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DID you know new Opals coach Brendan Joyce is hoping Lauren Jackson - our No.1 player and, if carrying flags at Olympics is any gauge, a future FIBA Hall of Famer - might suit for the Oceania Series with New Zealand in August.

Loz missed the entire WNBL season after hamstring-related surgery but Joyce is hopeful she will be back in the green-and-gold for his first significant international series.

(Yes, the Sino-Aussie series next month in WA and China is big, but it is mainly preparation for Oceania.)

Liz Cambage, Jenna O'Hea, Rachel Jarry, plus currently recovering from injury pair Erin Phillips and Penny Taylor, all are playing WNBA and will not be available to face the Tall Ferns.

It shouldn't make a lot of difference. New Zealand is ranked 22nd in the world and Joyce still will have a host of great players locally - Suzy Batkovic, Abby Bishop etcetera - to suit for the two-game series.

DID you know there were two wonderful mistakes in a wire-service story today about San Antonio's Western Conference Final win which I will now leave for you to locate.

"Australians Patrick Mills and Aron Baynes are on their way to the NBA Finals.

The Australian duo's San Antonio Spurs completed a 4-0 Western Conference Finals clean sweep of the Memphis Grizzlies with a 93-86 victory in Memphis.

Spurs point guard Tony Parker was the star, scoring 37 points.

The Spurs, who have another Australian in assistant coach Brett Brown at the club, will play LeBron James' Miami Heat in the best-of-seven finals.

If the Spurs go on to defeat the Heat, point guard Mills and forward-centre Baynes will join Australian basketball greats Luc Longley and Andrew Gaze as owners of NBA Championship rings.

Longley won three rings with Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls in the 1990s while Gaze earned one with the Spurs in 1999."

If that all seemed OK to you, here's a clue. Go back to the fourth paragraph to find two you-beaut blues.

DID you know Adelaide 36ers have four players in the Boomers' squad - Adam Gibson, Daniel Johnson, Anthony Petrie and Jason Cadee?

But, in fact, Gold Coast Blaze have three?

DID you know Elyse Penaluna makes it four destinations in the WNBL after signing with reigning champion Bendigo Spirit?

The 193cm Penaluna played WNBL with AIS, Dandenong and Bulleen before making Bendigo her new home, albeit according to my info, after she failed a fitness test with Canberra.

Penaluna, 25, missed the 2011-12 WNBL season after suffering an ACL injury and was a big part of Bulleen's most successful run of recent times.

She is playing SEABL with Bendigo Lady Braves but currently is out with a knee injury.

Penaluna also makes it four "bigs" at the Spirit, with Gabe Richards, import Kelsey Griffin and recruit Sara Blicavs.

By the way, Blicavs is pronounce "Blitz-arves" but then, if you've been watching Geelong AFL matches on TV, you knew that.