Tag: NBA
NBA Straya – Friday Mar 2 (Episode 69 – NICE)
NBA Straya!! SOUP’S UP! JR SMITH – wyd? Anyway! Today’s show is episode 69 — NICE — and covers Ben Simmons & the Sixers beating LeBron James and the Cavs DESPITE LeBron’s amazing behind-the-back nutmeg of his own teammate, along with plenty of JR Smith soup talk, Dame Lillard & the Blazers appreciation, Lonzo Ball… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget – Stretched-Out Delly David Andersen vs the Raptors, Mar 1 2010
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! Just imagine it: eight years ago TODAY, Jason Derulo’s ‘In My Head’ was spending its second week atop the #ARIA charts, and The Great Aussie Dane, David Andersen — aka Stretched-out Delly — had the SECOND HIGHEST SCORING GAME OF HIS ENTIRE #NBA CAREER! That’s right, despite looking like the bass… Read more
NBA Straya – Thursday Mar 1 (Episode 68)
NBA Straya!! CLEAN UP ISLE 4 – WE HAVE A WES JOHNSON MESS! Man… how fun is the NBA!? Today’s show talks about James Harden officially killing Wes Johnson and sending him into an early retirement with that ankle-breaking staredown 3 — a 20/10 in the disrespectiful NBA moment stakes — and also covers Dirk’s 31k point… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget – the first EVER Aussie NBA Triple Double: Kyrie Irving vs the Jazz, Feb 28, 2014
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! Tell ya what, it’s not often we get to celebrate a ‘Strayan first here… but four years ago, on this very date, Aussie Kyrie Irving recorded THE FIRST EVER NBA TRIPLE DOUBLE BY AN AUSSIE! That’s right: in 2014, leading his pre-LeBron homecoming Cleveland Cavaliers against the pre-Jingles Utah Jazz, Kyrie… Read more
NBA Straya – Wednesday Feb 28 (Episode 67)
NBA Straya!! ALL HAIL THE KING! Today’s show covers LeBron James’ remarkable 30k/8k/8k achievement, D-Wade’s incredible game-winning shot and 4th quarter, the fascinating Bucks-Wiz game, and what the ceiling is for the Rockets win streak: 20? 22? 27? WILL THEY EVER LOSE AGAIN!? Anyway, we also discuss NCAA corruption, the new-look Cavs, AND wrap… Read more
NBA Straya – Tuesday Feb 27 (Episode 66)
NBA Straya!! WHAT THE HELL ANTHONY DAVIS! Man! The Brow is going bananas huh? Today’s show talks all about Anthony Davis’ HISTORIC night — AGAIN!!!! — and his MVP case, the emergence of Devin Booker, how Lonzo Ball’s return is going, the Rockets win streak, and just how badly Jarrett Allen KILLED poor Lauri Markannen last night.… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget – Aron ‘Bangers’ Baynes vs Pistons vs Celtics! Feb 26, 2014 & 2017
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! In a weird twist of fate, both one AND four years ago on THIS VERY DATE, Aron ‘Bangers’ Baynes TWICE played against teams he’d eventually go on to play for! That’s right, in some sort of cosmic alignment that not even the good sorts at Parkes Observatory could’ve seen coming, four… Read more
NBA Straya – Monday Feb 26 (Episode 65)
NBA Straya!! WOW! What an NBA weekend! Today’s show covers ALL the best stuff from the NBA weekend, including Anthony Davis’ HISTORIC night, Jimmy Butler’s knee injury and what it means for the Wolves, the Warriors stomping the Thunder, the Cavs falling apart against the Spurs, and Donovan Mitchell being an absolute legend and hooking… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget – Patty Mills vs the Blazers, Feb 25 2015
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! Three years ago today, the Bala supreme Patty Mills — aka Patty Thrills, aka Patty Cakes, aka the Torres Strait Terror — was coming off leading Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs to their fifth NBA title… and on a typically cold, wet Oregon night at the Rose Garden, went… Read more
NBA Straya Never Forget – Andrew Gaze vs the Sonics, Feb 24 1999
#NBA #Straya Never Forget! 19 years ago today, Andrew ‘Gazey’ Gaze — aka the Aussie GOAT, aka Air Gaze, aka the Grey Mamba — strapped on his K-Mart signature edition Dunlop Gaze 1s for his sixth game for the San Antonio Spurs… and, after roughly 80,000 buckets in the NBL, finally scored his FIRST NBA… Read more