Category: Blog Posts!
NBA Straya Never Forget – Andrew Gaze NBA Career High vs the Clippers, Mar 6, 1999
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! Hoist ‘em up! 20 years ago, ON THIS VERY DAY, Andrew ‘Gazey’ Gaze — aka the Aussie Larry Bird, aka The Grey Mamba — had the GAME OF HIS NBA LIFE. Brought in to get his San Antonio Spurs over the hump in a 29-point win over the L.A. Clippers, Grey… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget – Luke Schenscher NBA debut vs the Cavs, Mar 5 2006
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! Man. Can you believe that 12 years ago today Fanta Pants Shaq — Luke Schenscher — made his NBA debut!? That’s right, all the way back in 2006, Hope Forest’s favourite son played his FIRST EVER NBA game, manning the paint for 12 minutes against Big Zydrunas Ilgauskas and a young… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget – Dante Exum vs the Celtics, March 4 2017
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! With a rookie Donovan Mitchell currently tearing up the NBA, it’s easy to forget the Utah Jazz still have Kangaroo KObe — Dante Exum — on the sideline, just waiting to fulfil is destiny as one half of DMX, the NBA’s best bloody backcourt. And with news breaking that Exum is… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget – Thon ‘Thon Song’ Maker vs the Clippers, March 2 2017
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! A year ago today, Thon ‘Thon Song’ Maker — dead-set South Sudanese-Aussie ledge and ageless terror — was struggling through a rookie year with Milwaukee Bucks that had more up and downs than the Wild Mouse rollercoaster at Luna Park. And in a big Bucks win over Blake Griffin and the… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget – Cam ‘Air’ Bairstow vs Orlando, March 2 2016
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! It might seem like yesterday, but it’s now been two long years since Cam ‘Air’ Bairstow gracefully tied back the flowing flaxen locks that would’ve made him the best looking sheila in Adelaide, pulled on his No. 41 Chicago Bulls jersey, and played his BEST ever NBA game… which, in a… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget – Stretched-Out Delly David Andersen vs the Raptors, Mar 1 2010
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! Just imagine it: eight years ago TODAY, Jason Derulo’s ‘In My Head’ was spending its second week atop the #ARIA charts, and The Great Aussie Dane, David Andersen — aka Stretched-out Delly — had the SECOND HIGHEST SCORING GAME OF HIS ENTIRE #NBA CAREER! That’s right, despite looking like the bass… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget – the first EVER Aussie NBA Triple Double: Kyrie Irving vs the Jazz, Feb 28, 2014
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! Tell ya what, it’s not often we get to celebrate a ‘Strayan first here… but four years ago, on this very date, Aussie Kyrie Irving recorded THE FIRST EVER NBA TRIPLE DOUBLE BY AN AUSSIE! That’s right: in 2014, leading his pre-LeBron homecoming Cleveland Cavaliers against the pre-Jingles Utah Jazz, Kyrie… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget – Aron ‘Bangers’ Baynes vs Pistons vs Celtics! Feb 26, 2014 & 2017
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! In a weird twist of fate, both one AND four years ago on THIS VERY DATE, Aron ‘Bangers’ Baynes TWICE played against teams he’d eventually go on to play for! That’s right, in some sort of cosmic alignment that not even the good sorts at Parkes Observatory could’ve seen coming, four… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget – Patty Mills vs the Blazers, Feb 25 2015
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! Three years ago today, the Bala supreme Patty Mills — aka Patty Thrills, aka Patty Cakes, aka the Torres Strait Terror — was coming off leading Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs to their fifth NBA title… and on a typically cold, wet Oregon night at the Rose Garden, went… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget – Andrew Gaze vs the Sonics, Feb 24 1999
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! 19 years ago today, Andrew ‘Gazey’ Gaze — aka the Aussie GOAT, aka Air Gaze, aka the Grey Mamba — strapped on his K-Mart signature edition Dunlop Gaze 1s for his sixth game for the San Antonio Spurs… and, after roughly 80,000 buckets in the NBL, finally scored his FIRST NBA… Read more