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FRIEND of the show and now Adelaide 36ers' NBL coach for the next two seasons, Brad Rosen and I were pumped to welcome back Scott Ninnis for this week's Brad&Boti podcast, and if you're a long-suffering Sixers fan - that last championship was 22 years ago - this is an interview you will want to hear. 

He's been in the 36ers' hotseat before but that was more than a decade ago and back then following three-time championship coach Phil Smyth meant he was on a hiding-to-nothing.

Smyth has been one of many associated with the club pushing to see Ninnis elevated from his temporary role as interim head honcho, which occurred with third-year coach CJ Bruton's early season sacking.

Steering his fragmented team into something which again resembled a cohesive unit, Ninnis' Adelaide went 8-7 and was very much in late-season calculations for post-season action.

Unfortuntaley there was no margin for error.

From the reluctant assistant to reluctant interim, Ninnis now fully has embraced holding the club's NBL reins for the next two years.

Best friend and 36ers icon Brett Maher was among the first to endorse him - though you wouldn't know it from some of Scotty's interview comments - and shooting star Dejan Vasiljevic another to say Ninnis was the man for the Sixers' permanent role.

Now he has the gig and as the only person actively connected to all four of the 36ers' championships - player in 1986 and 1998, assistant coach in 1999 and 2002 - his love for the club is likely second-to-none.

Unlike a couple of his predecessors, coaching Adelaide is not just a line on the resume or a task for the latest mercenary - for Scott Ninnis, it is about resurrecting the club for which he bleeds,

Hear Scotty talk of his plans, imports, recruiting, assistant coach situations and much more, simply by clicking this link. (For more about his life and career, you'll need to hit our Brad&Boti online home page and track down Episode 67.)

This interview is all about the now, and you also can find it at Apple Podcasts, or any of your other favourite podcast destinations, or again, simply by clicking this link. Enjoy the ride! We did.