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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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. Read more…
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, Read more…
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, Read more…
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 Read more…
Today we got a heartbreaking, harrowing, and inspirational look at exactly happened to Aron Baynes — our beloved Bangers — at the Tokyo Olympics, with a slip and fall causing him to miss the rest of the tournament… and fear that he’d be paralysed. His subsequent rehab and recovery is Read more…
A chockers NBA day today with 10 games, a RAFT of James Harden news about how he’s apparently happy & committed to staying in Brooklyn, while Devin Booker and Ja Morant went absolutely HAM, cos they’re awesome… and the Hornets made some history & set a new franchise record! Also… Read more…