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Hoops diplomacy, Euro style (Feature)
THE TOUR: Sarunas, Dirk, Giannis, Luka—Europe has supplied some of the NBA’s biggest names for a generation now. But the man who helped make the Euro Invasion possible is all but forgotten: Jim McGregor, the entrepreneurial American coach who brought basketball across the Atlantic 50 years ago.
Lightning takes a new turn with import
ADELAIDE Lightning have secured Brianna Turner - one of the most highly-decorated USA national team juniors, a star at University of Notre Dame and a new face at WNBA's Phoenix Mercury - for their 2019-20 WNBL assault.
Adelaide's elite coaches speak
CHRIS Lucas (Lightning) and Joey Wright (36ers) - two of the most successful coaches in the WNBL and NBL respectively - will lay their off-seasons bare at this month's Free Throw Foundation lunch on May 31.
White and Dillon 'bound for Adelaide'
LOOKS like someone at Adelaide 36ers remembered this is free agent season and reached out to guards Kevin White (Illawarra Hawks) and Daniel Dillon (Cairns Taipans) who now look likely to continue their NBL careers in the city of churches.
FLASHBACK 115: Oct.5-10, 1976
*FLASHBACKS, my irregular "lucky dip" where I just reach into my drawers of old Australian basketball stuff and transcribe or post whatever I find for you.
Brook bubbles back to Lightning
LIGHTNING forward-centre Chelsea Brook has signed for her fourth WNBL season with her home club but is hoping to have more of an impact after a season playing NBL1.
Mitch's 'pleasure and pain' on NBA quest
MITCH Creek turns 27 today, continuing a basketball journey which started in Horsham, Victoria and which has made him Australia’s most recent NBA player. Today he talks about that journey, the highs, the lows, anxieties, excitement, loneliness and the sheer joy of it all.
Lillard silences Thunder
SPOILER Alert! Marvel's eagerly awaited Avengers Endgame opens in cinemas around Australia today but it was Damian Lillard, not Thanos, silencing the Thunder.
FLASHBACK 114: Oct 6-7, 1970
*FLASHBACKS, my irregular "lucky dip" where I just reach into my drawers of old Australian basketball stuff and transcribe or post whatever I find for you.
Sweet revenge for NBA Aussies
BEN Simmons had, if not the "last" laugh, certainly a loud guffaw, Andrew Bogut confirmed Steve Kerr is a good judge and Patty Mills did what was necessary as their teams all took series leads in the NBA Playoffs today.
