so her views on who to watch and which clubs to watch out for could not be more pertinent.

Kristi is without question one of our game’s all-time greats, so to have her on the show was a buzz for both Brad and I. Hopefully, listeners also will be delighted to hear her and to do so, simply click this link or go to Apple Podcasts.