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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →