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Shell-shocked Sixers have a slight way back
MAKE no mistake. Game 2 of the NBL Championship Series on Friday in Adelaide will be a different story to the one Sydney told so brutally on Saturday as it set a Grand Final winning margin record of 44 points over Mike Wells' overwhelmed and extremely underwhelming 36ers.
Kings crush 36er dreams in record Game 1 rout
MANY NBL fans and "experts" shook their heads in dismay when league champion and dual MVP Chris Anstey predicted the Sydney Kings would sweep Adelaide for the 2026 championship. Tonight, after the calamitous Game 1 slaughter at Qudos Bank Arena in which Tim Soares shone, those same talking heads were ducking for cover.
Brad&Boti: Opals, Sami, Ken, the Kings and 36ers
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THE Opals have stamped their imprimatur at the FIBA World Cup qualifiers, the Sydney Kings and Adelaide 36ers will battle it out for the NBL's 2026 championship and Brad Rosen and I also talk about the death of basketball icon Ken Cole in this week's Brad&Boti podcast.
Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE: Who will be the kings of 2026?
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WE'VE said it all year - that Adelaide had the personnel to reach the NBL Grand Final and Sydney Kings the depth to trouble them, and now we have it - the Championship Series so many people wanted. Joey Wright and I go to work on it at our Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE podcast.
DJ on song as 36ers storm into Final
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THE NBL's undisputed 2026 MVP, Bryce Cotton, compiled a whopping 109 points in Adelaide's three-game advance to the best-of-five Grand Finals, in the process eliminating South East Melbourne Phoenix at Adelaide Entertainment Centre. But Dejan Vasiljevic's contribution was inestimable.
Vale Ken Cole, unique in so many ways
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"BEWARE the Ides of March" - the classic warning to wannabe emperor Julius Caesar but, as it turns out, a March 15 omen equally appropriate for basketball's undisputed "king" Ken Cole who died peacefully this morning, surrounded by family. The sport's most colourful and controversial figure prepared us for this moment for years.
Deja vu for 36ers and farewell to Wildcats
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IT was deja vu tonight for Adelaide fans as the 36ers coughed up an 18-point buffer to South East Melbourne, with a rabid Nathan Sobey running amok for a career-high 41 points, while Sydney put the Wildcats out to pasture in their rival NBL semi final, a 29-16 final quarter revealing the depleted home side had hit the wall.
Forget the calls, the bball was epic
WAS it a goal tend? Was it an offensive hook? Questions and queries about the officiating in Game 1 of the NBL's semi final series between Sydney and Perth overshadowed the post-game of what was another epic battle that included heroic moments from the unlikeliest of characters, such as Makuach Maluach.
Cotton controversy? Phoenix feels the fall-out
JUST for the benefit of anyone, or perhaps just that "one" person who wondered if Bryce Cotton's MVP win this season was completely kosher, the NBL's little master last night put on a 42-point extravaganza to secure a 1-0 lead for Adelaide over South East Melbourne in the semi finals.
Brad&Boti: Opals to feast in Turkey, NBL down to 4
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THE NBL is on the threshold of its 2026 best-of-three semi finals, giving Brad&Boti podcast colleague Brad Rosen and I plenty to discuss, but before we even do, over in Turkey our Australian Opals are in action against Argentina, Japan, Hungary, Turkey and Canada.
