Cairns and New Zealand are in the top three nearing the halfway mark of NBL23. How have they surged to contention? What's going on in Illawarra and has Adelaide returned from the FIBA break with a new identity? Also, Ben Simmons looks back, with some of the numbers suggesting he is on the path to playing like his old self ... just in time for a return to Philly.

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