Sydney, NSW

Sydney thump Cairns to launch NBL title defence

The West Australian Steve Barrett

20 Sept 2026 19:30 AEST Summary

From the report

The Sydney Kings made a shaky start to their title defence before stamping their authority in style, as Kendric Davis starred in a comfortable win over Cairns.

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

Indicators

Niral Score 11.4 mundaneloaded

Highlighted in the text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

defence2title2

Sourcing 42 unattributednamed sources Mood 50 sorrowjoyful

6 read zero: sentiment, political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Sentiment 0 hostilefavourable Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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The West Australian Sydney thump Cairns to launch NBL title defence plain
Brisbane Times Sydney Kings thump Cairns to launch NBL title defence in style plain

How this outlet filed it, and how we rewrote it

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Also covered by Brisbane Times, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, WAtoday. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score
The West Australianas they published this story	11.4

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The same event elsewhere

4 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.

Brisbane Times Sydney Kings thump Cairns to launch NBL title defence in style Niral 4.1 political 0 The Age Sydney Kings thump Cairns to launch NBL title defence in style Niral 4.1 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney Kings thump Cairns to launch NBL title defence in style Niral 4.1 political 0 WAtoday Sydney Kings thump Cairns to launch NBL title defence in style Niral 4.1 political 0