V for Vendetta...er, Victoria
AT what point will the NBL narrative, which insists on painting Wright as a perennially angry man, finally show him in anything other than a blinkered, self-serving light?
G4: And Game 5 here we go
ROARED on by the loudest crowd at Titanium Security Arena since its 1994 grand final with North Melbourne, the Adelaide 36ers today forced the NBL championship series into a deciding fifth game with a 90-81 win over Melbourne United.
CG43 'can't hear 36ers crowd anymore'
MELBOURNE United captain Chris Goulding, who 36ers fans reduced to a shell of himself in the 2014 semi finals in Adelaide, claims he can’t hear the Titanium Security Arena crowd anymore.
Conflict of interest? Or human nature?
LARRY Kestelman has done wonders for the National Basketball League but his conflict of interest as league owner and also club owner of Melbourne United and Brisbane Bullets make perceptions of favouritism impossible to avoid.
G3: United one win from championship
MELBOURNE tonight clasped one hand on the NBL's Dr John Raschke Trophy and hung on grimly to win the pivotal Game 3 of its best-of-five Grand Final Series 101-98, Game 4 in Adelaide on Sunday.
36ers look for overall lift
ADELAIDE will not look to any specific individual to “step up” tomorrow night against Melbourne in the injury-enforced absence of its NBA forward Josh Childress.
Casper can't find Shorter's ghost
MELBOURNE United's All Star Five (First Team) point guard Casper Ware has fired back at Adelaide's fellow import playmaker Shannon Shorter as tensions between the NBL grand finalists continue to grow.
Truly, 4-0 didn't mean a thing
YOU'RE still going to keep hearing it and reading about it but truthfully, Melbourne's 4-0 regular season sweep of the 36ers means absolutely nothing to this already enthralling best-of-five NBL Grand Final. Josh Childress' injury does.
Childress out of championship series
NEW scans of Josh Childress' injured left shoulder have revealed a scapula fracture which can take up to six weeks to heal, ruling him out of the remaining games in the NBL's best-of-five Grand Final.
Let's be serious - officiating is bizarre
IT was Adelaide coach Joey Wright after Game 1 bemused by officiating for the NBL's best-of-five Grand Final, then Melbourne's Coach of the Year Dean Vickerman unable to work it out after Game 2.