Category: Blog Posts!
NBA STRAYA #NeverForget – 2015 NBA Finals #DELLY-VERSARY
*a New York deli, prior to Game 3 of the NBA Finals* ME: [scratching deli cat, carrying a million beers & a life-size cutout of King Delly] MANUEL: Ola Mr Jaymz! ME: S’garn on Manuel? MANUEL: Not as much you Mr Jaymz – why so many beers? Are you, as you say, ‘smashing cans’ tonight?… Read more
NBA Straya – Never Forget: Aron ‘Bangers’ Baynes Breaks an NBA Record & Sets A Career High – Mar 6, 2020
You little ripper! It’s the 2nd anniversary of a day that if those clowns in Canberra had their wits about them, would already be a Public Holiday. ‘Bangers Day’, we’d call it, where all of us could sit down as a nation, relax with 37 beers each, and regale future generations with the story of… Read more
NBA Straya – Never Forget: CAM ‘AIR’ BAIRSTOW’S ROOKIE HIGH, 2015!
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! CAM ‘AIR’ BAIRSTOW’S ROOKIE HIGH! It was the misty days of 7 years ago today that, during a game between his Chicago Bulls & the San Antonio Spurs — back when Tim Duncan still patrolled the paint with fundamental precision & Derrick Rose still patrolled the Chicago backcourt with a body… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget: HAMMER TIME – SHANE HEAL’S CAREER NIGHT vs THE SEATTLE SUPERSONICS, Nov 27, 1996
#NBA#Straya – Never Forget: This week, in 1996… HAMMER TIME!!!! Shane Heal’s career night vs the Seattle Supersonics That’s right: every year, allllll around this wide brown land we loving call ‘Straya’, we have a week there’s not a dry eye OR an unbent elbow as an entire proud nation celebrates & tips back a… Read more
NBA STRAYA’S NOT AT ALL CRAZY SEASON 2021–’22 PREDICTIONS — Pt. 2: THE AUSSIES
Part 2: AUSSIE DIVISION Pt 1 of the NBA Straya Season Preview came out Friday… read it here… now for the Aussies! NBA Straya’s ‘Stuff that we’re kinda-halfway-definitely-maybe certain of’ season predictions! Part 2: the Aussies! by Jaymz Clements — NBA Straya BEN SIMMONS WILL PLAY FOR THE SIXERS THIS SEASON… BUT THEY’LL BE BETTER WITHOUT HIM Look. The… Read more
NBA STRAYA’S NOT AT ALL CRAZY OR RUBBISH SEASON 2021–’22 PREDICTIONS
PART 1: NON-AUSSIE DIVISION by Jaymz Clements — NBA STRAYA Wait. The NBA season starts next week!? WHAT THE HELL MAN. Mate. Between the Finals and doing shoeys during the Olympics, I barely got a holiday… but as they say, no rest for the super-lazy. That’s not what they say? Look. Shut up. I’m… Read more
ROSE GOLD VIBES ONLY – THE BOOMERS DO THE DAMN THING! AUSTRALIA 107 – SLOVENIA 93
Australia 107
Slovenia 93 
(reposted from Facebook) They did it. They finally did it. 50 years and literally GENERATIONS of Australian men’s basketball led to this. A medal at a major tournament! Olympic Rose Gold! So… Alright. heartfelt post incoming. I think we sorta got there in the NBA Straya live stream during… Read moreNBA Straya NEVER FORGET: LUC LONGLEY BECOMES THE 1ST AUSSIE TO WIN AN NBA TITLE – 25TH ANNIVERSARY – June 16, 1996
ON THIS DAY… THAT’S RIGHT! 25 years ago TODAY, back in 1996… Big LUC ‘Lucien’ LONGLEY became the first Aussie to win an NBA TITLE! That’s right… it’s BREAKS MY FKN HEARTTTTTT cos they beat my beloved Seattle #SuperSonics in 6… but on June 16, the immortal 72-10 ’96 Bulls closed out Seattle by 12… WITH BIG… Read more
NBA Straya partners with DRAFT KINGS AUSTRALIA for an EXCLUSIVE COMP!!
Like it says on the ticket… your boy NBA Straya has teamed up with the legends at DRAFT KINGS AUSTRALIA to come up with an AWESOME and EXCLUSIVE Draft Kings Comp for Australia! Because… the playoffs are almost here and our boys from down under are battling for the top spot! Thanks to our friends… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget! Andrew Bogut – Australia Day vs Dallas, Jan 26, 2010
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! Andrew Bogut Straya DAY 2010 vs Dallas ELEVEN LONG YEARS AGO… in a true celebration of Aussie spirit on ‘Straya Day back in 2010, Andrew Bogut — aka the Croatian Wilt Chamberlain — had a skinful of Aussie pride. In between listening to the Hottest 100 to see if Birds of… Read more