After swatting Mozzies, Opals pluck Canucks
HAVING swatted Mozambique to open their Commonwealth Games campaign, the Opals tonight belied Canada's high international ranking with a 100-61 cruise at Townsville Entertainment Centre.
On This Day: April 8, 2015
WATCHING Aussie NBA star Ben Simmons yesterday leading his Philadelphia 76ers to a mesmerising win over LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers, it's hard to believe just three years ago he was being measured for a marquee junior game - On This Day.
On This Day: April 7, 2015
THE Commonwealth Games are on in earnest, a fitting day to revisit April 7 of three years back when Australia's cross-Tasman rival New Zealand added Adelaide Lightning coach Chris Lucas to its Tall Ferns' coaching panel - On This Day.
Kay's day as Boomers escape NZ
THE Pool A thriller between Australia and New Zealand balancing on a knife’s edge, it was Boomers forward Nick Kay who cut the cord and set the Tall Blacks adrift with a monster 3-pointer inside the final two minutes.
Boomers, Opals off to flyers
AUSTRALIA's men's and women's basketball teams at the Commonwealth Games tonight showed their white-hot favouritism was justified with impressive opening victories in Cairns and Townsville respectively.
There's gold in them thar Games
LET’s be brutally blunt here and not kid ourselves. Anyone who follows Australian basketball already has the Boomers and Opals down for Gold Medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Creek NBA-bound, via Bundesliga
MITCH Creek’s decision to withdraw from Australia’s Gold Medal-bound Commonwealth Games team to further his burgeoning career in Germany’s Bundesliga was one of the most gut-wrenching of his stellar career.
Face of 36ers to change
IT'S party time for Melbourne - and rightly so - but after two years of retaining its Australian content, Adelaide 36ers are set to look a little different in 2018-19.
G5: United's wait over in superb fashion
UNITED as one, Melbourne today followed captain Chris Goulding to the Promised Land with a 100-82 win to clinch the 2017-18 NBL championship in front of a roaring sell-out crowd at Hisense Arena.
Here we go - G5 and other stuff
THERE'S every reason for Melbourne United fans to be confident today ahead of the deciding Game 5 of the NBL's epic Grand Final Series, and no reason Adelaide 36ers fans shouldn't feel likewise.

