{"id":25447,"date":"2021-11-26T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T03:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/?p=25447"},"modified":"2021-11-26T20:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T10:22:29","slug":"wnbl-2021-22-season-preview-melbourne-boomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wnbl-2021-22-season-preview-melbourne-boomers\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBL 2021\/22 Season Preview &#8211; Melbourne Boomers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>THE 2021 Women&#8217;s National Basketball League (WNBL) returns on December 4, meaning it is time for our season previews to begin. Today is the Melbourne Boomers, who finished fourth in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-melbourne-boomers\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Melbourne Boomers<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2020 Finish: <\/strong>4th<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recruits: <\/strong>Lily Scanlon, Lindsay Allen (WNBA), Lou Brown, Sophie Burrows (Diamond Valley Eagles), Tess Heal, Tiffany Mitchell (WNBA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Squad list:<br><\/strong>Cayla George<br>Ezi Magbegor<br>Izzy Wright<br>Lily Scanlon<br>Lindsay Allen<br>Lou Brown<br>Penina Davidson<br>Rachel Brewster<br>Sophie Burrows<br>Tess Heal<br>Tess Madgen<br>Tiffany Mitchell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the third season in a row, the Boomers made the finals without making the Grand Final, and heading into 2021\/22 they will be desperately trying to end their 12-season long title drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have retained their experienced core trio of <a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"389\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/basketball\/player\/cayla-george\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cayla George<\/a>, <a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"4160\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/basketball\/player\/ezi-magbegor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ezi Magbegor<\/a> and <a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"420\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/basketball\/player\/tess-madgen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tess Madgen<\/a>, but have also added the likes of <a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"388\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/basketball\/player\/lindsay-allen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lindsay Allen<\/a> and <strong>Tiffany Mitchell<\/strong> from the WNBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE 2021 Women&#8217;s National Basketball League (WNBL) returns on December 4, meaning it is time for our season previews to begin. Today is the Melbourne Boomers, who finished fourth in 2020. Melbourne Boomers 2020 Finish: 4th Recruits: Lily Scanlon, Lindsay Allen (WNBA), Lou Brown, Sophie Burrows (Diamond Valley Eagles), Tess Heal, Tiffany Mitchell (WNBA) Squad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10000,"featured_media":18119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2871,5886,11],"tags":[177,29,196,590,266,1972],"class_list":["post-25447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-season-preview","category-wnbl","tag-cayla-george","tag-ezi-magbegor","tag-lindsay-allen","tag-melbourne-boomers","tag-tess-madgen","tag-wnbl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25472,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25447\/revisions\/25472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}