When Patty Mills hits a 3-pointer, Spurs play-by-play announcer Bill Land shouts “G’Day Mate!” or “Good On Ya!” as a nod to Mills’ Australian heritage. In Western Australia, there are two professional basketball players who know that voice well.
Land’s sons, Taylor and Cooper, are living out their hoop dreams in Australia’s State Basketball League. They both play in Rockingham, 10,400 miles away from San Antonio, which might be the farthest basketball team from the Spurs. And in the land of kangaroos and koala bears, the Lands found a second home.
Taylor is in his fifth season and Cooper in his fourth Down Under, and both called the experience a “dream come true.