Category: NBA

In short: A lower back injury has ended Ben Simmons’s NBA season after he struggled to get on the court all season. It is the third season in a row that the Australian’s campaign has ended prematurely due to injury. What’s next? The number one draft pick has one year and about $US40 million remaining on his...

Aussie basketball legend Patty Mills has signed with the Miami Heat for the rest of the 2023-24 NBA season. The new deal came just days after he was cut from the Atlanta Hawks, ESPN reported. Mills has been signed on with the Heat in a short-term deal ending after this season’s playoffs. The 35-year-old’s future...

Patty Mills’ move to title-hunters Miami has smoothed his path to Paris, the four-time Olympic great poised for an immediate Heat impact after enduring the quietest of his 15 NBA seasons. ESPN reported on Tuesday that the 35-year-old Boomers mainstay would be going to Florida after being released by the Atlanta Hawks five days earlier....

He joined Atlanta after trades from Brooklyn to Houston, Oklahoma City and then to the Hawks through a dramatic off-season. The spot-up shooter, described as a “flat-out legend” by NBA great and former teammate Kevin Durant, has played 15 seasons in the NBA for a total of 879 career games, including a decade with the...

Patty Mills has signed with the Miami Heat for the rest of the 2023-24 NBA season. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported the Australian has found a new home just days after he was brutally axed by the Atlanta Hawks. ESPN reports Mills’ short-term deal will expire after this season’s playoffs. Watch an average of 9...

Australian Duop Reath drained a career-high 26 points for the Portland Trail Blazers, the 27-year-old rookie continuing his remarkable NBA surge just weeks after having his two-way contract upgraded to a three-year deal. Reath nailed 5-of-6 from beyond the arc – also a career-best – and added three rebounds, one assist, one steal and one...

Josh Giddey has sparked the Oklahoma Thunder early as they rolled past the struggling Memphis Grizzlies 124-93 to remain on top of the NBA’s Western Conference standings. Australian Giddey finished the home game with 16 points and 10 rebounds, having posted 11 points, four rebounds and three assists in the first quarter as he led...

Australia’s Duop Reath has produced a heroic effort to lead the scoring for an injury-ravaged Portland, but could not prevent a three-point NBA loss to Denver. The Trail Blazers were forced to start five rookies – the first team to do so since 2012 – and the 27-year-old Reath was the most prolific amongst them...

Australia’s Patty Mills has made a promising debut for Miami, but it wasn’t enough to spare the Heat from going down to Oklahoma City by seven points. Used sparingly by his former club Atlanta before being waived, the Boomers veteran enjoyed 16 minutes of court time with the Heat in the 107-100 loss. Mills posted...

When the going gets tough the tough get going, just ask Oklahoma City point guard Josh Giddey. The Australian star had another night to remember in the NBA as he led the Thunder to a 128-103 win over the Phoenix Suns on Friday night (Saturday AEDT). Giddey was dominant again in the absence of  All-Star...

Josh Green’s hopes of representing Australia at the Paris Olympics will rest on scans and rehabilitation after he suffered an ankle injury during Dallas’s 126-119 NBA defeat at Oklahoma City. With the Mavericks already missing superstar Slovenian Luka Doncic (hamstring) for Friday’s (AEDT) clash with the Thunder, Green went down early in the opening quarter....