We’re three days into the season and that means every team has now played at least once. It also means it’s the last time you’ll see every Eastern Top 8 team with a record above .500. Quite a momentous day really.
The inspirational Vince Carter (aka “Captain Carter” which almost makes me vomit) lead his team [...]

I’m sure you all know about the off-season hostility between Shaq and Coach Popovich, after Shaq called him out for bringing the game into shame by resorting to the Hack-a-Shaq tactics. The obvious response there is “Hey Shaq learn to shoot free throws!”. But I think Coach Pop’s response today was even better.
You need to [...]

Day 1 of the season finally arrived and didn’t fail to deliver the drama. The Cavs were handed their asses and the Celtics were handed their rings in an extremely emotional ceremony, as their 17th Championship Banner was raised to the ceiling. I love Paul Pierce, more than most non-Boston fans. And I know [...]

Tizzle is back with his crystal ball and a look at this seasons Top Ten Most Likely Things to Happen. You heard it here first folks!
#1 – Camby was angry. Iverson was angry. Carmelo was angry. Every Denver fan was angry. Even yours truly was angry. But now, we are all living in disbelief. After [...]

Your 2009 NBA Champion is going to be one of these teams
Los Angeles Lakers
Shortly after the Gasol trade last season, me and one of my many Suns-supporting friends (who for unnamed reasons shall be known as the Cougar Hunter) were musing about the Lakers fortunes. “It’s so unfair”, was the overriding theme of that conversation, [...]

No pretenders here. No sir, these guys are playing into May… and that’s where they’re stopping

Cleveland Cavaliers
It amazes me how far this team has gone the last two post seasons. They were only a 45 win team last season (which means that would have missed the playoffs in the West), yet they almost handled the [...]

It’s late October so you know what that means. Every basketball website /blog /magazine /podcast on the planet feels the need to look at every team and try to predict what’s going to happen in 08-09. Here at NBAMate we thought we’d do things a little differently. Rather than look at each team and try [...]

The new site is here! What used to be the Kickz101 Podcast Blog is now NBAMate. It’s pretty simple. But for the more curios/dull minded folk this Q&A should answer everything you need to know about anything.
Q: What happened?
A: We decided we wanted a new site and a new name so we started up NBAMate. [...]

Luke Hodge is The Man. That’s all you need to know. Of all the things I learnt from last week’s AFL Grand Final, one fact has resonated throughout my brain every minute of every day for seven days straight – Luke Hodge is the fucken man.
Very rarely in AFL football can one player impose his [...]