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Asia Cup G1: Opals sizzle in record rout

ASIA CUP WOMEN: IN what surely was as historic a start to an international tournament as the Opals have ever unleashed, Australia tonight smashed the Philippines 115-39 in a devastating performance led by Miela Sowah but which also again reinforced the chasm between Asia's best ... and the rest.

FLASHBACK 145: The birth of Victorian Basketball

*FLASHBACKS, my irregular "lucky dip" where I just reach into my drawers of old Australian basketball stuff and transcribe or post whatever I find for you.* This week featuring the first 50 years of VBA history.

Roger King Memorial

Movie Review: Superman flies short, unfortunately

MOVIE REVIEW: Superman (M). NO. Sorry. Close but no cigar. I went to the screening full of optimism and hope DC finally could make a second halfway decent super hero movie to follow that first Wonder Woman effort. Yes, it hit the target a few times. But a bullseye?

Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE: Our man on the Case

THERE's no media spin, no fluff, just real hoops talk on our Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE podcast as the voice of Australian basketball, broadcast star John Casey, steps in to fill the big shoes of Joey Wright, away on an international hiatus ... and we don't miss a beat. 

Roger was a king during SA's greatest era

RETIRING from fulltime writing in 2017, I penned a career retrospective and arrived at the conclusion Werner Linde nudged Brett Maher as the greatest South Australian basketballer I was lucky enough to chronicle. That said, if Werner was our 60s-70s superstar a la Michael Jordan, then Roger King was that era's Scottie Pippen.

FLASHBACK 144: May, 1972 - Club C'ship Preview

*FLASHBACKS, my irregular "lucky dip" where I just reach into my drawers of old Australian basketball stuff and transcribe or post whatever I find for you.*

Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE: Patty, Kendric, Logo, it's all here

THE NBL off-season continues to heat up for Joey Wright and I as we check out the latest developments in our weekly Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE podcast, along with a steady stream of excellent viewer topics to keep us on our toes. And, of course, the NBA Finals are reaching their peak too.

RIP Southern pioneer Jeff Carey

ONE of the founding fathers of the Southern Tigers Basketball Association - previously Noarlunga City Tigers, Glenelg Tigers, Centrals and CY - and a leader of the sport in South Australia, Jeff Carey, died last Thursday, aged 83. A renowned coach and administrator, Jeff was a life member of both NCT and BASA.

Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE: Flash, substance ... or both

THIS week on our Time-Out–NO FLOP ZONE podcast, Joey Wright and I fire through one of the most action-packed NBL off-season weeks yet. From Montrezl Harrell officially landing at the Adelaide 36ers to NBL's potential global footprint expanding into Japan’s B-League showcase, this episode is stacked.