Dr. Anklesnap

May 21, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap He is known in Detroit and now in Denver as “Mr. Big Shot” or “Big Shot Billups”. He has earned that nickname by finding ways to score late in quarters, halves, and games when his team needs a score. Denver point guard Chauncey Billups is just one of those [...]

May 20, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap Big man Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic has been calling himself ‘Superman’ for the past few seasons in the NBA. We all know that the nickname ‘Superman’ for a basketball player has been reserved for sometime now for the Big Diesel Shaquille O’Neal. Well during the early part [...]

May 19, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap Tuesday is the kick-off of this year’s conference finals with the Western Conference match between the LA Lakers and Denver Nuggets. On Wednesday the Cleveland Cavaliers and Orlando Magic will follow with the start to the East series. This year it feels like we have sort of stumbled into [...]

May 18, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap Anyone who has ever been called a ‘gym rat’, knows that after practice when you are lingering in the gym with your boys and throwing some wild shots up, one or two of them are worthy of a Sports Center nod. And then there is Lebron James of the [...]

May 16, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap Even though the first couple Lebron + Kobe puppet commercials from Nike were nothing to write home about, this new one certainly made me crack a smile. I wonder if Nike was expecting a Lebron/Kobe NBA Finals when they filmed these? Maybe they should have prepped a Ron Artest [...]

May 13, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap For all the drama between Mark Cuban and Kenyon Martin that we have read about over the last couple of days, the final game in the series was lacking in any sort of off the court excitement. Then again Mark Cuban was unable to attend the game due to [...]

May 10, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap All of Houston hung their heads when word was released yesterday that Yao Ming was out for the remainder of the playoffs with an ankle injury. But the Houston Rockets players didn’t hang their heads. Instead they came out in today’s Game 4 match-up against the #1 seeded Los [...]

May 9, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap The news is breaking this morning that former Pistons Coach Chuck Daly has died at 78. Daly won back to back NBA Championships with the Pistons, was an Olympic Gold medalist as Coach of the original ‘Dream Team’ in 1992, and he was considered amongst his peers in the [...]

May 8, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap Someone needs to have a talk with Lebron James. Like seriously man. If you keep us this damn excited in the early rounds of the 2009 NBA Playoffs we will have nothing left for the NBA Finals. With all of these ridiculous long range buzzer beaters out of your [...]

May 7, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap Ron Artest is certainly one of the toughest guys in the league. He’s the type of guy you definitely don’t want to see staring back at you in a street fight. Is it because he’s the strongest player in the league? No. Is it because he’s the best fighter [...]