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Mercedes drives Flyers to 1-0 lead
MERCEDES Russell tonight loaded the WNBL regular season champion Southside Flyers onto her shoulders and carried them to a 68-65 semi final Game 1 win over Adelaide, scoring 20 points and snaring 19 rebounds.
Seekamp, Hurst still in doubt
CONTRARY to reports suggesting otherwise, Adelaide Lightning captain Nicole Seekamp is under a major cloud ahead of tomorrow night's WNBL Game 1 of the semi final series against regular season champion Southside at Dandenong.
Fine Cotton makes it a double
PERTH's American superstar guard Bryce Cotton tonight became the NBL club's first multiple winner of the Most Valuable Player award when he collected the Andrew Gaze Trophy as the league's 2019-20 winner.
The Week That Was: Feb.9-16
THIS has no doubt been one of the most dramatic weeks in basketball, with the Opals qualifying for Tokyo and Bryce Cotton and Kia Nurse claiming the NBL and WNBL's Most Valuable Player awards respectively.
Pardon my French as Caps snatch 1-0 lead
OLIVIA Epoupa might just prove the least heralded WNBL recruit of the year but the French superstar simply sizzled today as the defending champion Capitals seized a 1-0 semi final series lead over Melbourne in Canberra.
As scripted, United storms into NBL Finals
MELBOURNE United today closed NBL 2019-20's regular season with an emphatic 109-90 rout of new derby rival South East Melbourne in Throwdown IV, clinching the fourth berth for the playoffs.
36ers dumped as Bullets fire on fourth
MELBOURNE United only needs to get the job done tomorrow against derby rival South East Melbourne to land in the NBL semi finals, despite Brisbane today smashing Cairns by 36 points.
United lands and Kia keeps it at Caps
DO the sums any way you like but with United last night beating the Taipans by 16 and with the depleted Phoenix to come, the NBL Final Four now will be Sydney, Perth, Cairns and Melbourne.
Tips: Eleventh hour drive for United
NEW Zealand Breakers are the form team of the trio battling it out for fourth place and the NBL finals, but it is Melbourne - considered a certainty for two-thirds of the season - which actually is in the box seat.
Podding along: Go you Opals! But medalling?
BRAD Rosen and I took the gloves off this week to discuss all things Opals, NBL and WNBL playoffs and, frankly, it wasn't pretty. Brad has such horrible hands.
