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NBL21 TotW Rd.21: United they stood
A COUPLE of candidates raised their hands in NBL Round 21 for consideration as our final Team of the Week for this season but in the end, the answer stood out like Jock Landale in an under-12 huddle.
NBL21 Rd21 Wrap: OK then, let's get on with it.
DEFENDING NBL champion Perth tips off the 2021 best-of-three semi finals at home on Thursday against the incoming Illawarra Hawks while the rival semi final starts Friday in Sydney and features a Victorian derby between Melbourne and South East Melbourne.
B&B: A 'giant' of the game joins us
THIS week, Brad Rosen and I managed to secure one of our game's American-born greats, North Melbourne Giants' NBL championship coach and character Bruce Palmer. Originally recruited as a player by Melbourne Tigers, he became a player-coach at Coburg Giants, then became one of the league's most innovative coaching talents.
Ballin' is their callin': Book Review
BOOK REVIEW: Entertaining, informative and just sufficiently irreverent but not to anyone's detriment, Huw Beynon's "Ballin' in Black: Our Tall Blacks Test Centurions" is a terrific new basketball tome from across the Tasman.
Bob's Corner: NBA latest and some sad big man news
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BOB'S CORNER: Our US correspondent BOB CRAVEN has an NBA playoffs update this week, along with some sad and tragic news regarding a couple of very notable "big" guys, Shawn Bradley and the late Mark Eaton, a Utah Jazz fixture for 11 years. All this and more with Bob's regular round-up
Basketball SA Hall of Fame inductees: Ted Powell
TICKETS are on sale for the 2021 BASKETBALL SA Hall of Fame induction dinner at Stamford Grand on Friday, July 9, where Ted Powell - the man rightly credited with initiating the Women's National Basketball League - will join the immortals of South Australian basketball.
Basketball SA Hall of Fame inductees: Peter Ali
TICKETS now are on sale for the 2021 BASKETBALL SA Hall of Fame induction dinner at Stamford Grand on Friday, July 9, where dual-NBL championship winning player and Moscow Olympian Peter Ali will join the immortals of South Australian basketball.
B&B: It's Norton for your security needs
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WE have been intrigued all season about the pressures on Perth Wildcats playmaking guard Mitch Norton - you know, chasing the threepeat, stepping up for the retired Damian Martin, etcetera - so Brad Rosen and I grabbed him for this week's revealing Brad&Boti podcast.
Kelly's Heroes let him down
CAIRNS Taipans pulling the trigger on their popular NBL coach Mike Kelly only was a shock because the NBL club usually errs on the side of caution and rarely has shown any sort of ruthless streak. But the decision could not genuinely register as a "surprise".
NBL21 Rd.21: This. Is. It.
WHICH two teams will join Melbourne and Perth in the NBL Final Four for the tilt at the title? It's going to take the final round of the regular season to find out as the wannabes face rival teams in the hunt, their fates in their own hands.
