NBL Cup 2: Bye bye Taipans, 36ers
IT'S a sad day for Taipans fans but the reality is that once again, the boys in orange could not back up a good NBL season and, while we're at it, how awful is Adelaide's worst basketball?
NBL Cup Rd.2: Seasons riding on this Cup round
THRILLERS, upsets, chillers and killers - Round 1 of the NBL Cup had it all, including some monumental fadeouts and flounderings that have a few clubs now teetering on the brink of irrelevance.
NBL21 TotW: We're wild about these guys
EAST of WA's border with the rest of Australia, it would be fair to say Melbourne United virtually was a unanimous preseason prediction to win the 2021 NBL season.
NBL Cup 1: Wildcats end the streak
THE NBL Cup flew off to a flyer on Saturday, Cairns reversing two home losses against Illawarra and Perth closing Melbourne's winning streak at six, "Coaches Challenges" one of the talking points of "The Big Show".
At Brad&Boti we have Bevo and he's spilling the beans
CONTINUING our new policy of bringing on an entertaining guest to offset the dross served up by Brad Rosen and myself at the Brad&Boti podcast, this week we collared one of Australia's finest coaches and gentlemen, Rob "Bevo" Beveridge to bring us uptodate on what he's been upto of late. And of early. It's our best work to date.
NBL TV Callers: Please, shut the hell up
THERE'S a lot to love about the NBL this year and its blanket TV coverage but can our commentators please learn occasionally to just shut the hell up?
Quadruple-doubles? They're even rare in the NBA
LONG-time website supporter and early American import into Oz almost six decades ago, Bob Craven has uncovered that while triple-doubles do bob up, quadruple doubles are a rare beast, even in the NBA.
Baby Boomers smack the Crawl Blacks
WE recognise you are desperately hanging out to know who won tonight's massive FIBA Asia Cup qualifier in Cairns from our long-standing trans-Tasman rivalry and we can merrily report that, yes indeed, basketball was the winner.
Here we go: NBL Cup Rd.1
OK. Just to be clear here, the NBL Cup which tips off in Victoria today, is for the trophy and $300,000 prizemoney BUT the 36 games all count toward the current 2021 regular season.
BA and NZ making the best of a FIBA farce
BASKETBALL Australia has done a great job of salvaging something worthwhile out of tomorrow night's totally farcical if not downright idiotic decision by FIBA to force an Asia Cup qualifying match between the "Boomers" and New Zealand in Cairns.

