Conflict of interest? Or human nature?
LARRY Kestelman has done wonders for the National Basketball League but his conflict of interest as league owner and also club owner of Melbourne United and Brisbane Bullets make perceptions of favouritism impossible to avoid.
G3: United one win from championship
MELBOURNE tonight clasped one hand on the NBL's Dr John Raschke Trophy and hung on grimly to win the pivotal Game 3 of its best-of-five Grand Final Series 101-98, Game 4 in Adelaide on Sunday.
36ers look for overall lift
ADELAIDE will not look to any specific individual to “step up” tomorrow night against Melbourne in the injury-enforced absence of its NBA forward Josh Childress.
ESPN recalls our Loz's greatness
ESPN The Magazine has celebrated its 20th anniversary by presenting its "definitive 20 for 20 - the most formidable, awe-inspiring and downright dominant athletes of the past two decades" - and Australia's greatest basketball player, Lauren Jackson, is right up there.
Casper can't find Shorter's ghost
MELBOURNE United's All Star Five (First Team) point guard Casper Ware has fired back at Adelaide's fellow import playmaker Shannon Shorter as tensions between the NBL grand finalists continue to grow.
Truly, 4-0 didn't mean a thing
YOU'RE still going to keep hearing it and reading about it but truthfully, Melbourne's 4-0 regular season sweep of the 36ers means absolutely nothing to this already enthralling best-of-five NBL Grand Final. Josh Childress' injury does.
Childress out of championship series
NEW scans of Josh Childress' injured left shoulder have revealed a scapula fracture which can take up to six weeks to heal, ruling him out of the remaining games in the NBL's best-of-five Grand Final.
Let's be serious - officiating is bizarre
IT was Adelaide coach Joey Wright after Game 1 bemused by officiating for the NBL's best-of-five Grand Final, then Melbourne's Coach of the Year Dean Vickerman unable to work it out after Game 2.
WTF: So much going on right now!
WHERE'S THE FIRE? Basketball is white hot right now with the NBL Grand Final shaping as a classic, the Boomers to host USA at Etihad Stadium and FOXSPORTS giving Brad Newley a headset!
Josh sends chill through 36ers
ADELAIDE 36ers fans held their breath when NBA forward Josh Childress didn't bounce up after being crunched by Melbourne's David Barlow under the Sixers' basket late in yesterday's Game 2 of the NBL Grand Final.

