The NBL grand final series between the Melbourne Tigers and Sydney Kings earlier this year was the best the competition has ever seen.
It wasn't just the Melbourne versus Sydney rivalry that made it the greatest of all time, but this series featured many sub plots and had more twists and turns than a Ruth Rendell crime novel.
Brian Goorjian versus Al Westover. Mark Worthington versus Chris Anstey. Sean Lampley's game three heroics. And who could forget Sydney's amazing comeback in game four that kept the series alive.
The Kings were on the brink of losing the series 3-1 when they trailed by 18 points late in the third term, but pint-sized point-guard Dontaye Draper - who was battling a hamstring ailment - and the underrated American Isiah Victor lifted their team over the line to force a deciding match.
That match was in Sydney and although it didn't have the excitement of Lampley's big three-pointer at the death or the suspense of the Kings' game four comeback, it still had plenty of ebbs and flows.
The Tigers led by just two points at three-quarter-time, but not even a packed Sydney Entertainment Centre crowd of 10,244 could get the Kings over the line.
Anstey was the difference between the two teams and he was duly awarded the MVP award for the season, narrowly in front of Brisbane Bullets guard Ebi Ere.
It was impossible to go past that epic grand final series for the basketball highlight of 2008, but running a close second was the Boston Celtics' triumph over the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA finals.
For the uninitiated, the Celtics and the Lakers have the biggest rivalry in basketball with Bill Russell and Bob Cousy for Boston and Elgin Baylor and Jerry West for Los Angeles starting that rivalry in the mid 1960's, before Larry Bird and Magic Johnson added their own mystique to the match-up in the 1980's.
But this time round, the Celtics had their big three of Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce against Lakers superstar - and possibly the greatest basketball player in the past 20 years - in Kobe Bryant.
Many experts expected the Lakers to land their first title since the halcyon days of Shaquille O'Neal, but the Celtics had other ideas.
Who could forget Pierce leaving the court in a wheelchair during game one, but returning just moments later to guide the Celtics to a 10-point victory in front of their parochial home fans.
Or in game two, when Bryant nearly singlehandedly brought the Lakers back from a hopeless position (they trailed by 24 points), before ultimately losing by six points.
But it was game four in Los Angeles where the Championship was decided.
The Celtics produced the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history (they erased a 20-point margin with a quarter and a half to play) to take a 3-1 series lead, which the Lakers had no answer for.
The Lakers-Celtics rivalry will go on for many centuries, but it will be hard to topple the excitement and intrigue that played out in the NBA Finals of 2008.