The 2007 NBA Draft started predictably, and then went a little crazy. The two big guns, Oden and Durant went #1 and #2 as expected, but the rest didn’t exactly go according to plan. What happened to the big draft-day trades for KG and Amare? How did Yi Jianlian, the supposed under-done softy small-forward go [...]

While driving down the Princes Highway from Bulla to Geelong today I turned my radio dial to Gold 104.3 FM (for those non-Melbournians that is the station where you get your fix of 60s, 70s and 80s music) expecting to hear some old-school mellow tunes to soothe my soul. Instead I was shocked to hear Alanis Morissette [...]

The fact that it was a sweep doesn’t make it the worst Finals ever. The fact that it featured two teams with no flair and a “boring” style of play doesn’t make it the worst Finals ever. The fact that the TV ratings sucked doesn’t make it the worst Finals ever. And the fact that [...]

Painful. For Cavs fans and NBA fans alike, this series is becoming extremely painful. As I said in an email to my friend earlier today, this could become the worst NBA Finals series in history. I qualified that statement by saying that if we got at least one close game the series might be saved. [...]

Don’t let the final score fool you… as far as NBA Finals blowouts go this one is right up there, along with the Bulls demolition of the Jazz in game 3 of the 98 Finals. As coach Van Gundy said several times in the broadcast, it was a “clinic”. Parker was again brutally efficient on the [...]

Game 1 of the NBA Finals was a fizzer. It was a fizzer because the three things I desperately wanted to see didn’t happen:
1) Lebron James throwing down a ridiculous dunk to go down in NBA Finals history (in fact, how about just one dunk LJ? That’d be nice.)
2) Duncan utterly dominating the Cavs frontline [...]

Here’s my thought for the day: the San Antonio Spurs are about to face their weakest opponent of the playoffs… in the NBA Finals. Read that again. After going through Denver, Phoenix, and the mighty Utah Jazz the Spurs are about to face a more inferior team than ANY of them for the ultimate NBA [...]

It’s obviously big news by now – Kobe Bryant wants to be traded… or does he want to stay? Or does he just want Jerry West back in the Lakers organisation? At the moment the sentiment is that Kobe’s little outburst was just his emotions reaching boiling point, and who can really blame him [...]