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‘Greatest’: Fire crowned WNBL champs after OT thriller against Perth Lynx
An emotional Shannon Seebohm has heralded Townsville’s 108-105 victory against Perth as one of the greatest post-season games ever, after a battered Courtney Woods spearheaded the Fire to another WNBL title.
- AAP
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Geelong one day, Super Bowl the next: The WNBL star bolting across the globe for her family
WNBL star Alissa Pili will join her nine siblings and parents for the trip of a lifetime to watch her brother Brandon play for Seattle in the Super Bowl on Monday AEDT.
- Roy Ward
Alanna Smith had the best year of her WNBA career. The league is falling apart
Last month, Alanna Smith was named the WNBA co-defensive player of the year. Next month, she might get shut out of playing in the league.
- Frances Howe
Ten years since a near-death experience, the NBL is as happy as Larry
When the NBL was on the verge of collapsing, a saviour emerged who had never been to a game previously. Now, he’s poised to take over the national women’s competition as well.
- Greg Baum
She’s played at four Olympics, but this hoops legend has never felt so much pressure
She might be an all-time great, but Lauren Jackson has never felt so much pressure as she did before Australia’s Olympic basketball teams for Paris were announced. Like Patty Mills and Joe Ingles, she’s off to her fifth Games.
- Roy Ward
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- Paris 2024
‘We have to earn it’: How Opals, Boomers could realise their Paris medal dreams
Australia will head to Paris with dreams of stunning the USA and winning gold. But with world basketball growing ever-stronger, the Opals and Boomers will be tested like never before.
- Roy Ward
‘Super special’: Opals dominate despite Jackson’s struggles as she looks ahead to fifth Games
The Opals scored another big win over one of the benchmarks of world basketball and stand-in coach Cheryl Chambers senses something special is building ahead of Paris 2024.
- Roy Ward
Jackson ‘the fittest she has ever been’ as teen Opal dreams of Paris
A super-fit Lauren Jackson continues to wow her Opals teammates and coaches including teenage teammate Izzy Borlase who could be joining Jackson in Paris.
- Roy Ward
‘Girls deserve better’: Billionaire businessman, Tesla chair take over WNBL
Billionaire Larry Kestelman and Tesla Motors chair Robyn Denholm will overhaul the Women’s National Basketball League after striking a deal with Basketball Australia.
- Jon Pierik
From Moe to the big stage: The Aussie staring down basketball’s record-breaking phenom Caitlin Clark
Moe’s Jaz Shelley is one of the Australians riding the exploding popularity of US women’s college basketball, playing in front of millions and hoping to lead Nebraska to a fairytale run in “March Madness”.
- Roy Ward