FIBA takes a leaf from the NBL
REMEMBER all the angst through the NBL preseason last year about the direction the officiating was going to take?
Unsound bites - what a week!
NO, “Unsound Bites” isn’t about Luis Suarez or, according to the Financial Review’s sports section, the fact 405 players have so far crashed to the ground during soccer’s World Cup in Brazil - only to experience a “miraculous, instantaneous recovery.”
Sky the limit for Dante's peak
DANTE Exum was prepared to gamble, roll the dice and today he came out a millionaire at the NBA Draft in Brooklyn.
Joe sets for a medal finish
JOE Ingles could not be more delighted Patty Mills “stole the limelight” as his San Antonio Spurs last week emphatically clinched the NBA Championship 4-1 from Miami Heat.
LMAO: Lightning strike, but it's not all PC
LADIES, Men, Athletes, Others: WNBL imports Kathleen Scheer (Sydney) and Natalie Novosel (Dandenong) both will be back in action this season but at a new destination, joining rookie coach Jeremi Moule at a vastly retooled Adelaide Lightning.
Mills a boon for basketball in Australia
IN seven minutes of Game 5 of the NBA Finals today, Patty Mills did more good for basketball, the indigenous population and Australia than is even immediately quantifiable.
Tomlinson bound for Perth
PERTH is about to announce the signing of another key national league “big” after securing a championship-winning Aussie international.
One win from history
AUSSIE pair Patty Mills and Aron Baynes are now just one win away from joining Luc Longley and Andrew Gaze as NBA Champions after their San Antonio Spurs took a 3-1 lead over defending champion Miami in Miami today.
Steindl to stay in north Queensland
MACKAY-born, St Mary’s-bred and Cairns-polished free agent Clint Steindl should be revealed as a Townsville Crocodile signing within days.
Another top Popp performance
GREGG Popovich has done an incredible coaching job yet again to take his San Antonio Spurs to the Western Conference Championship, keeping their appointment with reigning champ Miami Heat for the NBA Championship.

