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Today we conclude The Roar’s list of the Top 50 AFL players – here they are, the top 10. 10. Josh Kelly GWS Giants…
There’s very little that’s organic about this Clippers team, and the magic suffers for it. This is a fantasy squad. Just three of the…
Sometimes the new-look Rockets look like they've started a revolution, other times they just look like the ninth-best team in the NBA. Houston gave…
It was hard to make sense of the way that Kobe Bryant moved. It was effortless but calculated, liquid and purposeful. He flowed more…
In a change of events so predictable it barely registered as a change of events, the Utah Jazz have found their way. Utah's "are…
No player makes basketball look more like an individual sport than Kyrie Irving, and perhaps no player makes the sport look more mesmerising. Therein…
The Oklahoma City Thunder are an oddity - a team that expected to contend last year and rebuild this year, but both times ended…
At their worst, the Jazz look small, slow and unathletic – at their best, we haven't seen them yet. The Jazz are still only…
For long stretches you don't feel Ben Simmons' presence on the court, until suddenly you feel it as much as any other athlete in…
Celtic bodies whir around on defence, arms make angles disappear, and everyone is where they're supposed to be. Kyrie Irving is gone, but energy…
Marcus Morris is probably the best player on the New York Knicks right now, and when you start to realise that and really properly…
When Russell Westbrook has the ball everything is out of control and dangerous, always a split second from insanity. When James Harden has it…
First there's the right-handed laser to the open man in the corner for three, then there's the caressed, lofted fly ball to the roll…
The ball is bounced to start the second half of the preliminary final and the Tigers trail 50-29. Rhys Stanley and Ivan Soldo leap…
For three-quarters of the preliminary final, Collingwood played unfathomably poorly, and the resounding thought was: do they know they're playing in the game to…
It ended, finally, with Nic Naitanui awkwardly spiralling a punt into the centre square and the waiting arms of an opponent. It was fitting…
As the clock in an odd, arrhythmic, finals-like final between Collingwood and Geelong dripped away, Patrick Dangerfield threatened to make things suddenly epic. Until…
It became clear a few minutes into their Queen’s Birthday clash against Collingwood that the Demons had no idea what they were doing. For…
The Bulldogs’ best is electric, their worst catastrophic. When they’re on, their passages slot seamlessly into the 2016 catalogue. Too often though, they look…
Once, Taylor Walker was special. Walker wouldn’t dart through traffic so much as he’d absorb it – like a drunken Scott Pendlebury – attacking…
Thanks mate. I disagree about 08 Kobe simply because of the age difference (Kobe was 30, Deron 24). The Lakers would obviously never have traded him for sentimental reasons, but I think plenty of teams around the league would have taken the much younger Deron over him. Dwight is more difficult to argue against, although he didn’t fully emerge as ‘Dwight’ until a year later. Given that Deron had taken Utah to the Western Conference finals and lit it up in the playoffs, whereas Dwight had done virtually nothing in the playoffs to that point, I think there’s a ‘credible’ argument that a team might not trade Deron for Dwight, even if it’s not an especially good one. In total agreement though in hoping Deron gets back to his best. On his day he’s one of the most exciting players in the league to watch.
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