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Podcasts, Balls and Bangles
SYDNEY Kings captain of a bygone era, the redoubtable Brad Rosen, is definitely a Southside Flyers and a Kings-Wildcats NBL Grand Final advocate, as is clear in our weekly podcast.
The Week That Was: Feb.16-23
SOUTHSIDE Flyers are through to the WNBL Grand Final, our Boomers are 1-1 in their Asia Cup qualifiers and it has been another big week in basketball generally.
Poddering around: Kia, WNBL, NBL, it's all here
CANBERRA has taken over as our WNBL championship favourite, we're still tipping a Sydney-Perth NBL Final and what is up with the Asia Cup? Brad Rosen and I sink our teeth into this and more at our weekly podcast.
WTF is FIBA and BA doing?
CORRECT me if I'm wrong but isn't the Tokyo Olympic Games the pinnacle for basketball in 2020? So what the hell is FIBA doing scheduling meaningless, costly and downright stupid "Asia Cup qualifying" games THIS WEEK?
Fine Cotton makes it a double
PERTH's American superstar guard Bryce Cotton tonight became the NBL club's first multiple winner of the Most Valuable Player award when he collected the Andrew Gaze Trophy as the league's 2019-20 winner.
The Week That Was: Feb.9-16
THIS has no doubt been one of the most dramatic weeks in basketball, with the Opals qualifying for Tokyo and Bryce Cotton and Kia Nurse claiming the NBL and WNBL's Most Valuable Player awards respectively.
As scripted, United storms into NBL Finals
MELBOURNE United today closed NBL 2019-20's regular season with an emphatic 109-90 rout of new derby rival South East Melbourne in Throwdown IV, clinching the fourth berth for the playoffs.
36ers dumped as Bullets fire on fourth
MELBOURNE United only needs to get the job done tomorrow against derby rival South East Melbourne to land in the NBL semi finals, despite Brisbane today smashing Cairns by 36 points.
United lands and Kia keeps it at Caps
DO the sums any way you like but with United last night beating the Taipans by 16 and with the depleted Phoenix to come, the NBL Final Four now will be Sydney, Perth, Cairns and Melbourne.
Tips: Eleventh hour drive for United
NEW Zealand Breakers are the form team of the trio battling it out for fourth place and the NBL finals, but it is Melbourne - considered a certainty for two-thirds of the season - which actually is in the box seat.
