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BRAD&BOTI: The 2024-25 WNBL season tips off tonight when league newcomer and babyface Geelong United clashes with Townsville Fire, and joining Brad Rosen and myself on our Brad&Boti podcast to review it all is Opals captain Tess Madgen.

Recently hanging up her playing shoes after a stellar career which included captaining the Opals to bronze medals at the 2022 FIBA World Cup and this year's Paris Olympics, Tess was the perfect new media observer to walk us through who is who in the WNBL this year.

Melbourne Boomers are gone, Geelong now giving Victoria two regionally-based clubs and leaving the capital with defending champion Southside Flyers to fly the flag.

Tess will bring her knowledge and insikghts to the television coverage as one of its new callers and if the research and knowledge she reveals on our podcast is any indication, this is just another area in which she will thrive.

Who will the winners of Round 1 be out of Geelong v Townsville, Adelaide Lightning at Bendigo Spirit, the grand final rematch of Southside Flyers at Perth Lynx and the newlook Sydney Flames against the burgeoning talent of Canberra Capitals and charismatic leader Jade Melbourne.

Who does Tess have for the MVP?

There's all this and more and that's even before we turn our focus to the NBL and all that went down in another huge and controversial round. Should Illawarra Hawks coach Justin Tatum have copped that retrospective technical foul which helped decide the thriller against Melbourne?

Is Cairns cooked? Is Brisbane baloney? Is Sydney stymied?

We've got a lot to say and less time to say it than usual but we have our Top 6 picks and also sneak in a Rosen Rattler and Nagy Nasty.

All this and more awaits by clicking this link, or, if you prefer, head to Apple of Spotify for your Brad&Boti fix.