Tag: luc longley
Wed Oct 19: NBA Season Tip-Off & Final Pre-season Awards & Predictions! (Ep 849)
WE’RE HERE! The longest offseason in literally years is over and we’re rolling into the season like Jimmy being rolled into the surf after Chrissy lunch. SO! Today’s show rips off all the bandaids and predicts the MVP, Rookie, Coach, Most Improved, Defensive Player and 6th man of the Year and also tells you who… Read more
Wed Aug 11: OFFSEASON WINNERS & LOSERS + BOOMERS TOKYO GRADES! (Ep 670)
It’s been a WILD NBA offseason — just think: the Finals end, we go STRAIGHT to the NBA draft, then STRAIGHT to Free Agency… with the Olympics going on… it’s been an absolutely NUTS — so as Free Agency wraps up, today’s show covers just about EVERYTHING, with a MEGA OFFSEASON WINNERS & LOSERS! We’re… Read more
NBA 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 – Never Forget: LUC LONGLEY’S 1991 NBA DEBUT!
29 LONG years ago, big Lucien ‘Luc’ Longley — aka Lucky Luc, aka Cool Hands Luc, aka the Thunder from Down Under, aka Aussie Bill Russell — ripped off his XXXL snap pants & stomped onto the hardwood for the VERY FIRST TIME and made his NBA debut for the Minnesota #Timberwolves … … in… Read more
The Long Dance – #NBA #Straya Never Forget: Luc Longley vs the Pacers, Game 7 ECF, 1998
can’t wait for tonight… so… #NBA#STRAYA Never Forget! ***SPOILER ALERT FOR THE LAST DANCE***… but… THE LONG DANCE… on this day, 22 years ago, big Lucien Longley — aka Lucky Luc, aka Cool Hands Luc, aka the Thunder from Down Under, aka Aussie Bill Russell — tugged on his Big’N’Tall #13 Chicago jersey, and carried America’s answer… Read more
NBA Straya – Wed Apr 8: D-MAC – DARRYL McDONALD – & TOP 5 YOUTUBE PLAYER HIGHLIGHT REELS & NBA STRAYA TIME MACHINE (Ep 432)
The legendary D-MAC aka Mr Excitement aka NBL-all timer Darryl McDonald joins the show this week! Yep… even though the Rona might’ve shut everything down, we’ve still got you covered… also talking Top 5 Player Highlight Reels… AND we jump back in the NB A Straya Time Machine to 1994! Awesome scenes… D-MAC Jons us… Read more
NBA Straya – Wed Apr 1: ALL-TIME AUSSIE NBA PLAYERS DRAFT + BEN SIMMONS TOP 5 GAMES & NBA STRAYA TIME MACHINE w/ KICKSTARTER GUEST CARSON MADDOCKS (Ep 431)
Gazey or Hammer? Simmo or Patty? Bogie or Bangers? IT’S THE ALL-TIME AUSSIE NBA PLAYERS DRAFT! This week we welcome on Kickstarter guest host Carson ‘Maddogs’ Maddocks on to Nba Straya… and draft our ALL-TIME Aussie NBA teams! Rad fun. Also… we have Ben Simmons’ top 5 games EVER and we jump in the Nba… Read more
NBA Straya – Wed July 17: MATT LOGUE, AUTHOR OF ‘HOOP DREAMS DOWN UNDER’ (Ep 317)
The Daily Telegraph’s basketball writer Matt Logue joins NBA Straya to chat his new book HOOP DREAMS DOWN UNDER! We chat his thoughts on the growth of Australian basketball, what he learned from chatting to Australian basketball luminaries like the Grey Mamba Andrew Gaze, Lauren Jackson, Shane Heal, Liz Cambage, Andrew Bogut, Ben Simmons &… Read more
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 more
NBA 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