The NBL is hopeful its season will start as scheduled on Friday night but the WNBL has been forced to delay Perth Lynx’s start to the season due to WA’s border restrictions.
Dual sports star Monique Conti already has a decorated AFLW resume,but this pre-season campaign has been unique for the hard-running midfielder.
Star Opal Liz Cambage was involved in altercation with the Nigerian team leading into the Tokyo Olympics,leading to an investigation and now hearing before a Basketball Australia panel.
Australian WNBA basketballer Shyla Heal learned of the Sky’s brutal roster move to cut her while at the airport and preparing to board a team flight.
After being drafted by the Chicago Sky,Shyla Heal was congratulated by Charles Barkley,for whom a pre-Olympics run-in with her father Shane Heal is still fresh in the memory 25 years on.
From the Opals qualifying for Tokyo to NBL grand final controversies onto Liz Cambage's triumphant WNBL return and Andrew Bogut's retirement – 2020 was a wild year for basketball.
Southside Flyers were challenged early but overran the Townsville Fire to win the WNBL grand final on Sunday.
Southside Flyers will start the WNBL grand final as unbackable favourites but star guard Bec Cole says her side will take a"do or die"attitude into the game.
Shyla Heal had 28 points,five rebounds and two steals as her match-winning performance saw Fire to a 65-62 win over Melbourne Boomers in Friday's preliminary final in Townsville.
Southside Flyers are into the WNBL grand final while Melbourne Boomers will fight on this season after knocking out the Canberra Capitals in Wednesday night's elimination final.
Ezi Magbegor will play in her third finals series of 2020 in the WNBL semi-finals but it was the lessons learned off the court from her WNBA teammates that could leave the biggest imprint.