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Brad&Boti: Fire up Townsville. Champs spark it 2-0

TOWNSVILLE Fire has claimed its fifth WNBL Championship after winning one of the greatest games in WNBL history, and podcast colleague Brad Rosen and I revel in their success at this week's Brad&Boti episode, with commiserations to a gallant Perth but the better club won.

Aye Claudia, the Jewel in Tassie's crown

WNBL championship-winning coach Claudia Brassard is back as head coach of the new Tasmania Jewels club after beating out a rich field which included names such as Chambers, Molloy and Herbert, the Sydney Olympian bringing more than a decade's worth of coaching experience to the role.

So what? Sowah at wire for Lynx triple jinx

A MASSIVE offensive rebound and assist by Chantel Horvat followed by a match tying 3-point bomb from Miela Sowah forcing overtime, tonight underpinned Townsville's fifth WNBL championship success when it rocked the Lynx 108-105 in Perth in one of the all-time great Grand Finals.

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.

Philippines push NZ, now for the Boomers

WITH a fairly impressive Tall Blacks line-up only squeezing past the Philippines 69-66 in Manila last night, the stage is set for a torrid time on Sunday for the Boomers, who only took the second quarter to KO Guam in their FIBA World Cup Asian qualifier in Mangilao Village, Tanner Krebs the match star.

Caught in the Woods, Perth loses its way

COURTNEY Woods' Grand Final Game 1 tour de force tonight in front of a sold-out Townsville Entertainment Centre crowd underpinned a quality home victory and has sent the Perth Lynx crashing back to the whiteboard figuring out what their Plan B is when the 3-point shooters falter.

Brad&Boti: A week chock full of activity

THE WNBL Championship Series, upshot of the semis, end of the NBL regular season, the award announcements and Ignite Cup Final, the Boomers in FIBA action - Brad Rosen and I have plenty to ponder at this week's Brad&Boti podcast, and we get right down to it from tip-off!

Basketball rallying for great cause Saturday

Six of the best for Aussie Bryce

BRYCE Cotton tonight moved within one Most Valuable Player win of forcing a name change onto the NBL's highest individual award to the "Andrew Gaze-Bryce Cotton MVP" after pipping Kendric Davis and claming his sixth crown, albeit his first as a "true blue" Aussie.

Mic drop? Er, no. Final is Fire-Lynx, as expected

CALL them pundits, experts, WNBL watchers but the truth is most everyone without a team-based bias had the Han Xu-boosted Perth Lynx playing Townsville Fire for the championship long ago, with only Kelsey Griffin's classy defending champion Bendigo Spirit also in the conversation as the "what if" possibility.