New ideas and recycled ones too
THE dust is settling on what has been a landmark season for the NBL, sell-out crowds for the Grand Finals closing it on a high note.
Perth's success one for the ages
THEY were the best team all year and the best club all year so no-one should be surprised they also were the best on the one day it mattered the most.
The disease became a plague
IT was the talk of social media and reinforced all day that the one thing the new NBL failed to clean up - though it promised it would - was the notorious practice of "flopping".
Home court the common denominator
COME on now. It doesn't matter which team you support, this "debate" about the officiating on the eve of Game 3 of the NBL Grand Final is fairly tiresome.
Well, I didn't see that coming!
FIRST up, let me say thank you to the many people who have inquired and queried what has happened to B.O.T.I. for the past week or so.
Can't stop The Rot, even seeing Red
LOOKS like the NBL and B.O.T.I. were of like mind with out awards, the league tonight revealing Wollongong Hawks import Rotnei Clarke as its 2013-14 MVP.
ROUND ABOUT: NBL #24
I HAVE a policy to never try to defend the indefensible and a knee to the groin – heavy contact or not – is indefensible in my book.
Bradtke's #50 joins him in retirement
MELBOURNE’s decision to retire Mark Bradtke’s #50 uniform is a quality effort by the Tigers, even if a little overdue.
Great game, but don't blame fans for missing
THE basketball talk in Adelaide today has focused on two things – the 36ers’ excellent Game 1 semi final win over Melbourne and why only 3,865 of the Sixers’ faithful made it to The Fortress.
Rankings #25 ... done at last
QUITE the surprise how excited media outlets were this week with shock, horror revelations the NBL wants a second Melbourne team in the city's south-east.

