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February 29, 2011 – Allen Moll The basketball world has lost a good one. World renowned streetball artist Troy “Escalade” Jackson has passed away at the all too young age of 35, due to complications from heart disease. While in L.A. for NBA All Star weekend, the younger brother of former NBA legend and current [...]

Every week, The Hoop Doctors' Kevin Burke recaps the latest happenings with the new look Knicks. Here's his update for the week ending February 28. [...]

The Captain Morgan BracketMaster Challenge is heating up and The Hoop Doctors' Morganette, Raven, needs your votes to get out of the first round. [...]

February 25, 2011 – Allen Moll The game of basketball is filled with oddities, abnormalities, and luck  just like any other sport. In baseball we’ve seen a routine fly ball careen off of Jose Canseco’s melon and over the fence for a home run. In football, there is the Steelers Franco Harris and the Immaculate [...]

In a shocker, the Nets traded for Deron Williams. Because they've struck out as far as acuiring star players, were the Nets forced to overpay for Williams? [...]

February 25, 2011 – Joshua Sexton It was argued back and forth for almost six months if the Nets or Knicks were going to acquire Carmelo Anthony from the Denver Nuggets. One day a deal would seem inevitable. Other days it seemed like nothing more but a mere fantasy. On Monday, all of the Carmelo [...]

February 25, 2011 – Allen Moll What does the NCAA’s active winningest head coach on the nation’s defending national championship squad do to replace his unquestioned team leader, 4 year starter, and former Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four upon graduation? That is the daunting task soon to be faced by Duke coach Mike [...]

Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups provide a glimpse of what's to come in their Knicks debut. [...]

February 24, 2011 – Allen Moll This 2010-2011 NCAA basketball season so far has been filled with so many outstanding individual moments from players like BYU’s Jimmer Fredette, Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger, and Texas’ Jordan Hamilton. But 3 other Division I players have a chance to accomplish something special that has only been done by [...]

February 24, 2011 – Allen Moll Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers’ youngest son Austin Rivers is just bananas. He has had such an outstanding senior year at Winter Park HS in Florida that he overtook other top flight prospects like Michael Gilchrist(St Patricks) and Anthony Davis(Perspectives) to rank as the consensus #1 overall player in [...]