The SA Shotclock is back for another week including the latest on SA’s local basketball leagues including NBL1 Central and the off season of the NBL & WNBL season.

Its awards season and the SA Shotclock are giving out their MVP for the 2026 season in the NBL1 Central Mens and Womens - who's taken them out this season?

One of our winners joins us on the show for a chat... 

TP and Hoppo chat the last round of the season and who out of the outside looking in can make the leap back into finals contention quicker than others plus preview the huge remaining three finals tonight and breakdown the Mens Elimination Final between the Woodville Warriors and the Central Districts Lions.    

Plus SA Basketball News with some WNBL SA signings both here and interstate, Opals versus China series and the Adelaide Thunder update as their next lot of home games is not too far away.

And one last announcement that we are sure fans of the show and basketball podcast listeners are going to love!!!

With the final minor round of the NBL1 Central - one of the brightest players of the season joins us on the show - the faith based driven Devin Fortune is one of a few diamonds in the rough in the NBL1 Central 2026 out of College Division 3 in the States. Fortune shares about his life and how faith interlock, early basketball life and how he met the love of his life and were shown they were meant for each other. 

Fortune also touches on with TP about the Tigers transition of brand and play style, the teething, the challenges but ultimately the change of culture and approach the club has taken this season as they prepare for their final game against the Woodville Warriors. Some gold moments with the yellow and black stripes of the Southern Tigers power forward for your listening delight.

The SA Shotclock is back for another week including the latest on SA’s local basketball leagues including NBL1 Central and the off season of the NBL & WNBL season.

With First Nations Round ahead of us these next two weeks in the NBL1 Central one of the rising indigenous talents of the league Ambah Kowcun joins us on the show - originally a Forestville Eagle junior who took the college path playing at North Dakota State College of Science, Wichita State Athletics before finishing her graduate year at the Eastern Kentucky Colonels in 2025 - she was swooped on by the Woodville Warriors helping guide the Warriors to an inaugural championship last season.

TP and Ambah chat culture, basketball life from Northern Australia and the transitions of environment over the last decade culminating in an important role with the Woodville Warriors at the back end of the NBL1 Central season. 

Plus we review double header in the Round 13 in the Mitsubishi Motors NBL1 Central and preview Round 14 plus with 6 teams in Womens and 8 in Mens still able to make finals - TP has the lowdown on how any of these teams can make it to the final five and finals for 2026.   

With First Nations Round ahead of us these next two weeks in the NBL1 Central one of the rising indigenous talents of the league Ambah Kowcun joins us on the show - originally a Forestville Eagle junior who took the college path playing at North Dakota State College of Science, Wichita State Athletics before finishing her graduate year at the Eastern Kentucky Colonels in 2025 - she was swooped on by the Woodville Warriors helping guide the Warriors to an inaugural championship last season.

TP and Ambah chat culture, basketball life from Northern Australia and the transitions of environment over the last decade culminating in an important role with the Woodville Warriors at the back end of the NBL1 Central season

The SA Shotclock is back for another week including the latest on SA’s local basketball leagues including NBL1 Central and the off season of the NBL & WNBL season.


It's a huge week in the City of Churches as the secret is finally out that Adelaide will host the NBL1 National Finals 2026 in August - we chat to GM of the NBL1 Tyrone Thwaites, New CEO of Basketball SA in Ben MacCormack and two players who could feature in August in West Adelaide Bearcats Coco Hodges and South Adelaide Panthers Rio Bruton. 

Trystan Spooner from NBL1 West joins TP to dissect the possible National Finals teams across all conferences with plenty of homecomings, players reunited from their WNBL and NBL teams and head to head matchups of interest that could happen.

Plus we review a crucial Round 12 in the Mitsubishi Motors NBL1 Central and preview all twenty games of a do or die double header weekend in Round 13 of the league.  

The SA Shotclock is back for another week including the latest on SA’s local basketball leagues including NBL1 Central and the off season of the NBL & WNBL season.

TP is joined by special guest from the North Adelaide Rockets Kaden Archie - an acrobatic specialist with a set of skills who has helped elevate his side to their targets in 2026. Kaden has had quite the storied career already - and some pretty famous teammates both here and overseas.

One of the interviews of the season also brought up the balance of competitiveness versus respect and culture as several people and moments "Arch" has been on teams with and part of gains a platform worth the discussion. Arch was also good to be a part of our first mini-game on the show in "Team your know" - how will he fare??? 

Plus TP and Arch wrap the results of Round 11 before then giving us predictions for Round 12 in a crucial set of must win games for a majority of both the Womens and the Mens in their finals aspirations.

The SA Shotclock is back for another week including the latest on SA’s local basketball leagues including NBL1 Central and the off season of the NBL & WNBL season.

TP is joined by regular co-host Jarryd Hoppo to run through the SA Shotclock All-Star Weekend for its fourth season - where based on the first half of the season we select four conference teams from both North and South based teams in Womens and Mens that we'd love to see play each other plus some extra fantasy teams we'd like to play exhibition games.

Who made it in, who returns and who just missed out are all covered in the hotly anticipated debate before TP gives us his predictions for Round 11     

Plus SA Basketball News and the highlights of Junior Classics and Australian selection for our very best in the state.

The SA Shotclock is back for another week including the latest on SA’s local basketball leagues including NBL1 Central and the off season of the NBL & WNBL season.

TP is joined for the NBL1 Central heritage week by a man that saw plenty of the 2010s including a club's minor successes - Tom Giles joins the show as a well versed man who's seen both sides of the sporting spectrum through his SA Basketball Premier League and NBL1 stint and takes us through the mentality of clubs where they might be heading and where they might be after the double header weekend.

TP takes off to Adelaide Airport to "The Terminal" to see who's flown in after the mid-season break and who's headed off (or heading off) after the break.     

Plus SA Basketball News and preview of all 20 games of NBL1 Central action this weekend...