Merry Christmas, season’s greetings, feliz navidad and all that. Time for some holiday NFL! First we’ve got a couple games on Xmas Eve followed by a bunch on Christmas Day itself and then a pair on Boxing Day to close out the week. She’s all go, amigo.
Grab a curry and enjoy some NBA hot takes about San Antonio Spurs, Donovan Mitchell and the two leading MVP candidates.
Featuring one of the most entertaining games of the season, highlighted by Steven Adams guarding up against larger than life Joel Embiid, aka The Process... and also a blowout win and a couple concussion related DNPs.
We know Sean Marks is a reppin' Aotearoa to the fullest with his GM skills, now he's on full Weka level.
At least if you do have to play in conditions reminiscent of those north of The Wall on Game of Thrones then you can do a lot worse than lean on LeSean McCoy.
After a brief lapse in Mexico City against the Brooklyn Nets, it was more of the same heroic Steven Adams from last week, scoring for fun and doing just enough to cover up the trash the Russ/PG/Melo trio served up.
Just like the Hydro Grand Hotel in Timaru, Los Angeles Clippers have to bust it down and gets to re-building.
Case Keenum, let me remind you, won two games in ten starts with the Texans (11 TD / 8 INT) and then won seven games in 14 starts with the Rams (13 TD / 12 INT). He’s now won eight from ten starts with the Vikings. Quite the reinvention, ain’t he?
Once again, just as this team seems to hit its new rock bottom they then whip out a fantastic win to shut everyone up, this time with a Steven Adams performance for the ages. A new career-best scoring mark, achieved with perfect efficiency. Dude didn’t even miss a shot.
The Breakers may have been underestimated at the start of the campaign and they may even have dropped a silly one to Cairns in their season opener but it takes a certain type of team to be able to rip off nine in a row after that.
You though the Giants couldn’t sink any lower? You thought that Ben McAdoo would be the obvious scapegoat for all this? You thought that legacies meant something in the NFL, that two Super Bowl rings earn you a little job security?
Last week the Thunder beat the Warriors, beat them right off the court... but since then it's been back to the same old problems with three straight defeats. Won't somebody think of the children!?
It’s been odd getting international basketball in the middle of the Breakers season. Odd but pretty exciting as the Tall Blacks finally get to play some meaningful games outside of major tournaments and double headers against Australia.
In which everything that's been wrong with OKC's season went wrong again in New Orleans before everything that's been right was oh-so-right again at home to the defending champs.
Thanksgiving is here and the NFL has one more reason to show how much they love America while players expose the hypocrisy of that idea and fans spend lots of money to give the league reason for its bland and ceremonial patriotism.
You could hear the snap from the other side of the TV screen on the other side of the world. Less than six minutes into the season, Gordon Hayward came down hard after trying to challenge for an alley-oop pass from Kyrie Irving.
How long does a bruised calf keep you out of NBA games for? Steven Adams is your test case there, but he bookended the week with typically strong games, leaving damaged bodies in his wake.
The last few Tuesday nighters have been tough to watch but this one looks like an exception. Quality TNF games on both ends? It’s gonna be a looong week.
By the time the clock ran out in Perth on Sunday night, the arguments were over. If you didn’t think the Breakers were the best in show before this weekend then doing the double on a home-away versus the Perth Wildcats had to have sealed the deal.
“I’m not going to lie. That was one of the most embarrassing pregame speeches I’ve ever seen. It wouldn’t have been as bad if his teammates got riled up, but the looks on their faces like, 'What just happened?'"