Tag: NBA
NBA Straya – Wed Aug 7: AUSSIE WORLD CUP SELECTION, BEN SIMMONS vs CROWN & SIXERS OFFSEASON w/ BEN MALLIS (Ep 320)
The Aussie World Cup team was announced this week with a few shock omissions, Crown refused Ben Simmons entry & kicked off a shit-storm of dumbassery, and the since we last spoke to him, most of the NBA has changed teams… so we’ve got pickandroll.com.au‘s BEN MALLIS on his week’s show to talk through it… Read more
NBA Straya – Wed July 31: TOP 25 PLAYERS IN THE NBA & CHRIS PAUL IS OVERRATED w/ LAKERS FAN TIM (Ep 319)
Who are the Top 25 players in the NBA? Where would you put Joel Embiid? Ben Simmons? LeBron? … And is Chris Paul overrated!? This week’s show welcomes back Lakers Fan Tim to break that all down & heaps more… We also chat about the state of Lakers Fan Tim’s LA Lakers, the Top 5… Read more
NBA Straya – Wed July 24: KANE PITMAN, AUSSIE MILWAUKEE BUCKS BEAT WRITER (Ep 318)
Aussie Milwaukee Bucks beat writer Kane Pitamn joins this week’s ‘Holiday Mode’ NBA Straya, talking all thing Bucks, what it’s like hanging around an NBA MVP in Giannis Antetonkoumpo, getting roasted by Pop, seeing Delly & Thon get traded, and his insane journey from Geelong to NBA beat writer… We also cover American beers, the… 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 – Fri July 12: MATTHEW DELLAVEDOVA + RUSSELL WESTBROOK TRADED TO HOUSTON (Episode 316)
MATTHEW DELLAVEDOVA JOINS THE SHOW!! That’s right – NBA Champion and dead-set Aussie legend Delly joins the show for a bit of YEAH-NAH… where we find out who’s better to play with – Giannis Antetokounmpo or LeBron James – how much he yelled at his telly while Cleveland were in the Finals… who he’d least… Read more
NBA Straya – Mon July 8: KAWHI & PAUL GEORGE ARE LA CLIPPERS & CHAOS REIGNS w/ PDX PETE (Episode 315)
*INSERT KAWHI LAUGH HERE* yep… Kawhi is a LA Clipper. SO IS PAUL GEROGE. And the NBA is now utter, utter madness. So… who better to bring on than our man in Amsterdam — er, Portland, Oregon — PDX Pete! We break down ALL the ramifications of LA’s ‘second’ team snagging their superstar wing duo…… Read more
NBA Straya – Fri July 5: FREE AGENCY THUMBS UP KNACKERS OR IN THE CLACKER TEAM TRACKER (Episode 314)
It’s the NBA Straya FREE AGENCY THUMBS UP KNACKERS OR THUMB IN THE CLACKER FREE AGENCY TEAM TRACKER! Yep… we’re grading EVERY NBA team’s performance so far after a week of free agency… find out who got hot, and who got, uh, not. (*coughKNICKScough*) We’ve also got a Kawhi-centric YEAH-NAH, an Unpopular Opinion of the… Read more
NBA Straya – Wed July 3: KAWHI, BEN SIMMONS & FREE AGENCY YEAH-NAHs w/ MATT O’GORMAN (BRITISH INDIA/HOOPS PODCAST) (Episode 313)
Free agency is still NUTS, and Kawhi is still the KING of it… so we’ve got British India drummer/Hoops Podcast host/NBA nut MATT O’GORMAN as a special guest on today’s show to cover off a BUNCH of free agency YEAH-NAHS! We cover Ben Simmons’ big extension, how good the Jazz, Celtics & Sixers will be… Read more
NBA Straya – Mon July 1: FREE AGENCY MADNESS – DURANT & KYRIE TO BROOKLYN, KNICKS SUCK + WINNERS& LOSERS (Episode 312)
A WILD first day of NBA free agency – Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving are off to the Brooklyn Nets, Jimmy Butler is joining the Heat, Kemba is shipping up to Boston, Al Horford joins Tobias Harris and Ben Simmons on the Sixers… the Knicks SUCK … and Kawhi is still nowhere to be seen!… Read more
NBA Straya – Fri June 28: MEGA FREE AGENCY PREVIEW w/ BEN MALLIS SIXERS BEAT WRITER (Episode 311)
NBA FREE AGENCY MADNESS! Today’s show welcomes on Sixers beat writer for pickandroll.com.au BEN MALLIS to talk free agency and how it’s already basically begun – the Lakers have carved out enough cap space for another marquee free agent, the Sixers are looking to outspend everyone on their own players… and the Boston Celtics now… Read more