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OCCASIONAL Australian captain and regular Opals starter, naturalised WNBA star Sami Whitcomb and the WNBL's Perth Lynx have "consciously uncoupled" with the combo guard likely en route to Townsville, replacing Lauren Nicholson who will complete the "round trip" by returning to Sydney.

Nicholson started with the Flames, became a league star in the Adelaide Lightning program and consolidated that standing with a championship at Townsville Fire.

Returning to play at Sydney under "interim" coach Guy Molloy - the adjective a legal requirement I believe, not unlike when Dan Shamir at the NBL's NZ Breakers was their "director of basketball" not "head coach" - would make sense for Nicholson at a club splashing around "incentives". (That's a legal term too...)

Reigning league MVP Cayla George and WNBL championship teammate and fellow Opal Tess Madgen are strongly tipped to rejoin their Melbourne Boomers' mentor Molloy at Sydney in a rapidfire Flames refit and rebuild.

The name of South Aussie league MVP in 2015 Abby Bishop is being whispered along the corridors at the Lightning where her past association as a championship teammate at Canberra with current Adelaide coach Nat Hurst could be a factor in luring her home.

Though what Australian basketball's G.O.A.T. Lauren Jackson chooses to do after religiously rehabbing her Achilles injury remains a big key as to what direction Southside Flyers will go.

Count on this though - the movement of free agents this off-season will be unprecedented.

SENSATIONAL SAMI: Sami Whitcomb, leaving Perth for Townsville ... or Europe.