Week #3 Rankings: Taipans under the spotlight
AFTER Cairns negotiates New Zealand today, will there still be only one unbeaten NBL team at the end of just Round 3?
Brayden Heslehurst: WNBL needs a presence too
BRISBANE-based B.O.T.I. correspondent BRAYDEN HESLEHURST says his city needs a women's national presence just as much as a Bullets team.
Bruton and Joyce at it one more time
CAL Bruton and Brendan Joyce on the same court was trouble. On the same bill as lunch speakers? Hold onto your party hats!
Wrap-Up #2: Milestones no millstones
CJ BRUTON having his #23 retired by the NZ Breakers was an appropriate reward for a great career and a great start to Round 2 of the NBL season.
Fire sale may have made Crocs a hotter ticket
IT was hard not to notice the Fire drew 1,900-plus to their first WNBL home game after the Crocs drew 1,400-and-change to theirs, yet both played at the Townsville RSL Stadium.
Time to Fire up, at long last
IT is time. When all the clash and clamour has died away, expect to see Townsville and Bendigo again still standing, but this time it will be Rachael McCully raising the WNBL Championship Trophy.
Week #2 Rankings: D-Mac will be backed
DARRYL McDonald has the United coaching job and it is his to lose, every game he takes as "interim" part of his audition for the gig fulltime.
Brayden Heslehurst: Shake a leg NBL
BRISBANE-based journo and hoops junkie BRAYDEN HESLEHURST joins B.O.T.I. and says the NBL is overdue showing its cards on the Brisbane bid in 2015-16.
United they stand
MUST confess the conspiracy theorists have been out in force since Chris Anstey gave Melbourne United his resignation yesterday.
Wrap-Up #1: Taipan Alley
CAIRNS would have been the story of the NBL's first round - and to some extent, indirectly still is - with United coach Chris Anstey walking away from the job today.

