What we didn't know...
WATCHING the Opals and Boomers dismantle New Zealand today at AIS Arena to sweep Oceania raises the question: What did we learn?
Saturday Wrap: Paint the Palace gold?
FINGERS crossed Basketball Australia has used the money saved not marketing the NBL to buy gold-colored T-shirts to place on every seat tomorrow at The Palace.
PART 2: NBL, thinking ahead
A COUPLE of years ago, when I wandered over to my desk in the Sports Department of The Advertiser newspaper in Adelaide, I was confronted by the following cartoon.
PART 1: NBL, thinking ahead
FIRST things first. Basketball “purists” who follow the NBL need to understand something. There aren’t enough of you to make a strong independent pro league work.
Tall order for NZ's Tall Blacks, Ferns
NEW Zealand's Tall Blacks and Tall Ferns will need masterplans to avert an Oceania Series sweep on Sunday in Canberra after coming up short against Australia tonight.
Glass more than half full
ON the same day as Perth Wildcats revealed one of their NBL imports as NBA-bound James Ennis, to again run into negative press about next season was staggering yesterday.
Friday Wrap - It's been a good day
THE NBL draw is out, the Opals suffer a blow, my brother gets his own line, and Ben Madgen shows again he is a special athlete and person – all in all, it was a pretty good day.
Ando, Delly on NBA radars
DAVID Andersen and Matthew Dellavedova could give Australia a record five NBA players if luck favors the Boomers Olympians after the upcoming Oceania Series against New Zealand.
Andrej's masterstroke!
WHEN all the talk began about who should succeed Brett Brown as coach of the Boomers, must confess had my nose out-of-joint Gordie McLeod’s name was not in the conversation.
Patty on the ball
BASKETBALL Australia's office minions should take off their collective feather headresses and bow to Patty Mills for the (free) leg work he is doing for next month's Oceania Series.

