Anstey: Why Giddey is all-time Aussie great at 20
OKC weren’t supposed to contend for years but because of Josh Giddey’s remarkable rise, their time is now, writes CHRIS ANSTEY.
OKC weren’t supposed to contend for years but because of Josh Giddey’s remarkable rise, their time is now, writes CHRIS ANSTEY.
Names like Gaze and Heal might be fresh in our memories, but Davies and Smyth must also be celebrated. CHRIS ANSTEY adds these names and more into his list of the NBL’s greatest players.
After an NBA and NBL career, CHRIS ANSTEY was approached by Shane Crawford about a footy switch that very nearly happened.
Incredulity ran through the crowd when the Dallas Mavericks picked a 7ft unproven international player in the 1998 draft. What followed was one of the greatest careers ever, writes CHRIS ANSTEY.
CHRIS ANSTEY sat on the baseline for Josh Giddey’s historic triple-double at Madison Square Garden. What he saw up close from the Aussie NBA star was extraordinary.
Luc Longley once wrote a heartfelt letter to a basketball hero, which was received but never acknowledged. CHRIS ANSTEY returns the gesture to the humble great after a remarkable road trip.
Simmons, Delly and Ingles are back but a new generation of Aussie stars is set to light up the NBA this season, writes CHRIS ANSTEY.
Liz Cambage left a big hole in the Opals World Cup hopes but the comeback of Lauren Jackson has completed the front court puzzle.
CHRIS ANSTEY still remembers the chilling words: ‘Get in … let’s see how you go on Shaq’. It was just his sixth NBA game and things did not go well.
CHRIS ANSTEY had an ironclad rule about hospitals while playing basketball in Russia, yet a sudden emergency left him naked, freezing and strapped to a table while awake as a scalpel approached.