Ash is the newest writer to hit the pine for NBAMate. He is a shameless Golden State Warriors fan, and therefore an expert on failure, the draft and voodoo. But it’s his allegiance to the West Tigers that makes him unmistakeably Aussie.

The point guard lives.
Not that it ever really died.
However, for a [...]

ONE: As an Aussie NBA blog, you’d be forgiven lately for thinking Bogut is the only Australian playing in the league at the moment. And you wouldn’t be far from the truth. The three players who make up the remainder of the Aussie NBA Quartet have all gone through rough patches and struggled to get [...]

Occasionally we stumble upon a factoid that takes us entirely by surprise. A head-scratcher, in the Aussie parlance. Luckily, more often than not we can explain away these little factoids by using a bit of deductive reasoning, and our world view remains intact. I’ll hit you with an example I only recently discovered that I’m [...]

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 [...]