Tag: Australian NBA podcast
Fri Feb 11: TRADE DEADLINE CHAOS – BEN SIMMONS OFF TO BROOKLYN, James Harden Is A Sixer & EVERY Deal Covered + KD & LeBron Picked Their All-Star Squads! (Ep 756)
ABSOLUTE TRADE DEADLINE CHAOS on today’s NBA Straya! Ben Simmons is off to Brooklyn, along with Seth Curry & Andre Drummond in exchange for James Harden who gets his with to become a Sixer, as well as Paul Millsap. AND ZINGER IS OFF TO WASHINGTON!? So… we sift through ALL the trade deadline detritus and… Read more
Thurs Feb 10: JOE INGLES TRADED – Jingles Is Off To Portland + Harden-4-Simmons Might Be On & Lakers At Panic Stations (Ep 755)
Absolute scenes today in NBA Straya world, as our spirit animal., Jinglin’ Joe Ingles was traded by the Utah Jazz to Portland for Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Elijah Mitchell & a 2nd round pick. OUR SWEET JINGLES!!! (still… got a feeling he’ll land back there after the season). ALSO: the Harden-4-Simmons deal is VERY much maybe back… Read more
Wed Feb 9: MASSIVE TRADES – CJ McCollum to NOLA, Kings get Sabonis – FOR HALIBURTON!? KANGZ! WYD!? + Patty Mills 3pt Comp Invite & Giddey Up for Skills Challenge at All Star! (Ep 754)
Trade CHAOS today as a couple of massive trees went down, first with CJ McCollum & Larry Nance jr landing in NOLA, then the shock of the KANGZ sending Tyrese Haliburton to Indy for the Souvlaki King Domantas Sabonis!? KINGS!? WYD!? HE’S THE GOOD ONE! ALSO: the NBA announced its Top 15 Coaches EVER, and… Read more
Tues Feb 8: All-Star Replacements + Trade SZN on Ben Simmons, CJ McCollum, Westbrook + FOUR Dumb Chaos Trades I Wanna See (Ep 753)
Weird and Wild NBA day today, with trade chatter heating up, but it’s all simmer, no boiling… so we take a look at the latest trade SZN chatter around CJ McCollum, Rusty Westbrook, Julius Randle, Ben Simmons & more… PLUS! Four dumb chaos trades I wanna see, AND the NBA announced their All-Star injury Replacements… Read more
Mon Feb 7: TRADE SZN! Grading Clippers-Blazers & Pacers-Cavs Trades, Is Harden For Simmons REALLY On? + Weekend Winners & Losers (Ep 752)
HUGE NBA weekend with a couple of pretty big trades, with the Clippers going EFF IT and nabbing Norm Powell & Robert Covington from the salary-dumping, super-tanking Blazers, and then the Cavs scoring my sweet baby Caris LeVert from the Pacers in what feels like a PERFECT fit. ALSO… It came out that the Nets… Read more
Fri Feb 4: All-Star Reserves Announced – Who Got Snubbed? + Kobe MVP Trophy Unveiled & Ben Simmons Had a Sook At Shaq In His DMs!?!? (Ep 751)
Busy NBA Friday with the 2022 NBA All Star reserves announced, with familiar names everywhere in Luka, Harden, a couple of Suns, a couple of Jazzers & more being added to the mix… but WHO WAS SNUBBED! SNUBS! SNUBS EVERYWHERE!!!! Also, there was the unveiling of the Kobe Bryant All-Star MVP trophy, which looks wildly… Read more
Thurs Feb 3: Upset Thursday + Josh Giddey Is A Passing Savant & More Yelling About Ben Simmons (Ep 750)
A wild Thursday with upsets everywhere across the NBA… felt like every half decent team out there was trying their hardest to suck. Weird. BUT it also meant we got the latest example of Josh Giddey – aka the Moptop Mamba – being a passing savant! So that was good. AND today’s got a little… Read more
Wed Feb 2: Ben Simmons Is Trippin’ + Gary Trent Jr Is On One + Dunk Comp & Rising Stars Squads Announced (Ep 749)
A super fun NBA day, with the entrants for the 2022 All Star Dunk comp announced AND the Rising Stars squads released, which includes a COUPLE of Aussies! Josh Giddey AND Dyson Daniels! (I reckon Jock Landale was stiff to miss out… classic Anti-Strayan Bias). Also… what the hell, Spurs, the Nets are a mess…… Read more
Tues Feb 1: Joe Ingles ACL Tear Confirmed – What Could Be Next For Jingles + JA vs MAXEY Was SICK, Steph Goes Off For 40 & Latest NBA Trade Chatter (Ep 748)
News broke today confirming that Joe Ingles has torn his left ACL, meaning he’s out for the rest of this season… and also has folks trying to figure out what could be next for Jingles? Staying in the NBA? Coming home for the NBL? So NBA Straya talks that out, PLUS the OT battle between… Read more
Mon Jan 31: Joe Ingles Goes Down w/ Devastating Knee Injury & Everything Now Sucks (Ep 747)
Joe Ingles represents something intrinsic about basketball and Australia… his smart-arse persona, his work ethic & dedication, his rise from the NBL to the NBA, and today he went down with a knee injury that looked very serious. Which is devastating for him, us, the Jazz and anyone who loves basketball. So. Hopefully it’s not… Read more