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Music of the Traffic – Week 21

Published by Tom Hersz on March 16, 2014 | Leave a response

Thirteen rings. Six as Head Coach of the Jordan-era Bulls, five more with the Lakers and two as a player for the New York Knicks over fourty years ago; the last time the Knicks won a Championship. Now those very Knicks are bringing him back as President of Basketball Operations. I speak of course of the Zen Master – Phil… Read more →

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AJ Ogilvy Q&A

Published by Michael Collins on March 13, 2014

AJ Ogilvy is embarking on quite the basketball journey. At just 25-years-old, Ogilvy has applied his big-man trade at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee – home of Jack Daniels and a thousand hangovers – and has competed professionally for Besiktas Cola Turka (Turkey), Valencia (Spain) and Brose Baskets (Germany). He had a choice: earn big bucks sitting cold on the bench… Read more →

TBT: Bear Breaks Croatian Hearts

Published by Liam Santamaria on March 12, 2014 | Leave a response

For this week’s Throwback Thursday I’m taking you back to Friday August 2nd 1996. It was deep into the second week of the Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the Boomers and Croatia faced-off in a massive quarter-final matchup. That day delivered one of the biggest moments in Australian Basketball history and I can remember it as if it were yesterday…. Read more →

“This Ball is Racist”

Published by Liam Santamaria on March 12, 2014 | Leave a response

The Sydney Kings have experienced a fair amount of movement in terms of their import spots throughout the 2013/14 NBA season. At various times they have had three different combinations of Charles Carmouche, Jesse Sanders and Sam Young step out in the purple and gold together. And it seems, after a recent run of losses, they’re not done looking. Next… Read more →

Music of the Traffic – Week 20

Published by Tom Hersz on March 9, 2014 | Leave a response

The NBA MVP race is alive and kicking! If you think otherwise you need your head checked. After nearly every single analyst and reporter declared the race over following Kevin Durant’s stellar play in January and early February (not this guy), it seems there was one guy in particular who took offense to that …. LeBron James. It started right… Read more →

NKOTB: The 2014 NBA Draft Class (Part 2)

Published by Tom Hersz on March 8, 2014 | Leave a response

In the first instalment of New Kids on the Block we took a look at the top incoming freshmen as the 2013/14 NCAA season tipped off following an impressive showing in Chicago in November. Back then the expected top 3 NBA draft picks were clearly Andrew Wiggins, Julius Randle and Jabari Parker and likely in that order. Well a lot… Read more →

Time to Make the Leap

Published by Michael Collins on March 6, 2014 | Leave a response

At the start of every season, we make our predictions for the upcoming NBA year. The one-eyed-fan syndrome and general animosity for Derek Fisher mostly fuels my yearly expectations. When projecting a young team’s ceiling, we rely on the assumption that foundation players, like Kyrie Irving, will take the “leap” from promising flashy talent to proven commodities. It might seem… Read more →

Power Forward to Save the World

Published by Tommy Greer on March 4, 2014

In his 2009 ’Book of Basketball’ Bill Simmons posed the following question: If Earth had to play a game against basketball-playing Martians with the future of mankind on the line, and we could use a time machine to get any players we wanted from throughout history… what would be the best basketball team we could possibly assemble to save Earth… Read more →

Steve Nash: The Stretch Provision – The Finish Line Part 2

Published by Tommy Greer on March 2, 2014

Watching these mini documentaries on Grantland.com about Steve Nash’s fight for his career is quickly turning into one of the highlights of the 2013/14 NBA season for me. It’s not often you get a player still in the NBA opening up like this and exposing themselves warts and all to the public. Nash is truly one of the NBA’s All… Read more →

Music of the Traffic – Week 19

Published by Tom Hersz on March 2, 2014

I distinctly remember when I was living in New York, watching the Pacers @ Pistons game in November 2004 (now infamously known as the Malice at the Palace) live on TV and my emotions shifting quickly from pride as Ron Artest walked away from a potential fight with Ben Wallace (I’m a Pacers fan) to shock and disappointment as he… Read more →