The NBA has allowed its regular season to be turned into an unwatchable mess. With games having too many stoppages, players missing games due to the poor schedule, and nearly half the league currently tanking for draft picks in early February, changes need to be made to make the season interesting to watch. Here are…
The New York Knicks entered the 2024/25 NBA season as one of the favourites to take out the NBA title with bookmakers after so strong moves they made in the off season, but as they currently sit with a record of 10-8, questions do have to be asked about whether or not they will be…
The Golden State Warriors have surprised pretty much everyone with their 10-2 start to the NBA season. At the start of the NBA season bookmakers set the Golden State Warriors odds of making the NBA Playoffs at a moderate rate, but most expected them to be involved in Play-In games to secure their place. As…
The Houston Rockets have beaten the Detroit Pistons 101-99 in a game between two teams that have spent the last few years trying to rebuild through the NBA Draft. The win sees the Rockets move to a record of 6-4 which leaves them in 9th place in the stacked Western Conference. The Pistons meanwhile move…
The great start to the NBA season by the LA Lakers has cooled off, with the club sitting at 4-3 and at 6th in the western conference standings. The Lakers normally carry a lot of money with bookmakers early in the season as their fans get on board looking for success early in the season….
So you want to know which players made the NBA’s list of the top 50 players over the first 50 years of the NBA’s history? Well, you’ve come to the right place! To celebrate 50 years of the NBA in 1996 the league named its 50 greatest players of all time. The players on that…
So you want to know who has won the most Finals Most Valuable Player awards in NBA history? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls has won a total of 6 NBA Finals MVP awards. He won them during the 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998 NBA Finals…
For those of you living under a rock, ESPN and Netflix has been airing a documentary series about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls over the last two weeks that is pretty good viewing. I was lucky enough to see a whole lot of Michael Jordans career, so a lot of the series is just…
In this episode we look at some current off field issues that have hit the NRL in recent days. We talk in depth about the Wests Tigers recruitment and their future. We then talk about the tragic passing of NBA legend Kobe Bryant. You can also follow Andrew Ferguson and The Glorious League Freak on their respective twitter accounts….
The New Orleans Pelicans have taken Zion Williamson from Duke with the number one pick in the 2019 NBA Draft. The 6 ft 7 in forward was a consensus first round pick going into the draft and his highlight reel shows why. It will be interesting to see how the Pelicans use Williamson. There has…
It was a much hyped, much anticipated return to the NBA Finals of an NBA Finals MVP, but it all went horribly wrong as Kevin Durant appeared to tear his Achilles in the first half of a dramatic game 5 win over the Toronto Raptors in the 2019 NBA Finals. Durant has scored 11 points…
This was always the plan. From the moment Draymond Green started his pursuit of Kevin Durant following the Golden State Warriors dramatic collapse against Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016 the plan was to put together a squad that could stand up to injuries, suspension, teams built to beat them and anything else…
In this weeks episode Andrew Ferguson and League Freak look back at the fight by Dennis Tutty to fight for the rights of players to be able to move between clubs freely, how that lead to the modern day Rugby League contract, failed moves to bring a draft into the NRL, and why an NRL…
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry has become the first player in NBA history to be voted the NBA MVP unanimously, sweeping all 131 first placed votes. This is the second straight season Curry has been named the NBA’s MVP, and it coincides with his return to the Golden State Warriors lineup after injury kept…
Want to see the top ten long distance bombs in the NBA regular system? You are in luck:
Wanna see the top ten slam dunks of the 2016 NBA regular season? You’ve come to the right place my friend:
Check out this amazing video of the rudest, sickest, most filthy plays in the history of the NBA. There are some classic moments here, you’ll love this video!
A few days ago ESPN decided it would suspend Dan Le Batard for paying for these billboards to be posted around Akron, Ohio, home of former Miami Heat player LeBron James: While it is only a two day suspension most feel that it is an overreaction by ESPN for something that was obviously done in…
This one isn’t much of a surprise! ESPN is reporting that the Minnesota Timberwolves and Cleveland Cavaliers have agreed to a trade that will see Love sent to the Cavs in exchange for Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Bennett and a projected 1st round pick in 2015. You knew this trade was a done deal when by…
Check out this hilarious Footlocker advert featuring NBA star James Harden and former NBA stars Charles Barkley and Scottie Pippen that plays on the short memories elite players have: I wish my memory was as short as Scottie Pippens. I still remember him playing for my Houston Rockets….
The 2014-2015 NBA season will see a few changes to the way jerseys are used to represent clubs and the league itself. One of the changes that I think the NRL should adopt is one that will see each team that has won an NBA title getting a gold bar on the back of the…
Lets face it, the off season is boring. With the sad demise of international Rugby League we are left with nothing to look forward to until March when the NRL season kicks off and once again we are all back into being Rugby League tragics. The problem is, its only November. What do we do between…
I always find it very interesting when someone within Rugby League tosses up an idea that is used in another sport, when it is clear they have no idea how that idea is applied in that sport, let alone how it would be applied to Rugby League. The latest idea is the draft, and internal…
This week we saw and interesting court case in which Optus were ruled to not be breaking any laws by allowing its customers to record free to air television programs on a personal DVR and then stream that recording to their mobile devices and computers as early as 2 minutes after that television program started….
Few other sports in the world can claim to have the same high drug testing numbers that Rugby League has. Over the years we have seen players testing positive to Performance Enhancing Drugs as well as other street drugs, and while it is almost impossible to get everyone, Rugby League authorities on both sides of…