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The long hunt is over for Jordan

IT was worth the wait for Woodville captain Jordan Hunter, the former playmaker of the New Zealand Tall Ferns who finally won an NBL1 Central crown tonight as her Warriors made history, taking down Sturt 73-65 in the grand final at Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

Grand farewell to sporting icon Erin

SHE won two WNBA championships, led Adelaide Lightning to the WNBL crown in 2008, was an Opals Olympian AND a FIBA world champion all before she became the face of AFLW at Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide. Tomorrow night, Erin Phillips plays her final match of competitive sport in the NBL1 Central women's grand final.

Long and winding road for Lightning

THE old "third time lucky" mantra may need upgrading for the WNBL's storied Adelaide Lightning franchise, saved from extinction for the fourth time now but in Melanie MacGillivray, securing arguably the best credentialled CEO currently at any level of basketball in Australia.

RIP Barrie Robran, the greatest of the greats

IT is incredibly sad that on the same day the late Roger King's life as an SA basketball great was being remembered and celebrated, the state's footballing icon Barrie Robran died, further closing the book on what can only be revered as arguably the greatest era of sport anyone aged near 60 can recall.

Roger King Memorial

Roger was a king during SA's greatest era

RETIRING from fulltime writing in 2017, I penned a career retrospective and arrived at the conclusion Werner Linde nudged Brett Maher as the greatest South Australian basketballer I was lucky enough to chronicle. That said, if Werner was our 60s-70s superstar a la Michael Jordan, then Roger King was that era's Scottie Pippen.

RIP Southern pioneer Jeff Carey

ONE of the founding fathers of the Southern Tigers Basketball Association - previously Noarlunga City Tigers, Glenelg Tigers, Centrals and CY - and a leader of the sport in South Australia, Jeff Carey, died last Thursday, aged 83. A renowned coach and administrator, Jeff was a life member of both NCT and BASA.

Lorraine Eiler Medal honours our original G.O.A.T.

SHE was the first Australian - male or female - to win a US college sports scholarship and instrumental in initiating basketball for women in the 1950s. And that is barely the tip of the iceberg of what the late great Basketball SA Hall of Fame Legend Lorraine Eiler achieved in an outstanding and unrivalled sporting career, her name now forever enshrined in our folklore.

Last link to our first Games team dies at 94

COLIN Burdett, the last remaining player who suited for Australia at its 1956 international debut as host nation for the Melbourne Olympic Games, has died, aged 94, closing the book on our link to that first team of part-timers who launched the Boomers tradition 69 years ago.

Golden Girls seeking 'new' faces

FEELING like you could use a little jog up and down the basketball court like the good old days? Then Ladies, if you live in Adelaide, this is for you. Every Tuesday from 10-11am at centrally-located Wayville Sports Centre, you can relive the glory days ... provided you are between 55 and 80 and keen to have a little movement back in your life.