20
Sep
Free Burgers
Tracking every patty-producing pair of bricks in NBL27
basketball.com.au Free Cheeseburger Tracker
Every away-team double miss that wins a free Hungry Jack's Cheeseburger, tracked all NBL27 season.
- All 165 games of the NBL27 season in one list
- Every NBL27 roster, squad list and projected depth chart
- Every injured NBL player, with expected return dates
Some players brick free throws. Others cater. When a visiting NBL27 free throw shooter clanks two in a row on the same trip, the nation does not boo –it drools, because that miss is flame-grilled generosity with cheese.
Grab the codeword, ketchup before the round ends.
We are tracking every patty-producing pair of bricks in NBL27, plus the near misses that leave you holding nothing but buns.
🍔 The NBL27 Cheeseburger Tracker
| 🍔 | Player | Team | Opponent | When | Result | Recap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Rakocevic | Adelaide 36ersADL | Melbourne UnitedMEL | Q1 08:00 | Codeword | Match report | |
| Zylan Cheatham | Adelaide 36ersADL | Melbourne UnitedMEL | Q1 03:08 | Codeword | Match report | |
| Angus Glover | South East Melbourne PhoenixSEM | Perth WildcatsPER | Q1 00:07 | Codeword | Match report | |
| Keanu Pinder | Cairns TaipansCNS | Sydney KingsSYD | Q1 05:21 | Codeword | Game in progress | |
| Cole Anthony | Melbourne UnitedMEL | Adelaide 36ersADL | Q4 04:22 | No – home team | Match report | |
| Jo Lual-Acuil Jr | Perth WildcatsPER | South East Melbourne PhoenixSEM | Q3 06:53 | No – home team | Match report | |
| Kristian Doolittle | Perth WildcatsPER | South East Melbourne PhoenixSEM | Q3 05:49 | No – home team | Match report |
Four of the seven double misses in NBL27 so far have revealed a codeword. Three did not, and in every one of those cases the player was at home – which is the whole rule, and the reason some of what looks like a burger is not one.
All four came in the first quarter, and Nick Rakocevic got there first: Adelaide 36ers at Melbourne United, with 08:00 on the clock.
Triggers are uncapped and your voucher is not. There is no “first pair only” wording anywhere in the terms, so every qualifying pair reveals a codeword – but the cap is on the fan, at one voucher per registered NBL account per round. A round with four triggers in it still buys you one burger. This table counts triggers, because triggers are what happened on the floor.
How to read this table, and how a burger is won
Under clause 6 of the promotion’s terms, a codeword is revealed when a player from the away team misses two consecutive free throws in a single penalty during an eligible game. All three conditions have to hold, and the away rule is doing almost all of the disqualifying.
Side is taken from the league’s own match record for each fixture, not from which score appears first on a scoreboard graphic and not from how the fixture was described in conversation. It is the column that decides every row here.
A single penalty is the terms’ own wording, and it means one visit to the line – the whole set of shots awarded off the one foul, whether that is one shot, two or three. A miss in the first quarter and a miss in the third are two separate penalties. On a three-shot penalty, missing the first and the third is not consecutive. And an and-one is a single free throw, so it can never trigger anything on its own.
An eligible game is an NBL 2026/27 regular-season game played in Australia. Pre-season cannot produce a codeword. Neither can a game at a New Zealand venue: no Breakers home game in Auckland can ever trigger a cheeseburger, no matter who misses. That is 14 of the season’s 165 fixtures outside the promotion, rising to 16 if two venues still listed as TBC turn out to be in Auckland. The exclusion is about the venue, not the club – all 17 Breakers away games are in Australia and every one of them is live.
When is the quarter and the game clock remaining at the penalty, as recorded in the official play-by-play. Our free throw count is reconciled against the official box score for every game before anything is published here: 90 free throws in the play-by-play, 90 in the box scores, across 2 completed games. One row below is from a game still being played, so it has not yet been checked against a final box score.
This table covers the NBL only. The terms we can see define the eligible game as an NBL game, call the prize an NBL voucher, and enforce eligibility through a registered NBL account. The league’s explainer article says the promotion also runs across the WNBL season; the terms do not mention the WNBL anywhere. Where the two disagree we follow the terms, so we are not claiming WNBL coverage until terms covering it are published.
Vouchers are administered by the promoters, National Basketball League Pty Ltd and Hungry Jack’s Pty Ltd, not by us. This page tracks what happened on the floor. It does not issue anything, and it is not a substitute for the promotion’s own terms.
What you need to know
- Only away-team players trigger it, and only two misses in a row
- Games played in New Zealand are excluded, so Breakers home games never count
- Triggers are uncapped but you can claim one voucher per round
A player goes to the free throw line. Nobody is allowed to guard them. They get two shots.
If they miss both, and they play for the visiting team, a secret word appears. You will see it on TV and on the big screen at the arena.
You type that word into the NBL app. Soon after, you get an email with a link in it. That link gets you a free cheeseburger.
That is the whole thing.
The bits that catch people out
It has to be the visiting team. A home player can miss two in a row and nothing happens at all. Same miss, no burger.
The two misses have to be back to back, on the same trip to the line. Miss, make, miss does not count.
You only get one burger per round, however many times it happens. If three different players do it over the same weekend, that is still one burger for you. The limit is on you, not on the games.
Sign up first or the link never arrives. You need the NBL app, and you need to be signed up for NBL emails. The email is how the voucher reaches you.
Type the word in before the round ends. You have until 11:59pm on the day of the last game of that round. After that the word is worthless.
Then use the voucher fast. It dies at 11:59pm the day after you get it. Not a week. The next day.
You cannot use the kiosk. Order in the app, or show the code to a person at the front counter. If you are ordering in the app there is a one dollar minimum.
Games in New Zealand do not count. If you are at Spark Arena watching a visiting player miss two in a row, no word is coming. The Breakers' away games in Australia are fine.
Pre-season does not count either. Regular season only.
