True grit! Hawks show 36ers how it's done
THE biggest crowd for a basketball game in Adelaide - 8,824 fans most likely hoping to see LaMelo Ball - instead saw a young, exuberant Illawarra team tear apart a bloated 36ers outfit 93-84 at a shellshocked Adelaide Entertainment Centre.
Tips: 36ers can make their move
OF the pack of teams hovering in and around the NBL's fourth spot, Adelaide is the one which can make a serious move this round and even jump into third place.
Podcast: NBL-Tasmania marriage closer to the altar
TASMANIA is another day closer to again having an NBL team in the 2021-22 season and beyond, and Brad Rosen is all over it in our Brad&Boti Podcast today.
Rankings: Corey goes, Taipans slither, Flyers fly
NZ Breakers have released Corey Webster, two narrow losses has cost Cairns dearly while Southside has reclaimed top spot in our WNBL Rankings.
NZ, 36ers move on futures
NEW Zealand Breakers today moved to secure the club's future by re-signing non-coach Dan Shamir and his non-assistant Mody Maor, while the 36ers are bringing Jeff Van Groningen to Adelaide as their basketball general manager.
NBL PotW: JR to the rescue
IT'S no argument this round there were some great individual performances but the standouts were the respective backcourt pair of Jerome Randle and John Roberson.
NBL Wrap: JR, JR and JR
ROUND 11 of the NBL was most definitely one for "JR" - with first Adelaide's Jerome Randle despatching South East Melbourne, then repeating the dose for NZ Breakers, before Phoenix's John Roberson set the league alight with his late-game heroics.
The Week That Was: Dec.8-15
THE NBL and WNBL round wraps are coming your way tomorrow but in the meantime, did you catch all the action this week at Basketball On The Internet?
NBL: Who JR shot
IT came down to the last 2.1 seconds at Auckland's Spark Arena before Adelaide 36ers' star JR, Jerome Randle, came off Daniel Johnson's screen to slice the match-winning 3-pointer, ending NZ Breakers' NBL playoff dreams.
Reviews: B'ball Christmas stocking fillers
BOOK REVIEWS: It has been a rarity for basketball in Australia to have too many books written about it or its protagonists, so having two available right now as Christmas stocking stuffers is like ... well, Christmas!

