It had to happen. Dwight Howard has been suspended for Game 6 for that ever-so-slight elbow glance in Game 5. If you haven’t seen it, here tis:
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As Charles Barkley said about one hundred times in the TNT brodcast, that pretty much equates to throwing [...]

One of the links you would have seen sitting in ‘Our Aussie Mates’ section for the past few months is JR On Fire, an Aussie basketball blog by NBL Townsville Crocodiles Captain John Rillie. For those that don’t know John, he’s the dude that hit a crazy 10 threes in the 2009 NBL quarter finals [...]

It finally happened. After following the bizarre Twitter craze that has engulfed the NBA and its blogs the past few months from a safe distance, I’ve finally jumped on board. If you haven’t heard about this fad or experienced it first hand, you really have some catching up to do: there was the classic story [...]

I’m very excited to announce that NBAMate is running a competition to give away a Derrick Rose Rookie of the Year t-shirt, as well as a Dwight Howard Defensive Player of the year t-shirt. These shirts are both valued at $20 (I know, we have a big budget here!) and commemorate the awards won by [...]

3 votes – The entire Denver Nuggets team. Such a lop-sided contest like this defies conventional anaylsis. The idea that a team can lose in the playoffs by 58 points is completely foreign to me. So I will let Denver coach George Karl explain it: “Every coach talks about playing a playoff game, every possession [...]

3 votes – Lebron James. I would love to have given these votes to someone else, especially in light of how pathetic Detroit have been, but how can you ignore 36-14-8 and another perfect performance from The King? If you want to draw analogies to the 1991 Bulls v Pistons playoff series, go ahead. A [...]

Kobe really looked locked-in before tonight’s game
I didn’t think it would ever be possible, but today, I watched four live NBA games in a row. For an Aussie who is regularly starved of NBA on TV, I was in heaven.
Before I get onto the votes there is one thing I want to say that’s been [...]

3 votes – Lebron James. From very early on in this game it was clear Lebron wasn’t going to get the calls he got back in Cleveland. And that’s when Mike Brown started getting hot flushes: “Once he decided to say, `Hey, I’m not getting calls. I’m going to will this team to a win,’ [...]

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3 votes – Carlos Boozer. What a turnaround for this half-man half-jungle animal. Grabbed more rebounds than he did in games 1 and 2 combined, broke the Jazz playoff record for rebounds in the first quarter (11) and a game (22), and more importantly, continually bulled the Lakers frontline from start to [...]

3 votes – Chauncey Billups. For reasons I will elaborate further below, but for now just know that Chauncey had never before hit back-to-back thirty point games in his playoff career – and that is a long and distinguished playoff career. So now I want you to answer me this question. How far do you [...]