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Oklahoma City Thunder poised to become NBA's next dynasty
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 05/11/2025
» Is the NBA Dynasty dead? We haven't had a repeat champ in The League since the Stephen Curry-led Golden State Warriors pulled off the feat in the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 campaigns -- that's eight seasons ago.
Rugged play on rise in playoffs
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 07/05/2025
» The old saying "basketball is a contact sport, football is a collision sport" sure doesn't apply to the NBA these days.
Laker loot! Mavericks trade future for fragile AD
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 19/02/2025
» NBA history was made in the controversial trade that saw the Dallas Mavericks ship Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis. Never before had there been such a superstar-for-superstar swap.
Big men: Scoring centres are still the NBA's secret sauce
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 22/11/2024
» The more things change in the NBA -- in-season tournament, ever-changing all star game format, etc -- the more things stay the same.
World catching up rapidly on America
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 09/08/2023
» Former American Negro League baseball legend Leroy "Satchel" Paige once warned: "Don't look back, someone may be gaining on you."
Pelinka sheds light on the real Magic
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 26/05/2019
» Magic Johnson once again made headlines recently. No, make that TWICE made headlines of late.
Big Three losing their lure in modern era
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 09/12/2018
» 'It's the beautiful game," pundits have often rhapsodised about soccer (Americans employ that term -- and they also say to-may-to, while the rest of the world says football and to-mah-to).
Getting sporty at historic, cultural sites
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 11/11/2018
» Wiggins' World recently expanded its horizons, going on a southwestern Europe sojourn that included stops in Bordeaux in France, Madrid and Barcelona in Spain and Lisbon in Portugal.
How this 'Greatest Show By Surf' came about
Dave Wiggins, Published on 04/11/2018
» Hmmm, which “hook” to use for this week’s Wiggins’ World subject, the NFL’s red-hot Los Angeles Rams?
James would only muck things up at 76ers
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 08/07/2018
» Recently, every night when Wiggins' World took a knee -- no, not THAT kind of knee -- this was his prayer: Please, please, Lord; pretty please with sugar on top: Do NOT let free agent LeBron James sign with my hometown team, the Philadelphia 76ers.