A good Friday to reflect and look ahead
WE certainly are heading in some interesting directions ahead of the 2014-15 NBL season.
A book-end of Heat feats
IRONICALLY, the season closed the way it started, with Brett Brown’s Philadelphia 76ers beating the reigning dual-NBA champion Miami Heat.
One size fits all? That's T-shirts, not life
ONE of the most rewarding challenges anyone can take on in life is the responsibility for a baby.
Thunder and Lightning, BA very frightening
IT’S probably just a coincidence Basketball Australia chair Scott Derwin was right in the thick of it when Gold Coast Blaze was ejected from the NBL under the national federation’s watch.
New ideas and recycled ones too
THE dust is settling on what has been a landmark season for the NBL, sell-out crowds for the Grand Finals closing it on a high note.
Perth's success one for the ages
THEY were the best team all year and the best club all year so no-one should be surprised they also were the best on the one day it mattered the most.
The disease became a plague
IT was the talk of social media and reinforced all day that the one thing the new NBL failed to clean up - though it promised it would - was the notorious practice of "flopping".
Home court the common denominator
COME on now. It doesn't matter which team you support, this "debate" about the officiating on the eve of Game 3 of the NBL Grand Final is fairly tiresome.
Well, I didn't see that coming!
FIRST up, let me say thank you to the many people who have inquired and queried what has happened to B.O.T.I. for the past week or so.
Can't stop The Rot, even seeing Red
LOOKS like the NBL and B.O.T.I. were of like mind with out awards, the league tonight revealing Wollongong Hawks import Rotnei Clarke as its 2013-14 MVP.
ROUND ABOUT: NBL #24
I HAVE a policy to never try to defend the indefensible and a knee to the groin – heavy contact or not – is indefensible in my book.
Great game, but don't blame fans for missing
THE basketball talk in Adelaide today has focused on two things – the 36ers’ excellent Game 1 semi final win over Melbourne and why only 3,865 of the Sixers’ faithful made it to The Fortress.
Bradtke's #50 joins him in retirement
MELBOURNE’s decision to retire Mark Bradtke’s #50 uniform is a quality effort by the Tigers, even if a little overdue.
Rankings #25 ... done at last
QUITE the surprise how excited media outlets were this week with shock, horror revelations the NBL wants a second Melbourne team in the city's south-east.
36ers-Tigers aim to end 'curse'
IF the winner of the Adelaide 36ers-Melbourne Tigers NBL semi final series goes on to claim the Championship this season, they will break their own playoff curse.
Umps, not coaches under the playoff pump
THE most scrutiny will not be on Joey Wright or Chris Anstey on Thursday, or Trevor Gleeson and Gordie McLeod on Friday, but instead on both officiating crews for the NBL semi finals.
ROUND ABOUT: NBL #23
OK. Hands up anybody who expects a Melbourne-Wollongong NBL Grand Final series?
B.O.T.I. 2013-14 NBL Award Winners
THE NBL regular season is over and it is time to unveil Basketball On The Internet’s award winners for 2013-14.
Rankings #24 ... and not much more
WE’RE down to it, a last NBL regular season round with plenty of twists and turns yet to keep every fan happy.
Bruton goes out as the best "assassin"
TO the best of my research, CJ Bruton hasn’t actually said the “R” word, despite strong independent rumors he and Kristi Harrower soon will launch their exclusive “Who Says Basketball Is Only For Tall Folks?” academy.
