Oh praise the spine-tingling tunes of our Lorde, it has finally happened! The Los Angeles Clippers have been broken, Lob City has crumbled to the ground. This truly is a marvellous day for the NBA.
It’s gotta be a special one the day you get drafted into the NBA, should a fellow be so lucky. But outside those lottery dudes and a few renowned sleepers, simply getting drafted doesn’t guarantee anything.
What a funny old day in the National Basketball Association that was. The NBA Draft is always full of mystery and intrigue but just as the All Star game was overshadowed by a blockbuster trade, the same went and happened with the draft.
The Los Angeles Lakers had Timofey Mozgov on this disgusting contract – 30 years old and one season into a four-year $64m contract averaging 7.4 points and 4.9 rebounds per game in 16-17 – and they needed to get the hell out of it.
Dunno if you saw the news but former Breakers and current Tall Blacks scoring extraordinaire Corey Webster might just have himself another shot at that NBA thing and he's not even the only one in his family who can say that either.
The year was 2015 and kiwi basketballer Corey Webster was trucking away with the New Orleans Pelicans in the NBA preseason, trying to earn himself a contract for the big time.