Seasons can come to an end in a variety of manners. Some whimper out slowly with a sad inevitability while others come to a crashing halt in an explosion of noise and flames. Almost all of them end in disappointment.
25 points down at home in the third quarter of a must-win game having just lost three in a row and most teams would already be booking their holidays. But somebody forgot to tell Russell Westbrook.
If you’re looking for endless Steven Adams offensive highlights then you might have come to the wrong series… but at least he’s still breaking up fights and getting smashed in the face without reacting.
When DeMarcus Cousins went down with a busted Achilles with just fifteen seconds left in a 115-113 win over the Houston Rockets in January, it could have been the beginning of the death march for the New Orleans Pelicans.
Jordan Mailata is a Sydney native of Samoan heritage who has never played a competitive down in American Football. Not your typical prospect, to be fair, but he’s got all the physical tools.
In game one the Thunder had the rebounding advantage by four, very decent against a big team like the Jazz who gave up the second fewest rebounds in the regular season. That led to a 19-10 lead in second chance points, a speciality of the Thunder’s
Okay do you want the good news first or the bad news? Let’s go good: The Breakers have unveiled their new head coach and it isn’t an overpaid and under-motivated American college coach with a shady personal history… it’s Kevin Braswell.
A week ago the Thunder were wondering if they’d even make the playoffs but they ended up snatching the fourth seed and home-court advantage against the Utah Jazz because… basketball.
Russell Westbrook needed 16 rebounds in game 82 to average a triple-double for the season and he got 20. Shout out to his ego-less centre for making it happen and shout out to Westbrook for rewarding him with buckets.
“The long hair and the beard and all of that stuff didn’t show up until later, but the physicality and the bruiser was there since Day One. The look kind of grew with his play a little bit. Definitely looks the part now and plays the part.”
It’s been 12 years since the last and only time the Commonwealth Games featured basketball as a sport. Must be something about Australia because that was the Melbourne Games in 2006 with the hoops and the Tall Blacks won a silver medal.
Is anyone else feeling uncomfortable about the direction the Breakers are heading in? Because right now it feels like a lot of things are happening under the Breakers banner that have nothing to do with the community-minded, family-values club that we’re accustomed to.