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Sep
Full Analysis
Buy, buy, buy: Two NBL imports scream SuperCoach 'Cash Cows'
Brisbane Bullets’ Arnas Velicka warms up before the 2026 NBL Blitz match against the Tasmania JackJumpers at Red Energy Arena in Bendigo on September 3, 2026. Photo: Morgan Hancock/Getty Images for NBL.
Arnas Velicka and Josh Oduro both cost $277,000, and the Blitz says both are worth about double.
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Two new imports have rocketed to the top of the SuperCoach NBL Classic “Cash Cows” list (below) after back-to-back points-crushing performances at the NBL27 Blitz in Bendigo.
Brisbane Bullets Lithuanian point guard Arnas Velicka ($277,000) and Melbourne United forward Josh Oduro ($277,000) delivered +23.8 points and +17.3 points against their starting salary cap base prices. They have “Cash Cow” written all over them.
Both cost $277,000 because it’s their first season in the NBL.
Velicka, 26, is Bullets new head coach Will Weaver’s prized recruit. He averaged 50.5 SC points in two games (hard to maintain, obviously), and that puts his calculated value at a cap-busting $523,000 (+$246,000).
Oduro, 25, will start in Jacob Chance’s rebuilt United frontcourt, emerging as a stats-stuffer supreme in the club’s NBL27 Blitz pre-season championship run.
The American averaged 44.0 points in two games, which would put him right around Bryce Cotton ($473,900) money at $456,000.
Elijah Pepper ($202,700) is John Rillie's highest-usage guard of the tournament, on the floor 32.8 minutes a game, more than anyone else in this price range, and he opened with a 40 against Cairns. He averaged 31.0 points in two games, which puts his calculated value at $322,000 (+$119,300).
Max Mackinnon ($200,000) is the rookie Will Weaver keeps starting, with a Boomers debut in front of him. He averaged 28.5 points in two games, including a 32 against Tasmania, which puts his calculated value at $295,000 (+$95,000).
Import Nick Rakocevic ($188,400) is the cheapest frontcourt body in Trevor Gleeson's rotation and the one who rebounds, 13 of them in a single game against Cairns. He averaged 27.5 points in two games, which puts his calculated value at $286,000 (+$97,600).
Import Milton Doyle ($274,700) – new club, potentially more responsibility. He is the only one of the six with NBL career form, priced off a 26.5 average, and he beat it anyway. He hit the game-winner against Adelaide and went 6-for-9 from outside in the decider, averaging 35.5 points in two games, which puts his calculated value at $367,000 (+$92,300).
SuperCoach NBL27: what every price says a player should score, and what he has actually done
Why it starts at $175,000. A player on the minimum price is credited with about six points a game, so any cheap player with minutes shows a big gap. The Cheapie Bible covers them.
How the claim is worked out, and how to read the gap
How the claim is worked out. Take the players the game priced off a real NBL26 record and the prices sit on a straight line against their averages. Run that line backwards from any price and it gives the average that price is charging for. It is the game’s own sum rather than ours: SuperCoach publishes a round-one breakeven for every player, and the same working reproduces it on 139 of the 141 it publishes, the other two out by one from rounding. We check both every time this table is built.
Read it carefully. A player priced off NBL26 is carrying last season’s average as his claim, so his gap is really Blitz form against last season. A player priced on nothing is carrying a number the game guessed. Those are different things and the table keeps them apart. 8 of the 34 rows are a single game, and minutes are shown so a short outing is not mistaken for a settled average. The widest gaps either way are Arnas Velicka at +23.8 and Darius Days at -18.7. Two players took the floor at the Blitz who are not in the SuperCoach game at all and so have no price to test: Peitok Machar and Sam Davidson.
Tap a name for his SuperCoach profile. The names are links; the numbers beside them are not. Prices were taken at 6:12am AEST, 3 September 2026 and are deliberately fixed on this page, because two of these columns are worked out from the price and would quietly disagree with it if it moved underneath them. Nothing at the Blitz changes a price anyway: the pre-season is not scored.
Code Sports NBL Blitz 2026, Red Energy Arena, Bendigo. Figures correct at 5:56am AEST, 7 September 2026.
Don’t fall into the Over-Valued Trap!
The Cash Cows table below has multiple players – stars and starters – as loss-makers. Remember, it was the pre-season, and their minutes will go up in NBL27. Even so, they are important data points for your SuperCoach team selections.
Darius Days ($277,000) is the sharpest of them. Illawarra gave him 12.4 minutes against Adelaide and 10.6 in the decider against Melbourne, and behind the flat import price sit 33 NBL25 games for the same club at 19.5 minutes a night. He averaged 8.0 points in two games, which puts his calculated value at $83,000 (-$194,000).
Jordan Hunter ($224,800) played both of South East Melbourne's games and got 15.5 minutes, then 15.2, against the 20.2 a night over 37 NBL26 games that set his price. Neither game was poor, and neither was long. He averaged 10.0 points in two games, which puts his calculated NBL27 Blitz value at $104,000 (-$120,800).
Yannis Morin ($277,000) carries the flat $277,000 with no NBL season measure against, and five days gave us nothing to revise upward: 16.6 minutes against Sydney, 13.1 against Brisbane. He averaged 13.5 points in two games, which puts his calculated value at $140,000 (-$137,000).
Todd Blanchfield ($123,800) is the one the maths breaks on. He played 7.2 minutes against Adelaide for a minus-two, then 11.0 minutes against Melbourne, compared to the 18.0 minutes per game in the 32 NBL26 games his price was built on. He averaged 1.5 points in two games, which calculates to $16,000, below the $58,500 floor the game will not price under. Read his value as the floor of $58,500 (-$65,300); it’s a warning, not a number.
Four of the 10 cannot carry a figure honestly, and they are listed here with the reason rather than the arithmetic. Sam Waardenburg ($277,500) was the best of Melbourne's bigs in the one game he finished, 25 points in 22.6 minutes against Perth, then lasted 3.5 minutes of the decider before the ankle. His two-game average of 15.5 is half a good game and half an injury, so the $161,000 it calculates to is not a valuation of anything.
Dylan Windler ($271,100) played 21.9 minutes for 11 against Cairns and did not appear against Melbourne. Malique Lewis ($207,900) played once, 14.2 minutes for 12. Josiah-Jordan James ($277,000) had 26.9 minutes and 20 points against Sydney, then 7.5 minutes against Tasmania.
