Six of the best for Aussie Bryce
BRYCE Cotton tonight moved within one Most Valuable Player win of forcing a name change onto the NBL's highest individual award to the "Andrew Gaze-Bryce Cotton MVP" after pipping Kendric Davis and claming his sixth crown, albeit his first as a "true blue" Aussie.
Mic drop? Er, no. Final is Fire-Lynx, as expected
CALL them pundits, experts, WNBL watchers but the truth is most everyone without a team-based bias had the Han Xu-boosted Perth Lynx playing Townsville Fire for the championship long ago, with only Kelsey Griffin's classy defending champion Bendigo Spirit also in the conversation as the "what if" possibility.
Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE: Who's winning the NBL awards?
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WHO are the favourites to take the lion's share of the NBL's awards on Monday? Joey Wright and I select our choices for everything from MVP to Coach of the Year to Best Defensive at our Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE podcast this week, while also reviewing the run into the playoffs.
Brad&Boti: WNBL semis and NBL pointy end
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IT'S semi final time in the WNBL but there was no surprise in either of the Game 1s in the best-of-three series between Townsville and Southside or Perth-Bendigo but there was plenty to contemplate from the penultimate NBL regular season round, so Brad Rosen and I did that at our Brad&Boti podcast.
Timms joins legends for "Bigger than basketball"
A Naismith Hall of Famer and three-time Olympian, four NBL champions, an All-Star big man, four of the most decorated, respected and colourful referees in Australian basketball history and a well-known Melbourne-based media personality are among the latest names to get behind this month’s Legends of Basketball Game for Bowel Cancer.
Brad&Boti: At last! We can say We told You!
PODCAST partner Brad Rosen and I were feeling pretty chuffed this week, having long ago locked away the correct WNBL and NBL playoff teams and also selected Isobel Borlase to waltz home with the women's MVP. But that's just the tip of the iceberg of this week's Brad&Boti podcast.
AFL State-of-Origin ill-conceived, as usual
CRITICISING the mighty AFL always runs the very real risk of those wiser than I reminding me to "stay in your lane" but as a strong supporter of State-of-Origin footy, I can't believe what the league is about to serve up in Perth on Saturday with its Victoria-WA revisit.
Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE: Bogey, Goorj drawing off-court attention
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HOW much of a fuss should the tweet on X by Andrew Bogut really have created? Was Bogey stirring trouble or drawing attention to a crisis in Adelaide? Should there have been a crisis meeting? Joey Wright and I work our way through it at this week's Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE podcast.
Awards night a giant success for WNBL
BENDIGO Spirit guard and Paris Olympian Isobel Borlase tonight added to her growing list of accolades when she won the WNBL's Most Valuable Player award. In the process she joined Kristi Harrower (2010), Anneli Maley (2022) and Sami Whitcomb (2025) as only the club's fourth league MVP recipient.


