On This Day: March 27, 2015
ON THIS DAY, a mere three years ago, Adelaide 36ers' All Star Daniel Johnson was recovering from a potentially life-threatening bout of pneumonia - on Saturday he plays for an NBL championship against Melbourne United.
Around Game 4 of the NBL C'ship
IT was the biggest shot of the NBL’s exhilarating best-of-five Grand Final Series but for Adelaide’s All Star Five ‘big’ Daniel Johnson, it wasn’t a hard one to take.
Joey's media stance? I'm not sure
ADELAIDE 36ers owner Grant Kelley says his club fully respects the NBL but he also understands the stand his coach Joey Wright has taken with his self-imposed gag with the media.
G4: And Game 5 here we go
ROARED on by the loudest crowd at Titanium Security Arena since its 1994 grand final with North Melbourne, the Adelaide 36ers today forced the NBL championship series into a deciding fifth game with a 90-81 win over Melbourne United.
V for Vendetta...er, Victoria
AT what point will the NBL narrative, which insists on painting Wright as a perennially angry man, finally show him in anything other than a blinkered, self-serving light?
CG43 'can't hear 36ers crowd anymore'
MELBOURNE United captain Chris Goulding, who 36ers fans reduced to a shell of himself in the 2014 semi finals in Adelaide, claims he can’t hear the Titanium Security Arena crowd anymore.
Conflict of interest? Or human nature?
LARRY Kestelman has done wonders for the National Basketball League but his conflict of interest as league owner and also club owner of Melbourne United and Brisbane Bullets make perceptions of favouritism impossible to avoid.
G3: United one win from championship
MELBOURNE tonight clasped one hand on the NBL's Dr John Raschke Trophy and hung on grimly to win the pivotal Game 3 of its best-of-five Grand Final Series 101-98, Game 4 in Adelaide on Sunday.
36ers look for overall lift
ADELAIDE will not look to any specific individual to “step up” tomorrow night against Melbourne in the injury-enforced absence of its NBA forward Josh Childress.
Casper can't find Shorter's ghost
MELBOURNE United's All Star Five (First Team) point guard Casper Ware has fired back at Adelaide's fellow import playmaker Shannon Shorter as tensions between the NBL grand finalists continue to grow.

