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GET ready. Get set. Get excited. Tomorrow morning at 9am, the free agency free-for-all tips off right around Australia.

That's right folks. All those free agents on the NBL's list - guys who clubs have not been legally allowed to talk with since New Zealand won the iiNet Championship - can finally start working out where they will go.

Club CEOs will be poised over their office telephones tomorrow, waiting patiently for that second-hand to hit 12 on the clock and for nine bells to ring. Then wham! It will be on for young and old.

Smart CEOs already will have their most prized free agent targets programmed into speed dial so they can just hit the relevant button and get a jump-start!

How exciting for all those players who will also be sitting by their landlines, or have their mobiles fully charged, just waiting for that happy call.

But here's the thing which never ceases to amaze me. How is it that some clubs already are able to announce a new player signing by 9:02am? That's just phenomenal administrative work!

("We were really busy between 9:00 and 9:02 getting that signature... No. Truly...Oh look - a flying swine!'')

Does anyone truly believe agents of free agents haven't been hawking their guys for the past two weeks? Or longer?

Just makes you wonder what the two-week moratorium is worth, especially for those players in teams which didn't even reach the post-season and who have families also waiting on the outcome of negotiations which, we are supposed to believe, start tomorrow at nine.

And is that nine eastern coast time? Or central standard time? Or nine in the west, by which time all free agents will assuredly be gone?

A few clubs don't even have coaches yet so are we to assume their managements have been idle?

This waiting period, the "Free Agent Re-signing or Coercing Effort" - more commonly referred to as the FARCE - is another area which needs closer monitoring, adjusting to accommodate those players outside the post-season (why do THEY have to wait this long?) and then some appropriate fines (I know I just got PLOCH's attention!) for clubs which would be in breach.

Even the Easter Bunny has been and gone, yet we are supposed to believe no-one has been talking?

Wow.

SPEAKING of coaching appointments, it has been made official in New Zealand where assistant coach Dean Vickerman has been elevated to the #1 job after triple-championship coach Andrej Lemanis accepted the Boomers gig.

Vickers, 41, has been installed for three years and had the recommendation of his outgoing mentor Lemanis, who he assisted through six of his eight seasons at the helm.

Could we see six straight Breakers ANBL titles?

LOCAL TV sportsreader in Adelaide this week stuffed up royally when reporting 36ers tyro Mitch Creek had "resigned'' from the club.

Um. No.

He re-signed, exercising the extra year option on his contract.

Pity the sportsreader didn't exercise the hyphen.

YES, Townsville's arch rival, Cairns Taipans and the Wollongong Hawks both have been advising the "Save the Crocs'' on their respective community-membership potential ownership models.

But no, Melbourne Tigers have not been offering sponsorship advice and suggesting they too need to find a company such as DoughDough.

A DEVASTATING series of injuries is threatening to wreck the NBA playoffs.

Miami Heat's run to back-to-back championships now seems a red carpet ride, reminiscent of some 30 years ago when the Philadelphia 76ers won the title.

But that wasn't about injuries.

Sixers centre Moses Malone was asked before it started how they would go and he said: "Fo, fo, fo, fo" - meaning four-zero in each series. He was one loss out. But that was some 76ers team with Dr J, Moses, Maurice Cheeks, Andrew Toney, Marc Iavaroni, Bobby Jones, Clint Richardson et al.

And they won against the Celtics of Bird and Co, and the LA Lakers of Magic and Kareem.

LeBron's boys should just about go 4-4-4-4 but against far lesser talent.

The Knicks might cause them a few problems but beyond that?

Out West, Russell Westbrook (miniscus) missing from OKC robs them of a bona fide superstar, the Lakers have been downright embarrassing without Kobe, Nash, Blake and Meeks - as you might expect - Golden State has lost David Lee, Denver is down Gallinari, the Spurs have everyone back but aren't 100 per cent.

That said, you have to love the Clippers-Memphis series at 2-2, Andrew Bogut's Golden State Warriors leading Denver 2-1 and back East, Chicago taking Brooklyn in triple overtime.

But the Bulls have had to play all year without Derrick Rose. Boston is minus Rajon Rondo. It's almost ridiculous.

Seriously, the only thing stopping a Heat repeat would be if one of their key guys went down to injury.