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The season has hit the halfway mark, and the ladder still hasn’t worked itself yet. By the luxury of playing the most games, Sydney is leading, but one game separates the rest of the seven teams. Will the season continue with this crazy close ladder or will some teams go on winning streaks to create…
Read More11 years, 22 days. 577 weeks. 4,040 days. 96,960 hours. 349,056,000 seconds. That’s how long it has taken for the Illawarra Hawks to defeat the Perth Wildcats in Western Australia. Led by Glen Saville, Cortez Groves, and Adam Ballinger, the Hawks won 119-92 to start one of the longest droughts in NBL history. That…
Read MoreIt’s an excellent time to be an NBL basketball fan. The talent level is as good as it has ever been but the league is still mostly equal. Excluding the first placed Sydney Kings and the last on the table Adelaide 36ers, every another team has a net point rating of only one basket. A…
Read MoreAnother topsy-turvy week. We had a blackout where the laws of basketball were called into question, an overtime thriller between one of the best rivalries in the sport and a couple of legends returning to their old stomping ground. In a win for equality, second and second last are only separated by two wins. …
Read MoreHands up all of you who thought Melbourne United would be on the bottom of the ladder after nine games? Not many. After five rounds the Victorian side has only three wins from nine games. Compare that to last season when they were still undefeated. They’re not only losing; the players’ attitude is rubbish, and…
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The New Zealand Breakers came away from Melbourne with a nail-biting 98-92 overtime victory, but it has cost them their starting point guard. Import Ben Woodside ruptured his plantar fascia in in the game’s closing moments and faces at least two months on the sideline. The Breakers have made quick moves, however, many…
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We all knew that Kevin Lisch was going to get that basketball. He wanted it, Andrew Gaze called the play and gave him the go ahead and in the dying seconds, Kings captain Kevin Lisch nailed a clutch buzzer-beating jumper with 0.3 seconds left on the clock to cap a thrilling 79-77 Sydney Kings win…
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In my humble opinion, Boti Nagy is the number one basketball writer in Australia. A published author, a regular contributor to multiple news outlets and historian of our game. But I’m not sure I agree with his most recent piece regarding the NBL repeating the same mistakes of the past. The article addresses the concern…
Read MoreA home cooked meal and a familiar bed will do wonders for a team, with this season’s Cairns Taipans being a textbook example. Their first three games were on the road they were beaten comprehensibly. Fast forward to after round four where they defeated Melbourne comfortably in their opening home game and then took that…
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The Sydney Kings continued their winning ways with another sizzling 87-78 come from behind victory against the Brisbane Bullets. Superstar import Steve Blake debuted at the Qudos Bank Arena on Sunday and was instrumental in assisting his new teammates to secure their fifth straight win and cementing the Kings on top of the NBL ladder. …
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