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Kyrie will strike gold
PICTURE this. You’re at the rock concert of one of your all-time favorite artists and the show is going well. He/she/they is/are clearly impressed too.
A big gamble by Tigers
SAY what you will, the record of big imports - and by "big", let's say 7-footers - in the NBL is nothing to write home about.
WNBL TV deal done
GOOD news to be revealed soon by Basketball Australia and the ABC - the WNBL television deal will continue in 2013-14.
Joyce brings joy for 'oldies'
THE best aspect of Brendan Joyce’s appointment as Opals coach is not the culture shift, enthusiasm, work ethic or his heart-on-the-sleeve, bleed green-and-gold approach – though, of course, that is mightily refreshing and upbeat.
Aussie ball bouncing back
IT will be interesting to see FIBA’s next set of international rankings in the wake of Australia’s stellar performance at the World University Games in Kazan, Russia.
Please de-merge the Emerge...
WATCHING Australia pick itself up off the World University Games canvas last night to deliver an 21-point turnaround against reigning champ Serbia was a wonderful revisit of patriotic pride.
A metta marquee moment
JUST when you start wondering whether the NBL salary cap should include the provision for one marquee player outside of it and conclude “no”, Metta World Peace comes on the market.
Surging Emergers fall shy
AND that's why we celebrate when we beat the USA. Because usually, the place where the game was born and with its population of 314 million, has a slight edge on where the game is scorned by many of our 22 million.
Quick shots: Dean a bona fide hero
MOST of us would like to believe if we were confronted with a life-or-death situation, we'd react in a way we could later be proud of, but Breakers coach Dean Vickerman knows it for a fact.
USA takes one from the Aussies
ANYTIME Australia knocks off the USA in basketball is a great day for the sport in this country.
