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Suns blow a shining opportunity

AT home in Phoenix, the Suns wasted a golden opportunity to jump straight to the NBA Finals when they lost 102-116 to the LA Clippers, despite nursing a 3-1 best-of-five series lead.

(NBA Wrap with BOB CRAVEN)

Losing my Religion. Bye, Sam, Isaac, Alex

PODCAST colleague and friend Brad Rosen and I like to banter about our long-standing affiliations to our NBL clubs - Sydney Kings and Adelaide 36ers respectively - but I can honestly (and sadly) confirm I have absolutely zero affinity for the Sixers of this era.

Bob's Corner: Now Suns cop a little clip

BOB'S CORNER: Our man in the USA, Bob Craven, is all over the NBA Conference Finals in this week's visit Stateside, and the Ben Simmons backlash in Philadelphia where the 76ers were booed off court. He's also got the latest on USA Basketball's men's team for the Tokyo Olympics and its 3x3 women's team for the Games.

United sweeps wounded Wildcats for title #2

MELBOURNE United tonight became a dual-NBL champion when it delivered the final telling blow 81-76 to a gallant Perth Wildcats, sweeping their best-of-five Grand Final Series 3-0.

B&B: We come to the Mountain

DEAN Uthoff terrorised the NBL playing landscape for most of 1983 to 1996, an American import standing at an imposing 208cm and weighing 122kg, most of which was rippling muscle. As Brad Rosen and I found with this week's Brad&Boti podcast, fearsome Dean was actually a gentle giant.

Basketball SA Hall of Fame inductees: Boti Nagy

WELL this was certainly the most humbling experience in my life as a basketball lover, writer, and aficionado - learning of my own induction into the BASKETBALL SA Hall of Fame within its Class of 2021.

Wildcats amazing, but this is over

WITH a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five NBL Grand Final series and both wins on the road in Perth, Melbourne has assured itself of a second NBL championship, but wow, the Wildcats have covered themselves in glory.

Bob's Corner: Jazz cop a clip

BOB'S CORNER: Aussie and Boomers star Joe Ingles has had to mostly watch a dramatic turnaround in Game 6 as his Utah Jazz were despatched from the NBA Playoffs by a Kawhi Leonard-less LA Clippers, our US correspondent BOB CRAVEN all over it in this week's round-up.

Basketball SA Hall of Fame inductees: David Gould

ONE of the state's greatest but most unheralded players, David Gould, is the latest inductee in the Class of 2021 bound for the BASKETBALL SA Hall of Fame on Friday, July 9 at the Stamford Grand.

Brave, bold but beaten, not bowed

MAKE no bones about it. Defending NBL champion Perth was battered, brave, bold and even brilliant, but also ultimately beaten, leaving little doubt Melbourne United now is unbackable for the 2021 championship.