Andrew Gaze will depart as Sydney Kings coach after the NBL finals, to be closer to his family in Melbourne.
It’s All Star time! Team Giannis tackles Team Lebron, as the highly entertaining 2019 NBA All-Star weekend draws to a close. Join The Roar for lives scores and a blog of the match, starting from 12 noon AEDT.
The NBL regular season concludes with a Melbourne United-Perth Wildcats Sunday blockbuster leading into the awards night and while Sydney Kings captain Kevin Lisch thinks Andrew Bogut should sweep them, it remains a wide-open race for a number of accolades.
A dour and at times ugly Super Bowl has seen the New England Patriots defeat the Los Angeles Rams by ten points at the Mercedez-Benz Arena in Atlanta, with Tom Brady winning his sixth.
For the Brisbane Bullets, Illawarra Hawks and New Zealand Breakers, they have no choice but to beat teams above them to take part in the NBL finals while the Adelaide 36ers just can’t afford a slip up against the Cairns Taipans.
The Sydney Kings needed more size and rebounding, while the Adelaide 36ers needed a proven quality three man, with both clubs having signed Ray Turner and Demitrius Conger, respectively, in the hopes they are the final pieces of their NBL championship puzzles.
The tightness of the NBL was again on show in Round 14 with the top three teams all dropping a game, the bottom-placed team scoring a win and those in between beginning to sort themselves out in the fight for fourth.
Jesse Wagstaff is now a 300-game player in the NBL so there’s not much the four-time Perth Wildcats championship winner hasn’t seen, but a losing slide threatening a playoff berth is something new ahead of a crucial home clash with Melbourne United.
There are five rounds of the NBL season remaining and with seven teams still in the finals mix, there is going to be quite the sprint to the finish line to be part of playoff action.
The debate now escalates, Tom Brady or Michael Jordan.
The Philadelphia 76ers have a puncher’s chance to make the NBA finals based on sheer talent, but no one is favouring them to take out the Eastern Conference.
Giannis Antetokounmpo is the baddest man in Milwaukee.
The Boston Celtics have one of the best squads in the entire league. They have depth in every position, and Brad Stevens is given the tough job of attempting to figure out the best line-up to put onto the floor each night.
Johnny Walker was pretty stoked to get the win in front of his home fans in Brazil!
The NHL has a reputation when it comes to fighting. And that reputation apparently extends to its mascots too.
If there is one thing to be learnt from this, let it be – do not get on Greta Rogers’ bad side.
3 lead changes in 30 seconds, and how about THAT Hail Mary!
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