Author: Jimmy
NBA Straya – Friday Feb 9 – TRADE DEADLINE SPECIAL (Episode 57)
NBA Straya!! TRADES TRADES TRADES! It’s the NBA Straya TRADE DEADLINE SPECIAL!! Today’s show wraps EVERY NBA trade from yesterday with our TRADE DEADLINE WINNERS & LOSERS! Including: the CAVS kicking most of their team to the curb (like a former MVP & a finals MVP!), the LAKERS clearing out room for a crack at… Read more
NBA ‘Straya – Never Forget! Patty Mills vs Charlotte, Feb 8 2014
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! Four years ago today, Australia’s bala supreme, Patty ‘Thrills’ Mills was in his third year with the San Antonio Spurs and well on his way to leading them to their fifth NBA title. But on a cold February night in North Carolina, Patty Cakes tugged on the ol’ black and silver… Read more
NBA Straya – Thursday Feb 8 (Episode 56)
NBA Straya!! TRADE DEADLINE MADNESS!! Today’s show covers off the Cavs-Lakers deal for Isaiah Thomas and everything else that’s going on trade-wise, as well as going NUTS over LeBron’s HUGE game-winner over the Wolves last night, Harden’s maazing performance in Miami, the Lou Williams deal for the Clippers and loads more! We also have… Read more
NBA ‘Straya – Never Forget! Dante Exum vs Sacramento, Feb 7 2015
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! A scant three years ago today, back when Australian basketball’s forgotten man Dante Exum — aka Kangaroo Kobe — played basketball instead of just Call of Duty, the Aussie point god was in his rookie year and tearing up the NBA, starting his 12th ever NBA game for his Utah Jazz!… Read more
NBA Straya – Wednesday Feb 7 (Episode 55)
NBA Straya!! NOOOO! NOT PORZINGIS! Dammit. Today’s show breaks down the Kristaps Porzingis injury for the New York Knicks, as well as what the hell is going on in Cleveland, taking the Raptors seriously, why the NBA Trade Deadline SUCKS this year, and — considering we went to see them play in Brooklyn last night — just… Read more
NBA ‘Straya – Never Forget! Aron ‘Bangers’ Baynes vs Philly, Feb 6 2017
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! One year ago today, Aron ‘Bangers’ Baynes — everyone’s favourite dump truck disguised as an NBA player — tied his hair up in a man bun tighter than Warwick Capper’s shorts and led his Detroit Pistons to a big win over the Philadelphia 76ers… and put up his THIRD best game… Read more
NBA Straya – Tuesday Feb 6 (Episode 54)
NBA Straya!! We got trades, trade requests and thrown chairs galore… And, unfortunately, a Delly injury. Dammit. In today’s episode we talk the Lakers ‘recalibrating’ their free agent desires to 2019, the Brooklyn-Milwaukee trade, Delly’s ankle injury, Dirk hitting 50k NBA minutes and loads more, including wrapping ALL the NBA games from last night. There… Read more
NBA ‘Straya – Never Forget! Cam ‘Air’ Bairstow vs Denver, Feb 5 2016
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! It might be hard to believe, but it was only two short years ago that Cam ‘Air’ Bairstow was tying back his flowing flaxen locks, shrugging on a No. 41 Chicago Bulls jersey with the lithe grace of a young David ‘The Admiral’ Robinson mixed with a cheetah, starting his THIRD-EVER… Read more
NBA Straya – Monday Feb 5 (Episode 53)
NBA Straya!! HUNGOVER POST-SUPER BOWL EDITION! Man… rough one, but still! Even with being dusty as hell after the Super Bowl, we’re here crushing loads of NBA guff, like should the Cavs fire Ty Lue, would DeAndre Jordan make Portland a contender, Al Horford’s immense buzzer-beater and HOW GOOD IS JOEL EMBIID RUNNING AMOK ON… Read more
NBA ‘Straya – Never Forget! Chris Anstey vs Boston, Feb 4 1998
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! 20 years ago today the first sighting of a real life unicorn was reported, as Chris Anstey — aka the Original Unicorn, aka the Melbourne Menace, aka Aussie Porzingis — went to work for the Dallas Mavericks in a loss to the Boston Celtics… and had the BEST game of his… Read more