Wildcats claim Cup - and you're surprised?
PERTH Wildcats, the most successful pro franchise in Australian team sport, today completed the journey to claim the $150,000 first prize and the inaugural NBL Cup ... leaving many wondering why there was even any doubt it would.
NBL Cup Rd.4: Wildcats no wild card
IT looks like the NBL Cup will close on something resembling a league-wide rivalry round, with Perth Wildcats now in the boxseat to add the $150,000 first prize to the club's long list of plunder and booty.
Brad&Boti: Vickers giving credit where it's due
FORMER Sydney Kings captain Brad Rosen and I managed to score dual-NBL championship-winning head coach Dean Vickerman for this week's Brad&Boti podcast and he took us to many interesting places.
NBL21 TotW Rd.8: Here they come again!
CONGRATULATIONS and exhultations of the highest order are overdue for the Brisbane Bullets who this NBL Cup round became our first multiple winner of our highly-coveted "Team of the Week" accolade.
NBL Cup Rd.3: The Heat is On .. for 4 to 6 Weeks
ROUND 3 of the NBL Cup "Big Show" has multiple contenders for "match of the round" with the heat squarely on several teams missing key injured personnel.
Brad&Boti: Joey Wright tells all
WE scored a coup with Brad Rosen this week, interviewing former Adelaide 36ers, Gold Coast Blaze and Brisbane Bullets NBL coach Joey Wright for our Brad&Boti podcast, and he's talking about anything and everything you want to know.
NBL21 TotW Rd.6: #1 with a Bullet
A WEEK is a long time in sport and it is certainly proving so in NBL21, with this round's stand-out team last week looking headed for the scrapheap, this week No.1 with a bullet.
NBL Cup 2: Bye bye Taipans, 36ers
IT'S a sad day for Taipans fans but the reality is that once again, the boys in orange could not back up a good NBL season and, while we're at it, how awful is Adelaide's worst basketball?
NBL Cup Rd.2: Seasons riding on this Cup round
THRILLERS, upsets, chillers and killers - Round 1 of the NBL Cup had it all, including some monumental fadeouts and flounderings that have a few clubs now teetering on the brink of irrelevance.
NBL21 TotW: We're wild about these guys
EAST of WA's border with the rest of Australia, it would be fair to say Melbourne United virtually was a unanimous preseason prediction to win the 2021 NBL season.

