Basketball On The Internet.

EXCEPTIONAL timing by Knox Raiders import CJ Massingale to win his third SEABL Most Valuable Player award as he signs to play NBL with Adelaide 36ers.

Many avid basketball followers in this country are counting on Massingale, who has been in the No.2 competition for seven seasons now, to make it in his step up to a higher level of competition.

SEABL players who have "made good'' in the NBL, such as Shawn Redhage - arguably the most successful to make the step, considering he is a championship winner and Olympian - also are hoping he continues the trend and shakes up the "big league''.

"We can tend to overlook SEABL imports or to just think of them as SEABL (tier) players,'' Sixers coach Marty Clarke said.

That's right. Some great talent can be flying under the radar as a result.

Look at Redhage, Eric Cooks, Mike Kelly, Andre LaFleur, Damon Lowery, Dave Gruber, Dave Biwer - that's just off the top of my head.

All those guys were given the chance and made the step with varying degrees of success.

For his part, Massingale cannot wait to pull on the 36ers' blue and show he belongs.

THE GLIDERS collected the Silver Medal at the Paralympics, going down 44-58 to Germany in the women's final.

It was the Gliders' fourth straight medal at the Paralympics, leaving them just one behind the Opals, who medalled at Olympics in Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London.

Kylie Gauci lead Australia with 15 points and five assists.

THE ROLLERS also bring home the Silver Medal after losing a ripping final 58-64 to Canada, the six-point margin not reflective of the tightness of the contest.

Shaun Norris led Australia with 19 points, six boards and four assists, Justin Eveson with 16 points, eight rebounds and five assists.

Defending Gold Medallists from Beijing, the Rollers now have medalled at three consecutive Paralympics.

CHECK out the SEABL All Star team and pick the player NOT in the WNBL.

Sara Blicavs (Launceston), Renae Camino (Bendigo), Micaela Cocks (Sandringham), Steph Cumming (Dandenong), Amy Denson (Knox), Alice Kunek (Nunawading), Lindsay Laur (Hobart), Chantella Perera (Kilsyth), Deanna Smith (Geelong), Kelly Wilson (Knox).

Renae, a WNBL championship winner (and grand final MVP) with Adelaide Lightning in 2008, also collected league MVP honors.

WOLLONGONG Hawks forward Tim Coenraad has joined new Adelaide 36er CJ Massingale in SEABL's All Star team.

Kimmani Barrett (Geelong), Jazz Ferguson (Albury/Wodonga), Andrew Harms (Dandenong), Tony Lewis (Dandenong), Shane McDonald (Nunawading), Mohamed Ntumba (Albury/Wodonga), Brandon Polk (Hobart) and Deilviz Yearby (Bendigo) made up the 2012 Stars line-up.

Mick Hill - whose name in Adelaide conjures vivid memories of him leaving the Adelaide Arena floor after Brisbane eliminated the 36ers a few years ago (ah, those were the days) - was the SEABL's Defensive Player of the Year.

Former Norwood forward Emily Fryters, like Hill now based at Knox, was the SEABL's Defensive Player of the Year in the women.

MELBOURNE will split its 14 NBL home games between Hisense Arena and The Cage this season.

The Tigers will play their first five matches at Hisense against Perth, New Zealand, Townsville, Adelaide and Sydney.

Then they will pounce on The Cage for the next seven games with Wollongong, Cairns, Sydney, Adelaide, Cairns, Perth and Wollongong. (Figure the tennis might be on then ...)

You can't keep a good Tiger locked in a Cage all season so Melbourne will be back at Hisense for its final two fixtures.

The playoffs?

Well, they have to make them first.

INTERESTING debate happening on Twitter, whether merged or amagamated clubs should annexe all past NBL titles of the parent clubs.

West Adelaide Bearcats won the NBL title in 1982 and continued in their own right until the end of the 1984 season.

At that point, the Bearcats joined the other SA domestic clubs (who had formed the Adelaide City Eagles' composite NBL club in 1982, that club changing its name a year later to Adelaide 36ers).

That means Westies competed AGAINST the 36ers for three years so, when they merged for the start of 1985 and gave SA the one club, did that mean the Bearcats' championship banner should have become Adelaide's first?

With this being the 30th anniversary of the Bearcats' success - one to be celebrated this NBL season by the 36ers as the parent club - should their banner also go up into the Adelaide Arena rafters next to the Sixers' four?

Good question and one which you could argue for or against with equal passion.

If you agree the banner should be part of the 36ers' heritage, then Victoria Titans becomes the most successful club in NBL history.

How?

Because St Kilda (two titles), after name changes to Westide Melbourne and Southern Melbourne Saints, merged with Eastside Spectres to form South East Melbourne Magic. The Magic won two titles, then merged with North Melbourne Giants to form Victoria Titans.

So if you then bring the Giants' two titles to the table - as you must if you are adding merged clubs' histories - it makes a total of six.

Pretty sure Nick Marvin and Perth will think this is a silly debate...

FINAL thought on the above discussion?

If West Adelaide Bearcats' history can be claimed as part of Adelaide 36ers', then Al Green's No.15 uniform has to immediately be retired alongside Mark Davis' #33 and Brett Maher's #5.

No, no-one else's needs to be revisited from the Bearcats-36ers crossover.

Al was a championship winner and league MVP before his distinguished career with the Sixers, and his exciting brand of basketball brought thousands through the turnstiles all around Australia.

He still holds the NBL single-game pointscoring record and his 39.5ppg in 1984 is second all-time only to Andrew Gaze's 44.1 in 1987.

Green played 164 NBL games with Adelaide AFTER achieving that, including starting on its 1985 runner-up and 1986 champion.

If you factor in his Bearcats years, his No.15 should be there alongside Davis and Maher's singlets, if not in front of them.

A SURGEON straight out of the operating theatre, a Muslim fundamentalist female wearing her burqa, and a ninja walk into a bar.

The barman looks up from where he is cleaning glasses, stares at them and says: "What is this? Some kind of joke?"