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January 12, 2011 – THD Podcast This week on THD Podcast Kevin Burke discusses the latest happenings around the league… If you often find yourself too busy to watch The Hoop Doctors Podcasts, get them on the go for your iPhone or iPod! Subscribe to our Podcasts in the iTunes Directory, free of charge. Also, [...]

January 12, 2011 – Kevin Burke Can you imagine the pressure on the son of the greatest man to ever touch a basketball? Can you even fathom the basketball scrutiny and critique with which he much endure daily? No matter what type of player he would turn out to be, he would forever be compared to [...]

January 11, 2011 – Joshua Sexton Make no mistake, since Hedo Turkoglu left the Orlando Magic in the Summer of 2009 the team has missed his unique talents. What was not as obvious was the way Turkoglu has missed the Magic. After leading the team to the Finals in 2009, Turkoglu signed a contract with [...]

January 11, 2011 – Allen Moll Win or lose, buzzer beaters are arguably the most entertaining of any type of shot in the game of basketball. After all, how many games come down to the final ticks of the game clock, with a player attempting a last gasp, final toss towards the rim and who [...]

January 10, 2011 – Kevin Burke They are still the highest scoring offense in the entire league and in most cases, they can run people out of the gym. But that’s usually only the case when their shots are falling (since they shoot so many 3s). When they’re not, it’s a different story. To that [...]

January 10, 2011 – Allen Moll Now that the 2010-2011 NCAA season is roughly a third of the way complete, we are starting to get a clear picture of just who are this year’s prime time players(to borrow Dickie V’s famous saying) in college basketball.  Many of the NBA’s future pro prospects overseas have also [...]

January 8, 2011 – Kevin Burke All-Star weekend is continuing to take shape and a few days ago we told you who would be participating in the dunk contest. The voting ballots for starter of the game opened up about 8 minutes after the season began but it’s becoming clearer who the starters will be. We’ll find out who [...]

January 7, 2011 – Chip Patterson Follow on Twitter – @cnpatterson3 NBA Power Rankings 1 Boston Celtics The Celtics nearly blew it against the Spurs, but as long as Rondo can deliver 20+ assist games when called on, this team will be awfully hard to beat in a seven game series. 2 San Antonio Spurs [...]

January 7, 2011 – Allen Moll If current Duke Blue Devils Mason and Miles Plumlee decide to remain on campus past this season, they will form quite a potent front-court trio when the youngest, and arguably the most talented Plumlee brother named Marshall, will join his older brethren as one of Coach K’s fabulous freshmen, joining [...]

January 7, 2011 – Joshua Sexton During Tuesday night’s win against the Pistons, Kobe surpassed Dominique Wilkins, and moved into tenth place on the all-time scoring list.  After his 24 points against the Suns on Wednesday, Kobe is only 16 points away from passing Oscar Robertson for ninth place. In a nutshell, Kobe is starting [...]