‘Winners & Losers’ is back to help you catch up on who killed it this past week, and who came off second best. WINNERS Jerome Randle This week Adelaide rebounded from a pair of losses with a pair of wins, prevailing in both games of the league’s only back-to-back for the season. There was plenty for 36ers fans to… Read more →
With just 48 hours off between rounds one and two, there was barely time to draw breath before the action resumed. ‘Winners & Losers’ is back to help you catch up on who killed it this past week, and who came off second best. WINNERS Illawarra Hawks Illawarra started their season by going 0-2 in round one, before turning… Read more →
The revamped NBL just kicked off with a five day opening round, an absolute basketball binge for the hungry hoops masses. If you’re at work today with a basketball hangover, we understand. With everything coming thick and fast for almost a week straight, and just two days before the action resumes, ‘Winners & Losers’ is here to break down who… Read more →
The 2015/16 NBL season projects to be one of the most tightly contested in league history. So much talent squeezed into eight teams, almost all of which possess genuine championship credentials. To conclude our build-up to opening night, here are Downtown’s #HardBall predictions. TOP 4 (in no particular order) LIAM SANTAMARIA: Melbourne, Cairns, Illawarra, Perth TOMMY GREER: Melbourne, Perth,… Read more →
Nothing brings out the fun side of the NBA – possibly the quirkiest sporting league in existence – quite like media day. We’ve rifled through the clichés and stock standard responses to bring you the good stuff. We’ll get to all things strange and amusing shortly, but first let’s take a look at some of the major storylines to come… Read more →
Remember ‘A Tribe Called Bench’? They were the lineup of Clippers reserves that started pressing their footprint onto games and their faces onto t-shirts. Last season that tribe had members by the name of Austin Rivers, Hedo Turkoglu and Glen Davis – all with PERs in the neighbourhood of 10.5 – and the Clips were about as deep as your childhood paddling… Read more →
People often tell recently signed 36ers import Kenyon McNeail that Adelaide is a small town. Having grown up in Conway, Arkansas, attended college in Ruston, Louisiana, and spent last year playing in Oliveira de Azeméis – a Portuguese town of 20,000 people – he begs to differ. “I’m from a really small town, and to me this a big city,”… Read more →
Basketball five nights a week. An injection of local and overseas talent. A new Executive Director with deep pockets and big ideas. There are plenty of reasons for NBL fans to work themselves into a collective lather this season, and Downtown’s here to kick start that process by taking a look the top ten must-watch games of the 2015/16 season…. Read more →
