Because Keely Froling will suit up for the Canberra Capitals against the Sydney Flames at the AIS Arena on Saturday.

Twenty-four hours later she will be sitting in the stands to watch her brother and NBA draft prospect Sam play for the Illawarra Hawks in an NBL clash with the Brisbane Bullets.

It will be one of those moments when the family's feat really sinks in. Because watching from afar will be their brother and Adelaide 36ers young gun Harry, and Froling's twin sister Alicia, whose WNBL campaign with the Bendigo Spirit ended before it began due to injury.

Wind back a bit. Sam will be there when Canberra begin on the road to redemption, right?

"He better," Capitals star Froling laughed.

"Otherwise he'll be getting a stern talking to, especially because I've made a few trips up there to see him play. If he's not, then he will be in some serious strife and he will be hearing from me."

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And if he doesn't turn up? Froling jokes Sam will be in the bad books with their father Shane.

"I was actually teasing [dad] because he managed to get down to the Wollongong game and we had played the day before, and he didn't even think about going to that," Froling said.

"I was like 'I can see who the favourites are'. The same thing happened in the finals, he was like 'I came down to your finals'.

"But it took three years for him to get here, and Sam had played three games and he has already watched his."

Of course she needn't worry - Sam will be there as Canberra look to bounce back from a frustrating weekend.

"Not since I was in Canberra last have I seen her play, which would have been over a year ago now, it'll be cool," Sam said.

"I was talking to someone about that the other day, I was wondering if any other family had had four siblings in the league at the same time.

"I don't know if it has been done, it's a pretty special thing."

For some it would seem the Froling kids had no choice but to lace up a pair of basketball shoes.

Their mother Jenny won four WNBL championships while father Shane spent almost 20 years in the NBL and represented Australia.

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The kids were never pushed into basketball - the twins didn't want a bar of it until they were nine years old.

From then on they spent hours playing basketball barefoot in the driveway of their family home where everything was a battle. Needless to say almost everything ended with a few scraped knees.

"Keely was probably the least aggressive out of all of us, but she still had her moments," Sam said.

"She was still feisty and she could definitely hold her own. We were all beating up on each other, there were fights and everything.

"Harry probably won the most games, but I don't like to tell him that, he talks enough smack anyway."

Just like he did when the two boys locked horns in an NBL game for the first time last month with Froling watching from the stands.

The 23-year-old admits she didn't really know what to do or who to cheer for - so she simply sat back and let the occasion sink in.

"It is pretty surreal. I didn't really think about it, we have always played basketball and played at a pretty high level, everyone has been here, there and everywhere playing around the world," Froling said.

"When I watched them play, it did open my eyes. I was like 'this is amazing'.

"To us, it's what we've done our whole lives. Dad and mum always played at high levels, so to us, it was like 'this is what we want to do and this is how we're going to do it'.

"You do have those moments when you sit back and think, this is pretty special."

NBL ROUND FIVE

Sunday: Illawarra Hawks v Brisbane Bullets at AIS Arena, 5pm. Tickets from Ticketek.

WNBL ROUND FOUR

Saturday: Canberra Capitals v Sydney Flames at AIS Arena, 5pm. Tickets from Ticketek.