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Sacre bleu! 2025 is due so here's the good and bad
THERE is no question 2024 was a big year for basketball, France proving at the Olympics it is now #2 in the world in both men and women behind USA, while at home, Tasmania celebrated the state's second NBL championship and continues to show this season it is a force, even with the "Jack" missing from JackJumpers.
Where's Wally? Where's the Aussie, you mean
IT'S CHRISTMAS so here's a very special picture for you - a "Where's Wally" (or Where's Waldorf if you prefer) - for Aussie NBA fans, specifically those who followed the Chicago Bulls, even before our own Luc Longley arrived there as the starting centre in three consecutive championship teams.
NBL: Hummer's shift from bonus to onus
AS NBL titleholder Tasmania prepares tonight to face Melbourne United, the club it conquered in an epic 2024 Championship Series, spare a thought not only for the JackJumpers' injury-jaded Paris Olympics centre Will Magnay but also incoming import Ian Hummer.
NBL|WNBL: One Adelaide has it right
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WHEN Adelaide gets it wrong, wow, does it ever. Then again, when Adelaide gets it right, national league basketball life can be full of optimism and bliss. In the middle of this stands a man born Christmas Day and bearing abundant gifts of wisdom. The 36ers didn't want to know. But the Lightning did. Which team would you rather be today?
NBL|WNBL: Regional clubs dominate as 2024 turns to 2025
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REGIONAL clubs playing team-first basketball are dominating the NBL and WNBL, Illawarra today drawing a sell-out 5,462 fans to WIN Entertainment Centre in Wollongong to see it crush Perth, while Bendigo continues to lead the WNBL despite two unexpected setbacks this round.
WNBL: Perth spirit away hopes as Lightning fly
ON the one hand, it rarely pays to celebrate prematurely as the Spirit were reminded by Perth and on the other, it's "welcome to the WNBL" to Scott Ninnis as coach of an Adelaide Lightning which lost import playmaker Japreece Dean to a broken finger but still held off Southside in his coaching debut.
Time Out-NOFLOP ZONE: Brett Maher on leaving the 36ers
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TIME Out NO FLOP ZONE partner Joey Wright is somewhere in Serbia watching his basketball star daughter in action so this week we subbed in Brett Maher, talking about NBL, NBA and also why he chose to step away from Adelaide 36ers after 32 years.
Brad&Boti: Key WNBL moves and another Bryce bonanza
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PLAYERS, coaches on the move - the WNBL has had a big week and over in the NBL, that man Bryce Cotton has just kept on keeping on, delighting Brad&Boti podcast colleague Brad Rosen and Perth Wildcats fans. There is much on which to pontificate with all these comings and goings.
WNBL: It's Great Scott, 17 years later
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LONG before he suffered the ignominy of being unceremoniously sacked as Adelaide 36ers NBL coach, Scott Ninnis revealed his personal principles by rejecting an opportunity to be elevated to Adelaide Lightning head coach after the WNBL club's ownership sacked Chris Lucas. Today Ninnis was confirmed as Lightning's new "interim" coach.
Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE: A crazy 'sub' standard
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YOU know flopping is banned at our weekly Time Out podcast with three-time NBL Coach of the Year Joey Wright and myself, but there's plenty to consider as we review some of the subbing that has borderline reached pandemic stages, with several NBL coaches afflicted.
