ONE: It’s a shame that the first Sunday Six Pack of the year has to be written in such depressing circumstances. Our Aussie NBA hero has once again gone down with a serious injury, this time as fractured left ankle. “It’s like someone has a voodoo doll of me and is putting pins in it”, [...]

So it’s a little belated, but it’s only fair that our most recent inductee into the NBAMate Wall of Fame has a proper welcoming ceremony.
It was on May 25 2011 when I made the above Tweet, just after the Mavs had pulled off a 112-105 OT win against Oklahoma in the Western Conference Finals. Dirk [...]

I know, it’s a little early. But with most teams having played 8 or more games, it’s enough of a sample size to get a feel for who will be the true contenders this season, and which teams are just making up the numbers.
The Contenders
1. Miami Heat – They couldn’t [...]

Note: This post was written last night after the first days’ play.
Since the beginning of time, every season without fail, I’ve been posting up my “Things I Learnt from Day 1″ – a brief run down on the biggest stories and themes coming out of the season’s opening games. But this year, thanks to [...]

It’s been a funny offseason. A long offseason. The craziest offseason I can remember, which is saying something after Lebron’s free agent drama last year. But we can now put it all behind us and look forward to some kick-ass NBA basketball ahead, because I really do believe the 2011-12 season will be one to [...]

Penny Hardaway, Derek Harper, Reggie Miller and one of NBAMate’s own favorite son’s, Thunder Dan Majerle.  Mix it all together and what do you get? A three-point explosion of NBA nineties nostalgia and awesomeness, put together by NBAMate’s very own J.O.
Enjoy.

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This is such big news that I felt it was worthy of more than just a Tweet. It seems the NBA is looking to rebuild its partnership with the NBL, a partnership we haven’t see since the last time Leon Trimmingham threw down a reverse windmill against the Geelong Supercats.
Brooks Meek, the NBA vice-president of basketball [...]

I deliberately waited a couple of days to write this post, because I didn’t want to be guilty of the immediate overreaction that so much of the NBA media and its fans have been spewing forth. “Lebron has destroyed his legacy”… “Lebron is more Pippen than Jordan”… “Dirk is a top-20 player all time”… This [...]

So often a Game 5 is the defining game in the Finals, which contains the make-or-break moment where the game – and the entire series – could have gone either way. We may look back on this Game 5 in the exact same way. The Mavs were the better team all day, and enjoyed a [...]

“Resilient “is the best way I can sum up this performance by the Miami Heat. A tough win in a hostile environment after a heart-breaking loss. A game where the Heat only got 17 points from Lebron. A game where Dirk Nowitzki threatened to take over as he has done so many times this post-season. [...]