Star Melbourne United pairing Caleb Agada and Chris Goulding again combined to lead their team to victory against the Sydney Kings at Qudos Bank Arena on Sunday. After trailing 27-34 early in the second term, United grabbed the lead five minutes before half-time and didn’t relinquish it for the remainder of the contest as they ran out 82-68 victors. A […]

A WNBL coach and referee have been handed hefty bans by Basketball Australia after they were found to have “misused” training footage of the Sydney Flames. The Sydney Flames had participated in the filming of their training scrimmage, with the confidential video clips to be used by the WNBL’s referees for education purposes. But the WNBL found referee Simon Cosier, […]

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Wednesday’s rivalry game between Kentucky and Louisville has been postponed due to positive COVID-19 tests within the Cardinals’ program, both schools announced Monday morning. Louisville also announced it was pausing all team-related activities indefinitely due to multiple positive tests. Starting center Malik Williams missed the Cardinals’ loss to […]

No. 4 UCLA canceled its second game this week as it continues to deal with COVID-19 cases within the team. UCLA was slated to play UNC in the CBS Sports Classic on Saturday in Las Vegas. However, after the team canceled its Wednesday game against Alabama State, Saturday’s game seemed unlikely. The Bruines held out hope though, as they waited […]

Australian Patty Mills shot a season-high 30 points and Kevin Durant had 34 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists as the shorthanded Brooklyn Nets outlasted the visiting Toronto Raptors for a 131-129 overtime victory on Wednesday (AEDT). The Nets rallied from an 11-point deficit on a night when they had only eight players available due to seven players being placed […]

When Chinese centre Zhou Qi first took the court in the NBL, some observers wondered if teams could score near the basket while his 215-centimetre frame was in the paint. But his foul trouble, and some brave attacks at the basket from the NZ Breakers, showed on Friday night that it was possible to score against the one-time Houston Rockets […]

Purdue is No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll for the first time. The Boilermakers were a unanimous No. 1 in the poll released Monday to move up from No. 2 last week. Reigning national champion Baylor moved up to No. 2, with Duke, UCLA and Gonzaga rounding out the top five. Purdue (8-0, 1-0 Big Ten) […]

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Still less than one month into the 2021-22 men’s college basketball season, we’re already onto our third No. 1 team at the top of the rankings. But this time, it was a much easier debate than last week’s. Purdue is the clear No. 1 — and based on […]

For some, pursuing your dreams means getting out of Redfern but, in Biwali Bayles’ case, it meant coming home. Home is The Block, those 8000 square metres in inner-city Sydney that, despite a recent gentrification, are still the heartbeat for a large Aboriginal community. For a long time it was all Bayles had known since shifting from Brisbane “when I […]

LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – Kevin Durant scored 30 points as the Brooklyn Nets withstood a foul-plagued game and held off the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves for a 110-105 victory on Friday night (Dec 3) at New York. The Nets won for the 14th time in 17 games on a night when the officiating crew of Kane Fitzgerald, Dedric Taylor and Nick […]