Australia V Japan qualifier for Adelaide
TITANIUM Security Arena in Adelaide will host the Boomers against Japan in November in the historic first FIBA Asia Qualifying match staged in Australia.
Holy Celtics Batman & other great vids
THE Boston Celtics weren’t the first basketball team Boston fell in love with and, in fact, the storied NBA franchise owes much of its early successes to an unlikely college.
New bounce at FOX SPORTS
HAVE no doubt whatsoever – FOX SPORTS is the place for all your Australian basketball coverage.
United snare Cup again
MELBOURNE United today collected its second Loggins-Bruton Cup in three years as NBL Blitz champion when it smacked a depleted Perth 93-67 at the State Basketball Centre.
Bullets shoot down 36ers
BOOMERS FIBA Asia Cup-winning centre Matt Hodgson produced a double-double today for the 36ers but his teammate in Lebanon, Daniel Kickert, has led Brisbane to a 101-92 Blitz win.
Wortho bound for US coaching gig
RETIRED Australian Boomers and NBL star Mark Worthington will leave tomorrow for the US and an assistant-coaching gig at storied Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
36ers draw first blood at Blitz
ADELAIDE tonight opened its NBL Blitz series with a 96-90 win over Perth in Traralgon, new 36ers’ import Ramone Moore coming off the bench to lead all scorers with 20 points.
Shorter ready to stamp his name
SHANNON Shorter could have been forgiven for wondering what all the fuss was about, sitting in sunny Dallas, 385km from the devastation Hurricane Harvey was wreaking on his Houston hometown.
Lucas facing fight of his life
CHRIS Lucas has coached WNBL championships and last week took Australia’s Emerging Opals to a World University Games gold medal but today he is facing the greatest challenge of his life.
Lightning to rally for Chris
MAC Lightning’s coup recruit Abby Bishop says Adelaide’s WNBL team will “do it for Chris” in the wake of news coach Chris Lucas has a cancer fight on his hands.

