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With the Boomers finishing off their 2016 Rio Olympic Games campaign with heart-wrenching, infuriating fourth place, it’s time to look forward to the next Boomers squad for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Many of the key players who led Australia in capturing the country’s hearts in Brazil will be primed for another go around but it’s…
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The Australian National team will be playable in the upcoming NBA 2K17 and it’s certainly got aussie hoops fans excited, but this is not (officially) the first time the Australian Boomers have been featured in the 2K franchise. This is due to the mammoth job the team behind the NBL2kMOD project, the first digital…
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This week Ben Simmons wasbeing named to the All-NBA Summer League First Team (former NBL player Jordan McCrae and Australian Thon Maker also made the second team), signalling his step into NBA superstardom. Anyone who watched Simmons take on fellow members of his draft class it was easy to see Simmons has all the…
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The NBA has released its official 2016 NBA Draft Combine list today. One name who isn’t on the list of expected attendees is our own Ben Simmons. This shouldn’t however be too much of a surprise to those keeping track. The NBA Draft Combine is a multi-day showcase which occurs every May before the…
Read MoreBen Simmons has made it known that he will not be wearing green and gold in Rio this year. The conversation around whether Ben Simmons will be able to juggle both NBA commitments and the NBA draft process has been a hot topic. Today Ben Simmons decision made it clear to Basketball Australia. The report came from…
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The Cleveland Cavaliers started the season with a pretty crowded backcourt situation, with two point guards, two shooting guards, and one combo guard. The issue with these 5 players is that not only are they all rotation players, but they are also all arguably starters as well. 5 Starters for 2 Positions And when…
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Kobe Bryant is a legend, plain and simple. He is arguably the greatest player to ever wear a Lakers uniform, a scoring phenom, a future Hall of Famer, Olympic gold medalist, a five-time NBA champion, a global icon, MVP. But in his 20th NBA season, it’s time to head to the bench. It sounds ludicrous,…
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Free agent wing Joe Ingles has signed a 2-year, $4.5 million dollar deal with the Jazz, according to Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski. Ingles came out of nowhere relative obscurity to play 79 games for Utah in his rookie season. He had spent several years overseas in Europe and Israel before coming across to make…
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From the looks of it, the San Antonio Spurs are looking at everyone who may be traded just to land LaMarcus Aldridge. Numerous reports are circulating that the Spurs are hoping to land LaMarcus Aldridge by trading current power forward Tiago Splitter. This week two more names have been inserted into said trade, that being…
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It may not be the starting line-up the Utah Jazz envisioned in October, however as giving more minutes to Australian Boomers teammates Joe Ingles and Dante Exum has resulted in most Jazz wins this season since the Jazz begun suffering a number of player injuries (Alec Burks, Jeremy Evans and Rodney Hood are currently all…
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