Did you know? 1, 2, 3...
DID you know new Opals coach Brendan Joyce is hoping Lauren Jackson - our No.1 player and, if carrying flags at Olympics is any gauge, a future FIBA Hall of Famer - might suit for the Oceania Series with New Zealand in August.
Did you know? A, B, C...
DID you know that A - Abby Bishop - is back on the market and will overnight become the WNBL's most sought free agent?
Random dribbling: Mecca on the move
LOOK-OUT Melbourne. Forget it Townsville. Perth? Nup. Canberra is the "mecca" of basketball in Australia.
Put KB on the import trail
MANY of the NBL's imports who still are spoken of in reverential terms were players clubs stumbled onto - a matter of good fortune over good management.
Get core right and she'll be apples
MARK Bradtke hated Tony Ronaldson and Brian Goorjian with such a passion, he went out of his way to avoid his Melbourne basketball contemporaries.
Random dribbling: Weighing in
HOLD your horses there Hawks fans. My latest insider-trading has Stevie Weigh shooting the rock with Cairns Taipans next season.
"New" NBL ideas #2
THE ideas have been pouring in about what direction the "new" NBL should take in season 2014-15, expansion a very hot topic.
Vale Tanya, Peter
IT IS entirely appropriate this is National Volunteer Week and Basketball Australia has jumped aboard, honoring the thousands who offer their time, skills and passion to help our great game prosper.
Random dribbling: Boom boys
CALM down now Boomers squad analysts. Cam Gliddon, Igor Hadziomerovic and Ben Simmons all have been added to Andrej Lemanis' first Boomers squad.
Sending a wrong message
BOOMERS coach Andrej Lemanis last Saturday endorsing the continued relevance and importance of the NBL could not have come at a more important time.

