Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Barkley weren’t impressed by the Lakers trading for Rui Hachimura earlier this week. During TNT’s postgame show on Friday (AEDT), the pair took a few jabs at the 24-year-old forward and his new team, with O’Neal saying he didn’t even know who the former Wizards player was. Watch an average of...
Brooklyn Nets coach Jacque Vaughn appears to be growing increasingly frustrated with Aussie Ben Simmons. For the second time this season, Simmons failed to see out the second game of a back-to-back, leaving in the third quarter of the Nets’ loss to the lowly Detroit Pistons with ‘knee soreness’. Simmons has missed a number of...
Clemson basketball guard Brevin Galloway added some painful details to what the university labelled an “abdominal issue” Thursday night. Galloway doesn’t know why “my balls and my nut sack were exploded.” All Galloway did was lift in the morning and take a nap. Then, just three hours later, he had undergone surgery to reduce his...
Ben Simmons has sent ex-fiance May Jama a $1 million USD ($A1.4m) legal demand as their separation begins to get messy. The Aussie basketballer is demanding the English TV star return the $1 million diamond engagement ring given to her when they celebrated their engagement. The NBA star got down on one knee to the...
It was supposed to be a “bloodbath”. A Mount Rushmore of quarterbacks in the AFC West. The all-conquering Kansas City Chiefs, led by Patrick Mahomes, suddenly found themselves in a division where all three other teams had pushed their pieces to the middle of the table. The Broncos (Russell Wilson), Raiders (Davante Adams) and Chargers...
The Dallas Mavericks will be sweating on the availability of superstar Luka Doncic after the Slovenian went down injured in their 99-95 win over the Phoenix Suns. Doncic lasted just three minutes on Friday before going down with a sprained ankle and although the exact nature of his injury is unknown, the X-ray came back...
The Brooklyn Nets have been urged to consider trading Ben Simmons as the gun-shy Australian struggles to score – or even try and score. Simmons was brought in to help superstar duo Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant bring a title back to Brooklyn. And while Irving and (currently injured) Durant were today named All-Star starters,...
Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James and Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo will captain the NBA All-Star Game teams next month after final voting that saw Philadelphia star Joel Embiid fail to earn a starting spot. James will tie Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — the man he is on track to overtake as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer —...
The drama never stops in the NBL as the playoff race heats up with the second last round of the season already underway with the South East Melbourne Phoenix getting an important win, the Cairns Taipans losing their superstar again and unfortunately the wrong focus coming on Pride Round. There remains seven teams locked in...
The San Francisco 49ers are, somewhat remarkably, just four quarters away from a second Super Bowl appearance in four years. On the surface, it might seem harsh to call San Francisco’s run remarkable given the plethora of talent on both sides of the ball. Watch every game of the NFL Postseason including the Super Bowl,...