BOB'S CORNER: Taking scoring to new levels
BOB'S CORNER: Our USA resident and regular correspondent BOB CRAVEN has all the big news this week, mainly about scoring! First it's Caitlin Clark raising the NCAA scoring bar for women AND men, then it is LeBron James going above and beyond the 40,000 NBA points mark. remarkable stuff.
King Brian rules as Patty feels the Heat
BRIAN Goorjian, the NBL's coaching G.O.A.T. will be back at the helm of the Sydney Kings, the club he guided to a championship threepeat in 2003-04-05, the Boomers' four-time Olympic mentor doubly delighted today with news Patty Mills is signing with the NBA's Miami Heat.
BOB'S CORNER: Victor mowing them down
BOB'S CORNER: Our man on the spot in the US, Seattle-based former Canberra import BOB CRAVEN, has taken a good hard look at the man threatening to revolutionise the NBA's San Antonio Spurs, 224cm Victor Wembanyama, who lately is putting up Kareem Abdul-Jabbar numbers.
Ta-ta Abdelfattah, as Hawks waive Patty
WHEN large numbers of your home crowd stick around to chant "sack the coach" and your team is eliminated by an under-strength but hardy foe in the playoffs first round, saying you're already planning for next year was a stretch for cut Kings coach Mahmoud Abdelfattah, waived the same day as Aussie icon Patty Mills.
BOB'S BONUS: Curry-Ionescu make their points
BOB'S BONUS: Computer and Internet issues notwithstanding, our man on the spot in the USA, BOB CRAVEN, is back with a double-dose of weekend reading, tipped off with what turned into a global phenomenon, the 3-Point battle between Steph Curry and Sabrina Ionescu.
BOB'S CORNER: Seattle set to storm back
BOB'S CORNER: Our erstwhile USA correspondent BOB CRAVEN has been beset with computer-related issues for the past week but still somehow managed to file this "quickie" for us because, let's face it, you can't keep a good man down.
BOB'S CORNER: An individual NBA scoring spree
BOB'S CORNER: OUR man on the spot in the USA, BOB CRAVEN, has his weekly round-up of all (important) things NBA, not to mention what's happening in college basketball with the NCAA Men and NCAA Women. No, actually, he DOES more than just mention it and even our controversial Ben Simmons gets a shout out!
BOB'S CORNER: Erik keen to feel the Heat
BOB'S CORNER: The NBA's Miami Heat have secured coach Erik Spoelstra on a longer-term contract for $US120million reports our American correspondent BOB CRAVEN, along with the latest on LA Clippers' Kawhi Leonard, plus some NCAA news for fans of college basketball. It's all here in your weekend read.
BOB'S BONUS: Lest we Forget those we Lost
BOB'S BONUS: The bold and the beautiful, the brave and the bold, the entertainers and the enigmatic cultural and sporting icons we love and follow ... we remember them here with our annual list of those greats who permanently left the building in 2023.
BOB'S CORNER: All quiet on the USA front?
BOB'S CORNER: The times they are a changin' according to our US correspondent BOB CRAVEN who this week reports for your weekend read that it's all quiet on the western front. And the eastern, northern and southern. So yes, prepare yourself for a hefty read as he recounts the action since Christmas.