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Vale Kobe Bryant 1978-2020
KOBE Bryant, the greatest NBA basketball player of the era connecting Michael Jordan to LeBron James, died yesterday along with his daughter Gianna and seven others in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
The Week That Was: Jan.19-Jan 26
THIS was a super-charged period in the NBL and WNBL, with so much going on all week you shouldn't blame yourself if you missed something.
NBL: That's a Wrap as Phoenix, 36ers gone
IT was a gutsy inaugural NBL season for South East Melbourne Phoenix, but Round 17 formally ended the club's bold drive for playoffs, and threw out the 36ers as well.
WNBL: Boomers, Caps chase second and its advantages
WNBL Round 15 has determined Southside Flyers will host Adelaide Lightning in one best-of-three semi final series and Melbourne Boomers will face Canberra Capitals in the other, but homecourt advantage there is still up for grabs.
Bullets gun down Sixers' season
BRISBANE tonight won its fifth straight game to take a tentative grip on an NBL Final Four berth, in the process sending Adelaide's season into mothballs at Adelaide Entertainment Centre, 108-99.
Flyers dominate Adelaide Lite
WNBL leader Southside burst out of the blocks at Dandenong tonight and was never headed as it swatted away a depleted Adelaide Lightning 81-69, leading by as many as 21 points and rarely seriously threatened.
Basketball SA Hall of Fame inductees: Brett Maher
TICKETS are on sale now for the relaunch of the BASKETBALL SA Hall of Fame on Friday, February 7 at Stamford Plaza, the first list of inductees for the decade including Adelaide 36ers NBL great and championship-winning captain Brett Maher.
Tips: Load shmoad and it's still black and white
LET'S hope there's no more "load management" by the Sydney Kings this NBL season and that WNBL leader Southside Flyers has found a way to play without injured captain Jenna O'Hea.
Rankings: Only two hold firm in wild reshuffles
ONLY two WNBL teams and two NBL clubs held their ranking from last week after a round of unpredictable results threw form into the bin and revitalised a couple of programs.
Podcast: What a load of management
BRAD Rosen and I are on opposite sides of the "load management" discussion, thrown up in the wake of Sydney resting Andrew Bogut and then losing to New Zealand, but it's just one aspect of this week's podcast.
