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Brad&Boti: We interview SEM's "The Glove"
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THE NBL Championship Series continues on Friday with Game 2 in the best-of-five Grand Finals so Brad Rosen and I had plenty to discuss at this week's Brad&Boti podcast. But, EVEN better, we had a special guest join the episode with South East Melbourne Phoenix's Angus Glover talking basketball with us.
Mickey Mouse media makes mountains out of mud
GET this. Apparently, according to the media, there was a "fiery aftermath" to Game 1 of the NBL Championship in Sydney on Saturday night, TV talking head Derek Rucker even describing it as "... we've got chaos in front of us." Chaos? Really? Because Nick Rakocevic refuses to shake Andrew Bogut's hand?
Shell-shocked Sixers have a slight way back
MAKE no mistake. Game 2 of the NBL Championship Series on Friday in Adelaide will be a different story to the one Sydney told so brutally on Saturday as it set a Grand Final winning margin record of 44 points over Mike Wells' overwhelmed and extremely underwhelming 36ers.
Kings crush 36er dreams in record Game 1 rout
MANY NBL fans and "experts" shook their heads in dismay when league champion and dual MVP Chris Anstey predicted the Sydney Kings would sweep Adelaide for the 2026 championship. Tonight, after the calamitous Game 1 slaughter at Qudos Bank Arena in which Tim Soares shone, those same talking heads were ducking for cover.
Brad&Boti: Opals, Sami, Ken, the Kings and 36ers
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THE Opals have stamped their imprimatur at the FIBA World Cup qualifiers, the Sydney Kings and Adelaide 36ers will battle it out for the NBL's 2026 championship and Brad Rosen and I also talk about the death of basketball icon Ken Cole in this week's Brad&Boti podcast.
Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE: Who will be the kings of 2026?
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WE'VE said it all year - that Adelaide had the personnel to reach the NBL Grand Final and Sydney Kings the depth to trouble them, and now we have it - the Championship Series so many people wanted. Joey Wright and I go to work on it at our Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE podcast.
Play it again Sami as Opals go 5-0
FORMER Adelaide Lightning WNBL import Kayla Alexander turned in a blinder for Canada at the FIBA World Cup Qualifying series in Turkey, but it still wasn't quite enough to stall the rampaging Opals, players such as Chloe Bibby relishing extended minutes in the absence of two starters.
DJ on song as 36ers storm into Final
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THE NBL's undisputed 2026 MVP, Bryce Cotton, compiled a whopping 109 points in Adelaide's three-game advance to the best-of-five Grand Finals, in the process eliminating South East Melbourne Phoenix at Adelaide Entertainment Centre. But Dejan Vasiljevic's contribution was inestimable.
Aussies escape Turkish inferno to go 4-0
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BUOYED by the rousing support of its home crowd and playing arguably its best game of the FIBA World Cup Qualifiers, Turkey pushed Australia to the limit before Sami Whitcomb, Alanna Smith, Steph Talbot, Alex Wilson and a cameo by Cayla George steered the Opals to a thrilling 77-74 win.
Opals secure winning hat-trick at Qualifiers
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A CRUDE unsportsmanlike foul by Hungary's Petra Toman against Opals forward Alanna Smith acted as the catalyst to send Australia rolling away to a comfortable 71-58 victory in Turkey at the FIBA World Cup Qualifying tournament, the USF spurring a match-winning run that broke open the contest.
