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Phil grills me on the greats at his podcast

RECENTLY enjoyed a tremendous time as a guest on the podcast of four-time Boomers Olympian and national captain, three-time NBL championship-winning player and three-time NBL championship-winning coach Phil Smyth, before he headed to Melbourne for the Legends Game for bowel cancer research.

Temporary Emergency Site Shutdown

DUE to a sudden tragedy, Basketball On The Internet will shut down for a week, possibly longer, while we deal with these unforeseen circumstances. Apologies for any inconvenience. I hope to be back and reigniting the blog by Sunday, November 30. Thanks for your support, be well and tell the ones you love that you love them.

'Elite 8' to join BasketballSA Hall of Fame

BASKETBALL SA will induct eight new faces into its prestigious Hall of Fame in an official  ceremony on Thursday, breaking slightly from tradition with no team inducted this year and no-one elevated to "Legend" status ... but only because its nominees were such incredible stand-outs.

The long hunt is over for Jordan

IT was worth the wait for Woodville captain Jordan Hunter, the former playmaker of the New Zealand Tall Ferns who finally won an NBL1 Central crown tonight as her Warriors made history, taking down Sturt 73-65 in the grand final at Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

Grand farewell to sporting icon Erin

SHE won two WNBA championships, led Adelaide Lightning to the WNBL crown in 2008, was an Opals Olympian AND a FIBA world champion all before she became the face of AFLW at Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide. Tomorrow night, Erin Phillips plays her final match of competitive sport in the NBL1 Central women's grand final.

Long and winding road for Lightning

THE old "third time lucky" mantra may need upgrading for the WNBL's storied Adelaide Lightning franchise, saved from extinction for the fourth time now but in Melanie MacGillivray, securing arguably the best credentialled CEO currently at any level of basketball in Australia.

RIP Barrie Robran, the greatest of the greats

IT is incredibly sad that on the same day the late Roger King's life as an SA basketball great was being remembered and celebrated, the state's footballing icon Barrie Robran died, further closing the book on what can only be revered as arguably the greatest era of sport anyone aged near 60 can recall.

Roger King Memorial

Roger was a king during SA's greatest era

RETIRING from fulltime writing in 2017, I penned a career retrospective and arrived at the conclusion Werner Linde nudged Brett Maher as the greatest South Australian basketballer I was lucky enough to chronicle. That said, if Werner was our 60s-70s superstar a la Michael Jordan, then Roger King was that era's Scottie Pippen.

RIP Southern pioneer Jeff Carey

ONE of the founding fathers of the Southern Tigers Basketball Association - previously Noarlunga City Tigers, Glenelg Tigers, Centrals and CY - and a leader of the sport in South Australia, Jeff Carey, died last Thursday, aged 83. A renowned coach and administrator, Jeff was a life member of both NCT and BASA.