NBL21 TotW Rd.19: United against COVID
COVID may have struck in Melbourne but United has struck out on the road, comfortably handling playoff wannabes Illawarra and Brisbane to indisputably claim our NBL Team of the Week honours.
NBL21 Rd 20: The penultimate round
HOW many games can Perth win with the Wildcats' dual-MVP superstar Bryce Cotton sidelined by injury? Well, if you count beating Adelaide as having any significance, the Wildcats are off to a flyer.
NBL Rd19 Part 2: Cotton, COVID - it's all happening
THE shock news out of NBL Round 19 is less the games (covered here in our Review Part 2) but Perth's loss of superstar Bryce Cotton for the rest of the regular season and Melbourne's latest COVID outbreak.
Bob's Corner: Here come the girls
BOB'S CORNER: Based in Seattle, our US correspondent BOB CRAVEN has the word on how our Aussie pair on the WNBA's Storm roster - Ezi Magbegor and Steph Talbot - have been travelling in the early going, twice running into Liz Cambage and her Aces, no less. And there's NBA news too!
NBL Rd19 Results Part 1: Do you recall the decals?
MUM'S the word, apparently, if you are employed by the NBL to commentate on its games and someone slips on an advertising decal, so it's going to not only take a serious injury but also that player suing the league for negligence.
NBL21 Rd 19 Part 2: Simon says let's play finals
SOUTH East Melbourne's announcement this week it is taking up its contract option and reappointing coach Simon Mitchell for NBL 2021-22 was timely ahead of the Phoenix's maiden playoff campaign in just its second season.
B&B: Answering those Kerley questions
WHEN the NBL tipped off, there was one coaching doyen known as Brian and it wasn't our man Goorjian. It was Brian Kerle, a four-time NBL championship ooach, multiple champion as a player at St Kilda in the game's halcyon era and an Olympian. Yep, Brad Rosen and I this week feature an all-time great of the game, BRIAN KERLE.
NBL21 Rd19 Part 1: Six of the best
NBL Round 19 has a whopping 11 matches from tonight through to next Tuesday so we're splitting the preview in two once again, today looking at the first six matches, and they're six of the best.
NBL21 TotW Rd.18: At last, Phoenix have risen
YES, we've been waiting to use that headline for a couple of years now and South East Melbourne finally gave us the chance when it got its act together to dominate both ends of the NBL ladder in Round 18.
Rd 18 Results Part 2: Ball hawk wins it
IF it does come to pass, as even many non-Hawks fans are hoping, that Illawarra makes it to the Final Four this NBL season, one of the reasons will be Justin Simon's game-saving steal against New Zealand.

