Great Aussie Basketball Quiz Answers
HERE we go, your moment of truth if you yesterday had a crack at our first annual "Great Australian Basketball Quiz" WITHOUT consulting any search engines or other sources beyond your own knowledge and memory. It wasn't an easy quiz, although some of the questions should have been relatively manageable. One of them was a stumper though.
The Great Aussie Basketball Quiz
SO, you think you know all there is about Australian basketball. You know our connections to the NBA and WNBA, the histories of the Boomers and Opals, and, naturally, anything worth knowing of the NBL and WNBL, right? OK then, here it is! The first annual "Great Aussie Basketball Quiz" for fans of the game who think they know it all.
Bob's Corner: WNBA Done, now NBA fun
BOB'S CORNER: Our man in the US, BOB CRAVEN, is back on active duty, bringing us uptospeed on the end of the WNBA season and the grand opening of the NBA, featuring 224cm Victor Wembanyama for the San Antonio Spurs and 216cm OKC pivot Chet Holmgren.
Taipans set for NBL-NBA debut
CAIRNS Taipans and their NBL arch rival New Zealand Breakers will continue the tradition of preseason matches against NBA opposition when they head to the US in October for games involving the Toronto Raptors, Matisse Thybulle’s Portland Trail Blazers and Washington Wizards.
Miami catches Nuggets to level NBA championship
IT was business as usual for Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets in the first game of the NBA Finals, but it came to an abrupt halt in Game 2 when the Miami Heat struck back with a withering final quarter avalanche to tie the best-of-7 championship at 1-1 as the series shifts to Florida.
Nuggets-Heat now chasing NBA history
LED by "point centre" Nikola Jokic and ably assisted by Jamal Murray, the Denver Nuggets swept away LeBron James and the LA Lakers in four straight games to win the Western Conference title and advance to the NBA Finals where Miami kept its appointment by today finally seeing off Boston.
Bob's Corner: NBA at the 'Final Four' stage
BOB'S CORNER: The NBA has progressed through to the best-of-7 Conference Finals and our man on the spot, Bob Craven, has the latest as the Denver Nuggets, LA Lakers in the West, Boston Celtics and Miami Heat in the East prepare to go to war to determine who will battle out the Final.
Whitcomb talks motherhood and basketball
WEEKEND FEATURE: Reprinted from the Seattle Times. Storm’s Sami Whitcomb finds balance between motherhood and basketball: ‘It’s all worth it’
Bob's Corner: Jade has Seattle's green light
BOB'S CORNER: Our man in the US, Bob Craven, is a Seattle native and so follows the WNBA's Storm - and its often Aussie-impacted roster - with particular dilligence. For this weekend's "Corner" he's forwarded a piece from the Seattle Times on our own Jade Melbourne.
Ragin' KB into Louisiana Basketball Hall of Fame
KEVIN Brooks played NBA with Denver Nuggets, won two NBL championships and a Larry Sengstock Medal with Adelaide 36ers, coached Woodville Warriors to a BasketballSA men's championship, with a host of other accolades to boot. This weekend, he goes into the Louisiana Basketball Hall of Fame.