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Westbeld fires but Southside flyers
NEW Lightning import Kathryn Westbeld made a strong WNBL debut today but a 24-point, 14-rebound performance by Mercedes Russell drove Southside to a flying 91-85 road win.
Westbeld debuts, Hodges returns
NEW Adelaide Lightning import Kathryn Westbeld has big shoes to fill, but coming off an NCAA championship and another in Puerto Rico, she’s confident it’s “three times is the charm” in the WNBL where she debuts tomorrow against Southside.
Opals' Olympic path clear now
THE Australian women's national team will need to negotiate France, Puerto Rico and Brazil from February 6-9 next year in Bourges to qualify for their Gold Medal quest at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Tips: Now they're the X-Men
SYDNEY has a new super hero joining its ranks with X-Man - Xavier Cooks - signing on for the rest of this NBL season and on a multi-year deal which is only impacted if he makes it to the NBA.
BA finally OK with BB reveal
GUESS what? It was true all along! Andrej Lemanis stepped down as coach of the Boomers soon after this year’s FIBA World Cup and his predecessor as our men’s national coach, Brett Brown, now will take the team to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Podcast Time! Brett subs in for Andrej
BASKETBALL Australia today made it official, announcing Brett Brown as Andrej Lemanis' Boomers successor ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, and Brad Rosen and I are all over it today at our weekly podcast.
Rankings: Move along, nothing to see here
THERE was action aplenty but this was one of those rare weeks where there was precious little movement on either our NBL or WNBL rankings charts.
NBL PotW: Easy as 32-11-13
THIS round's NBL Player of the Week award was our easiest since, oo, maybe when Chris Goulding had a 50-point game for Melbourne Tigers.
NBL Rd.8: Flat-out ballin'
ROUND 8 of the action was absolutely full of it, shocks, surprises, the spectacular and then the cherry on top, LaMelo Ball again bringing the eyes of the world to the NBL with a standout performance in Illawarra's overtime win over Cairns.
WNBL PotW: Gazing at a WNBA star
SOUTHSIDE star Jenna O'Hea certainly put her hand up this round for a second tilt at our WNBL Player of the Week award, having already claimed the honours in Round 2.
