We are very aware that there will be no NBL All Star game this year, so this list may end up being about as useful as that New Years resolution you have already forgotten about. Nonetheless we must carry on and why should we let that stop us having a little fun.. So here we go. As in the 2012… Read more →
“Every championship team needs a guy who is a little bit crazy” Reggie Miller during the Pacers demolition of the NY Knicks. Lance Stephenson is another product of Coney Island and Abraham Lincoln High School, the same school which Stephon Marbury attended. Stephenson was a killer as a junior winning back-to-back titles for his high school in… Read more →
Regarded by many of his peers as the greatest center of all time, Hakeem Olajuwon celebrated his 51st birthday just the other day (January 21). ‘The Dream’ had more moves in the post than John Travolta did on the dance floor and his graceful (yet dominant) game was a large reason why I started playing basketball in the first place…. Read more →
Jan Vesely’s attempt at the Free Throw line the other day had not only the commentators but the entire NBA community bewildered. It re-raised the “why can’t these extremely well paid NBA big men make a free throw when they have no one defending them” question. It got us at Downtown thinking about the worst ever attempts from the charity… Read more →
Good things come to those who wait… And work hard… And stay ready… And make the most of their opportunities. With season 2013/14 quickly becoming the year of the injury there has never been a better time to look at the players around The Association that have kept their eyes on the prize and stayed ready to make the most… Read more →
2013 was the year of many things… 1. A monkey in a winter coat roamed an Ikea alone. 2. The Hadouken meme from Japan. 3. Remember this most epic, terrible f**k up? 4. Oh and Miley Cyrus is still twerking.. Yep it was one hell of year! However, in the NBA, one fad seemed to take… Read more →
Nothing can send an NBA player into a stat-stuffing frenzy more than lining up against my T. Grizzle’s Grizzlies in a week of fantasy basketball. Over the past few days it has been Portland Trailblazers PG Damian Lillard’s turn to put the hurt on my squad. Much like his team from Rip City, Lillard is often discounted or dismissed as… Read more →
After watching this James Ennis throwdown, we here at Downtown couldn’t help but feel like we’d seen this kind of reaction before. It felt like the entire crowd stopped for a second and said ‘DAMN”! Perth Wildcats fans around Australia were wondering why they were suddenly so aroused and I am convinced that the referees called that timeout to… Read more →
The Inside word: Sunday’s game against the New Zealand Breakers could yet prove to be a season defining win for us Melbourne Tigers. The Breakers were breathing down our necks on the standings and have come into form over the past couple of weeks. It was the proverbial danger game as a loss would have seen us plummeting towards the… Read more →
The Indiana Pacers are going to win the Eastern Conference. There are so many factors pointing us all towards that belief, yet so many of us are still refusing to buy-in. Maybe it’s the LeBron factor. That’s a big one, for sure. As Rudy Tomjanovich taught us, ‘don’t ever underestimate the heart of a champion’. Maybe it’s also because they’re… Read more →