Rankings: Wildcats, Capitals still top the charts
THERE's only five teams truly still in the running for a NBL Final Four berth and it has been reflected in our weekly rankings, while in the WNBL, the jockeying on the playoff partygoers' island is all that has transpired this week.
Mike Dancis, the original Adelaide giant, has died
IN another sad day for basketball, Mike Dancis, literally a giant of the game in South Australia, passed away in his sleep today at Glynde Lutheran Home, aged 80.
Basketball SA Hall of Fame inductees: Kay McFarlane
TICKETS are going fast for the relaunch of the BASKETBALL SA Hall of Fame on Friday-week at Stamford Plaza, the first list of inductees for the decade including North Adelaide Rockets and SA great as a player and coach, Kay McFarlane.
WNBL PotW: A star on the fly
THE successful return to Canberra of reigning league MVP Kelsey Griffin highlighted Round 15 of the WNBL, teammate Kia Nurse putting her hand up for our Player of the Week consideration.
NBL PotW: All Star with a Bullet
HOW great was it to see a big guy dominate an NBL game in the manner Miles Plumlee did as Perth held off New Zealand 80-79 in a thriller last round?
Vale Kobe Bryant 1978-2020
KOBE Bryant, the greatest NBA basketball player of the era connecting Michael Jordan to LeBron James, died yesterday along with his daughter Gianna and seven others in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
NBL: That's a Wrap as Phoenix, 36ers gone
IT was a gutsy inaugural NBL season for South East Melbourne Phoenix, but Round 17 formally ended the club's bold drive for playoffs, and threw out the 36ers as well.
The Week That Was: Jan.19-Jan 26
THIS was a super-charged period in the NBL and WNBL, with so much going on all week you shouldn't blame yourself if you missed something.
WNBL: Boomers, Caps chase second and its advantages
WNBL Round 15 has determined Southside Flyers will host Adelaide Lightning in one best-of-three semi final series and Melbourne Boomers will face Canberra Capitals in the other, but homecourt advantage there is still up for grabs.
Bullets gun down Sixers' season
BRISBANE tonight won its fifth straight game to take a tentative grip on an NBL Final Four berth, in the process sending Adelaide's season into mothballs at Adelaide Entertainment Centre, 108-99.

