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Mic drop? Er, no. Final is Fire-Lynx, as expected
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CALL them pundits, experts, WNBL watchers but the truth is most everyone without a team-based bias had the Han Xu-boosted Perth Lynx playing Townsville Fire for the championship long ago, with only Kelsey Griffin's classy defending champion Bendigo Spirit also in the conversation as the "what if" possibility.
Brad&Boti: WNBL semis and NBL pointy end
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IT'S semi final time in the WNBL but there was no surprise in either of the Game 1s in the best-of-three series between Townsville and Southside or Perth-Bendigo but there was plenty to contemplate from the penultimate NBL regular season round, so Brad Rosen and I did that at our Brad&Boti podcast.
Brad&Boti: At last! We can say We told You!
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PODCAST partner Brad Rosen and I were feeling pretty chuffed this week, having long ago locked away the correct WNBL and NBL playoff teams and also selected Isobel Borlase to waltz home with the women's MVP. But that's just the tip of the iceberg of this week's Brad&Boti podcast.
Awards night a giant success for WNBL
BENDIGO Spirit guard and Paris Olympian Isobel Borlase tonight added to her growing list of accolades when she won the WNBL's Most Valuable Player award. In the process she joined Kristi Harrower (2010), Anneli Maley (2022) and Sami Whitcomb (2025) as only the club's fourth league MVP recipient.
Bit of a mess WNBL, now for awards, finals
THE first WNBL regular season under its new ownership concluded tonight in Townsville where the Fire ensured themselves of first place and a semi final against Southside, the defending champion Spirit to take on Han Xu and the Perth Lynx shooters in the rival semi series.
WNBL's sexist agenda will crush its growth
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THE greatest threat to the future growth and blossoming of the WNBL is not AFLW, netball, the Matildas or any lack of mainstream acceptance. It is the league's own sexist agenda which purports to equalise a gender imbalance but instead ignores the very basic rule of professional sport.
Brad&Boti: Have the Spirit hit the wall and ugh for 'basketbrawl'
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BOTH podcast colleague Brad Rosen and I agree Southside officially will wrap up fourth place in the WNBL playoffs against Canberra, wonder if Bendigo has finally hit the wall, and discuss what's happening in the NBL since the round started with an overblown incident in the Brisbane-Adelaide clash.
Brad&Boti: Izzy dizzy and key King stings
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BENDIGO Spirit guard Isobel Borlase is coming off a three-game WNBL stint in which she has wracked up 98 points while Kings guard Kendric Davis has gone off for 40 in an NBL round that Brad&Boti podcast colleague Brad Rosen and I could hardly wait to sink our teeth into.
Bigger than Basketball brings greats together
THE biggest names in Australian basketball - greats such as Andrew Gaze, Phil Smyth, Mark Bradtke, Cal Bruton, David Andersen and Ricky Grace - always showed up when it mattered and they're back together again next month for a cause "bigger than basketball".
Lynx hijinks masks lack of Plan B
DESPITE securing arguably the greatest recruiting coup in WNBL history with the signing of China's 211cm international superstar centre Han Xu, Perth's blatant lack of a "Plan B" hovers once again as its Achilles Heel ahead of imminent WNBL playoffs, Isobel Borlase at Bendigo and Courtney Woods at Townsville ready to lead their teams past the Lynx.
