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Around Round 17
IT'S the first week of February - the UN-designated "Good News Week" - so today it is internationally legislated we can only work with positives.
Looking ahead for the 36ers
IT WOULD make perfect sense for 36ers management to sit down today with coach Marty Clarke and reach an honorable exit-strategy solution to what clearly is an untenable working condition.
Random dribbling: Rankings #17
NO more trainings, no more ankle-taping, stretching, ice baths, throwing sweaty socks into a corner, rising gingerly to accommodate the aches and pains en route to the showers.
Around Round 16
WOLLONGONG is considering petitioning the NBL for a late nickname change from Hawks to Black Cats after Glen Saville joined its injured ranks this round.
Random dribbling: Rankings #16
THE fact Kristina Keneally, as BA CEO - even in absentia - has not bought into the Canberra Times-driven debate over sexism in Australian basketball is only slightly more intriguing than Carrie Graf's consistent silence.
The new Bird-Magic
NO basketball rivalry/friendship will ever come close to the famed Bird-Magic hate-love relationship which played out from 1979-1992 but King James and the Durantula definitely are on course for a good one of their own.
Around Round 15
NEW Wollongong replacement import Malcolm Grant will make his debut on Australia Day against reigning NBL champion New Zealand at The Sandpit.
FLASHBACK 13: October, 2001
*FLASHBACKS, my weekly "lucky dip" where I just reach into my drawers of old Australian basketball stuff and transcribe whatever I find for you.
Random dribbling: Rankings #15
LIKE many Adelaide 36ers fans, I would love 1986 championship coach Ken Cole to pull off his ambitious plan to buy the NBL club.
CJ to Hawks falls through
UNFORESEEN visa complications have stymied Wollongong's plans to add SEABL superstar CJ Massingale to its NBL line-up, replacing injured import Lance Hurdle, as reported here yesterday.
