Author: Dan Boyce
He may never wear the Boomers green and gold but Kyrie Irving says Australia played a huge big part in his on court success. “I’m proud to say that I’m an Australian American,” he says. “And it’s truly an honour and a blessing to represent such a prestigious continent. Now into his second NBA season,…
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More than 280 of Australia’s best junior basketballers descended upon Brisbane for the last weekend of July to participate in the 2013 National Under 18 Australian Junior Championships which tipped off at NAB Stadium in Auchenflower. The competition featured 28 teams, 26 boys and girls teams from Australia and two from New Zealand who battled…
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Australian Boomers team mates Nathan Jawai and Joe Ingles have helped Barcelona Regal take one step closer in the quest to win the teams third Euroleague championship. Barcelona Regal defeated Panathinaikos Athens 64-53 on Thursday at Palau Blaugrana to win their best-of-five playoffs series 3-2 and advance to next month’s Final Four in London. Barcelona had…
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Darcy Malone and Nicholas Duncan, two members of the Silver Medal winning 2012 Australian Junior Men’s team have both signed letters of intent this week to play with Division I basketball programs at Louisiana State (LSU) and Boise State University respectively. Canberra’s Darcy Malone measures in at 213cm and currently for the Canberra Gunners. He made…
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“I just never really got along with him. I would love to have a conversation with him now and say what we’re you thinking at that time because I was really keyed in, I was really bought in to playing for the Kings but he was too young of a coach at the time” – Acie Earl talks about…
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This week Matthew Dellavedova scored 21 points to become Saint Mary’s all-time leading scorer as the Gaels closed out a tight fought game against Santa Clara 80-67. Dellavedova shot 7-for-16 from the field to reach 1,892 points, eclipsing the previous record of 1,874 set by fellow Australian Daniel Kickert as the Gaels’ bagged their fifth straight…
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The St Mary’s Gaels have grown into one of the most powerful mid-major programs in college basketball thanks to their Australian pipeline of basketball players which has included Adam Capron, Daniel Kickert, Patty Mills and Matthew Dellavedova but before any Aussie had stepped into the gym in Moraga, California the University of New Mexico had…
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Hey Aussie NBA Fans, Although we’ve been doing this privately for the past few years this will be the second online Aussie Hoopla NBA Bracket competiton. Click here to see last years results where Kristopher Pendlebury scored 38 out of a possible 63 correct points and took out the title in closely fought competition which…
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In November 2009 Saint Mary’s Men’s basketball team had recently been defeated by San Diego State in the schools most successful NIT tournament performance to date. St Mary’s had finished with 28-7 record (10-4 in their conference) and after a tumultuous season which included Patty Mills missing 9 games with a broken wrist (St Mary’s…
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Patty Mills hadn’t played over 10 minutes in a game since January 16th but when he got the opportunity to step up in the absence of San Antonio’s injured star guard Tony Parker against the Phoenix Suns this week, he didn’t disappoint. Patty Mills and Kawhi Leonard led the Spurs 16 points apiece as the…
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