The NBA Op-Shop: Free Agency Edition
The NBA leftovers, the wee gems you find tucked away in a $2 bin down the back of some dodgy suburban Salvation Army.
The NBA leftovers, the wee gems you find tucked away in a $2 bin down the back of some dodgy suburban Salvation Army.
Remember the Los Angeles Lakers? You probably do, it’s rather hard to forget about them these days. For a team that hasn’t made the playoffs since the 2012-13 season they sure do make a lot of noise.
Of course, Marksy being Marksy, he still managed to make a few moves both in terms of taking on chunky salary and picking up draftees. And it all began with a call from the Charlotte Hornets…
Heaps of great talent there and something to fit every need. But the story of the draft was the Dallas Mavericks trading up with the Atlanta Hawks to get their mitts on Luka Doncic.
Following on from the Corey Webster deal a few weeks back – Corey who is dropping 40+ in China these days – Kevin Braswell’s team has added their first two imports. Armani Moore is the first and Patrick Richard the second.
Please, please, please don’t be one of those silly people who thinks that Steven Adams has some kind of obligation to play for the Tall Blacks and that refusing to do so is some kind of national scandal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Golden State Warriors won another championship and all that. Good for them, hopefully it’s their last for ages. Which… might not be as implausible as it seemed watching the Dubs thump the Cleveland Cavaliers in four.
ESPN analyst Kevin Van Valkenburg recently decided to draw the ire of an entire nation with an inferiority complex by picking on our national treasure and the apparent pinnacle of masculinity… the All Blacks.
It’s always seemed a little off that Aotearoa hasn’t had more of a history with baseball. We’ve been outstanding at softball and cricket but baseball has never quite caught on, with only a handful of professional players in our history.