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I don’t mean to make this all about Kobe, but this Christmas Day theme has kind of become an NBAMate tradition (2007, 2008) so we might as well run with it. I missed the first quarter of this game because I was sleeping – seriously, do the NBA schedulers [...]

My phone rings. It’s Chucko. “You read the MX today?” The MX is a free Melbourne newspaper that you usually read on the train. It’s 6pm, I’m still at work, so no I haven’t read it. “See what they said about Donaghy?” I wasn’t aware but I felt a bitter rant coming from a Suns [...]