BALLS.403 Chaos is a ladder

This week: final day permutations, three-way tiebreakers, nowhere to run, the Pacers’ turning point, handshake agreements, Houston might yet finish .500, bench punch, the future is in the future, Grayson Allen has an NBA skill, two old teams enter one old team ends, exporting your computer to Ameri…

BALLS.402 Spamming the Wemby button

This week: ice bath deep dives, turning a knob down*, sleepwalking to the playoffs, how do I explain that I have no external monologue, the Wayne Carey of baseball, all Wemby all the time, Western scrums, historic faithlessness, inadvisable tanking, has Bob Myers blocked Mike Dunleavy’s number yet,…

BALLS.401 Boomers in Paris

This week: the Rockets’ red glare, goodnight San Francisco, regicide, unnecessary runups, unwritten rules, the hot hand fallacy fallacy, someone has to be on NBA TV, recycled Heat storylines, I totally meant to do that: the Joe Mazzulla story, showing your working, Naz Reid Appreciation Night, is ‘…

BALLS.400 What have been the most significant sporting moments across your lifetime?

This week: in a Very Special Big Round Number Episode of the BALLS Podcast, Doc, Beeso and Adam draft the most significant sporting moments of our lifetimes. If you want to help create more memories like this, donate to help Beeso’s Phillippines mixed open kids make it to the World Cup in Manchest…

BALLS.399 Christian single in your area

This week: pretending to have watched classic movies, one short, whose line is it anyway, regrets in Milwaukee, nightmares in Boston, redrawn axes, end-of-clock grenades, Naz has bars, having That Guy, ironing fruit, lacking respect for your authoritah, the best ability, the Red Bull civil war, a f…

BALLS.398 One-sided beef week

This week: follow-on cowardice, sucking isn’t a tactic, Victorians doing it better, signs of great captaincy, fake World Cups, no means no, Beeso has Brisbane Olympics Fever™, ESPN shouty-show talking points, SOS signals, Man Citying your way to the #1, having one of those players, there's no (plan…

BALLS.397 I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul

This week: We fix the ‘we fix the NBA All Star Game’ podcasts, the Doc Rivers Pre-Apology Tour, Big NRL silences Beeso and our Massive Overreactions To One Game: Mid-Season Edition. Also: NBA quiet quitting, AFL All-Australian, 5001 Jokes for Kids, monologuing off, no-stakes injuries, Starry nights…

BALLS.396 A bit too much America

This week in sport: Cold transitions, Western melees, altitude problems, underwhelming fortnights, something to believe in, Mavs adds, MJ’s mates, mispronouncing Artūras Karnišovas, betting on the inevitable Boston bedwetting, a week off from Doc, a long rumination on whether today’s Spurs are capa…

BALLS.395 I’m not that kind of doctor

This week: Rotorua to Houston, Joel Embkneed, voodoo science, did the players really sign up to this, forty million American dollars, too cheap to be allowed to own a NBA team, dance monkey, having Haberstroh on retainer, getting shirty, root down, weird Jazz, don’t make Australasia’s most Knicks-p…

BALLS.394 The NBA has gone 0 days since being unnecessarily dramatic

This week: the NBA All-Star starters, the Bucks call for the Doc, Rivals Week, failed opening gambits, the Windies are back (?) and our accidental NFL conference finals preview. Also: Zero-day exploits, fan service, Cavs conundrums, #PRUNTYSZN, vibes-based regimes, if it’s not broke don’t break it…