Tag: basketball
NBA Straya NEVER FORGET – Finals Edition! Luc Longley & the ’96 Bulls vs the Sonics, June 12, 1996
#NBA #Straya – NEVER FORGET – NBA Finals Edition!!! How’s this? Can you believe it’s 23 years TO THE BLOODY DAY, that our old mate Luc ‘Lucien’ Longley — aka Outback Billy Russell — was out there crushing it alongside the
MJ and Scottie Pippen on the ’96 Chicago Bulls … while going up… Read moreNBA Straya – NEVER FORGET: Luc Longley’s 1st 1997 Playoff game – Bulls Vs Washington, April 25 1997
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! 1997. We had Drazic & Anita, Silverchair’s nose-ring period and seminal Aussie tome ‘The Castle’ (officially recognized by the Guinness World Records as the World’s Funniest Movie)…. and, on the other side of the Pacific, a giant Sandgroper by the name of Lucien ‘Big Luc’ Longley was launching skyhooks more deadly than… Read more
NBA Straya – Thurs Dec 6: PAUL GEORGE GAME-WINNER, ROWDY BROEKHOFF’s CAREER NIGHT, LEBRON SMASHES THE SPURS & KD IS WHINGING AGAIN (Episode 198)
Massive NBA day today – we had 10 games including Paul George FINALLY hitting a buzzer-beating game-winner, a showdown of two of the best in the East with the Raptors hosting the Sixers, as well as a rollicking Spurs-Lakers game that saw LeBron go nuts! So we’ll wrap all that, as well as The Coward… Read more
NBA Straya – Wed Dec 5: LUKA DONCIC DAGGERS, A MARKELLE FULTZ DIAGNOSIS & JOAKIM NOAH FINDS A HOME! (Episode 197)
How fun is the NBA tho? Today’s show covers Luka Doncic putting a dagger through the heart of the Blazers, Markelle Fultz’s shoulder stuff has an official diagnosis, and someone has signed Joakim Noah! We also wrap all five NBA games today, figure out if the Spurs are done, if LeBron is doing too much…… Read more
NBA Straya – Tues Dec 4: BULLS FIRE FRED ‘SPUD’ HOIBERG, THE WARRIORS MYSTERY AFFLICTION REVEALED & SCARY TERRY IS BEING SUED! (Episode 196)
Super massive NBA today – the Bulls fired coach Fred Hoiberg, we found out what the Warriors were dealign with behind the scenes last season AND Boston Celtics guard Terry Rozier is being sued!?!? PLUS we had an AWESOME slate of close games, including a TOP OF THE TABLE< Best of the West vs the… Read more
NBA Straya – Mon Dec 3: GIANNIS GETS TY LUE’d, STEPH RUINED THE WARRIORS & WEEKEND WRAP!(Episode 195)
Ay! We had a MASSIVE weekend of NBA basketball, so we’re here with WEEKEND WINNERS & WEEKEND LOSERS! Also it was a huge weekend for Bogdanovics, and a not-so great one for Pat Beverley or the Golden State Warriors. We wrap all the action from a wild weekend… PLUS all the usual dumb stuff! YEAH/NAH … Read more
NBA Straya – Fri Nov 30: WAS RAPS-WARRIORS A FINALS PREVIEW, DURANT DROPS 51, DWIGHT’S BUTT SURGERY & WEEKEND PREVIEW! (Episode 194)
So… was that Raptors-Warriors game an NBA Finals preview? Mate… cos I hope it was. That was fun as hell AND THE WARRIORS DIDN”T HAVE TWO OF THEIR BEST PLAYERS!?! ? Anyway… today’s show breaks down all the games today, from The Coward Kevin Durant’s 51 to the Clippers and Lakers both getting important, close-fought… Read more
NBA Straya – Thurs Nov 29: DAME LILLARD GOES NOVA, KYLE KORVER TRADE & KAWHI HAS A NEW SHOE DEAL (Episode 193)
HUGE day of NBA action – we had a TRADE! Kyle Korver heads back to Utah, while Alec Burks and two 2nd rounders go to Cleveland… … wait. DID CLEVELAND WIN A TRADE!?!?! #BELIEVELAND!!! Also, Dame Lillard went NOVA against the Magic, Khris Middleton hit a game winner and the world’s LEAST INTERESTING SHOE BRAND… Read more
NBA Straya – Wed Nov 28: LAKERS POOP THE BED IN DENVER & RAPTORS KEEP ROLLING (Episode 192)
Did the Lakers get hiiiiiiiiigh in Denver before playing the Nuggets? I mean… what else would explain THAT performance? Today’s show goes into the Lakers embarrassing loss in Denver, the Hawks dealing the Heat ANOTHER home loss, and just how Canada’s finest – the Toronto Raptors – keep on rolling. Also: figuring out who would… Read more
NBA Straya – Tues Nov 27: JAMES HARDEN DROPS 54 – IN A LOSS – & THE COWARD KEVIN DURANT BURIES THE MAGIC… (Episode 191)
YEAH! NBA Straya is fully sick today… in the ‘I’m really quite ill’ way too, not the ‘how sick is NBA Straya tho!!’… so today’s show comes to you from a sickbed. Like, for real. Anyway! Short ep today, talking James Harden dropping 54 and still losing to Washington… the Coward Kevin Durant nutting up… Read more