Please, please, please don’t be one of those silly people who thinks that Steven Adams has some kind of obligation to play for the Tall Blacks and that refusing to do so is some kind of national scandal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Golden State Warriors won another championship and all that. Good for them, hopefully it’s their last for ages. Which… might not be as implausible as it seemed watching the Dubs thump the Cleveland Cavaliers in four.
ESPN analyst Kevin Van Valkenburg recently decided to draw the ire of an entire nation with an inferiority complex by picking on our national treasure and the apparent pinnacle of masculinity… the All Blacks.
It’s always seemed a little off that Aotearoa hasn’t had more of a history with baseball. We’ve been outstanding at softball and cricket but baseball has never quite caught on, with only a handful of professional players in our history.
Oh do you want a LeBron James article? Maybe something that captures the incredible achievements that he’s made throughout this season and into the playoffs, somehow dragging what’s now regarded as one of his worst ever supporting casts into the NBA Finals.
Imagine being an NFL owner. All that money and all that success and you’re so terrified of your own players leaning on one knee rather than standing on two feet for a couple minutes every week that you come right out and ban the act altogether.
Corey Webster is back. It’s the biggest move the Breakers have made yet in this rather dramatic offseason, bringing back a bloke who has won three championships with the franchise, a player who was the MVP of the NZ NBL for the undefeated Wellington Saints in 2017.
There’s been a shadow hanging over this Cleveland Cavaliers season from the very start and that shadow takes the shape of LeBron James’ impending free agency… whatever shape that happens to be.
The Philadelphia 76ers are pretty good these days, if you didn’t hear. Aussie Ben Simmons is out there dishing the ball around and thumping massive dunks down while Cameroonian Joel Embiid can post up on anyone and his trash talk is already at an All Star level.
Plenty of stuff happened at the Oklahoma City Thunder this past season but you know Steven Adams is just gonna do his job no matter who his teammates are.
All season long the freshly united trio of Russell Westbrook, Paul George and Carmelo Anthony did just enough to keep the hype afloat. Then they got dumped out in the first round of the playoffs by the Utah Jazz in six games. What went wrong?
Whatever happens between now and next season, the Breakers are going to look extremely different. Since our last scribblings on the team there’s been one thing made very clear and that’s that Paul Henare’s focus on New Zealanders is over.
Seasons can come to an end in a variety of manners. Some whimper out slowly with a sad inevitability while others come to a crashing halt in an explosion of noise and flames. Almost all of them end in disappointment.
25 points down at home in the third quarter of a must-win game having just lost three in a row and most teams would already be booking their holidays. But somebody forgot to tell Russell Westbrook.
If you’re looking for endless Steven Adams offensive highlights then you might have come to the wrong series… but at least he’s still breaking up fights and getting smashed in the face without reacting.
When DeMarcus Cousins went down with a busted Achilles with just fifteen seconds left in a 115-113 win over the Houston Rockets in January, it could have been the beginning of the death march for the New Orleans Pelicans.
Jordan Mailata is a Sydney native of Samoan heritage who has never played a competitive down in American Football. Not your typical prospect, to be fair, but he’s got all the physical tools.
In game one the Thunder had the rebounding advantage by four, very decent against a big team like the Jazz who gave up the second fewest rebounds in the regular season. That led to a 19-10 lead in second chance points, a speciality of the Thunder’s
Okay do you want the good news first or the bad news? Let’s go good: The Breakers have unveiled their new head coach and it isn’t an overpaid and under-motivated American college coach with a shady personal history… it’s Kevin Braswell.
A week ago the Thunder were wondering if they’d even make the playoffs but they ended up snatching the fourth seed and home-court advantage against the Utah Jazz because… basketball.