Tuesday 24th December 2024,
The Hoop Doctors

Ryan Bawek

Raptors Won’t Sign Vince Carter if Bought Out

Raptors Won’t Sign Vince Carter if Bought Out

Vince Carter is still incredibly building upon his hall of fame career at age 41, but as a player with a minimal role for one of the worst teams in the NBA, the Sacramento Kings, and on a one-year contract, the tea leaves seem to be reading that he will be bought out in the [...]

February 20, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

Silver: Change to 1-16 Playoff Format Has Gotten Serious Consideration

Silver: Change to 1-16 Playoff Format Has Gotten Serious Consideration

Seemingly since the new millennium, the western conference has predominately been the better and more competitive conference top to bottom in the NBA. While there are seasons in the eastern conference when a team with a record under 500. has made the postseason, there have also been years where a 48 win team has missed [...]

February 19, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

Jimmy Butler Requests to Sit Out All-Star Game for Rest

Jimmy Butler Requests to Sit Out All-Star Game for Rest

Jimmy Butler is one of the hardest working and most relied upon players in the NBA on a nightly basis. He currently leads the NBA in minutes per game at 37.3 and plays for a coach that is more notorious than almost any other in NBA history for playing his players an exorbitant amount of [...]

February 19, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

LeBron Wins 3rd NBA All-Star Game MVP

LeBron Wins 3rd NBA All-Star Game MVP

The 2018 NBA All-Star Game and the new format did not disappoint. Team LeBron beat Team Curry 148-145 in a highly entertaining spectacle of the best basketball players in the world, as team captain LeBron scored what would be the go ahead bucket in the final minute after a dish from his former teammate Kyrie [...]

February 19, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

Classic Kings: They Tried to Sneak in Papagiannis Into Deadline Trade

Classic Kings: They Tried to Sneak in Papagiannis Into Deadline Trade

Amidst the unprecedented flurry of trades that the Cleveland Cavaliers finalized in the final hours of the NBA Trade Deadline, one of their deals was a three-teamer that sent out Iman Shumpert and Derrick Rose to the Kings and Jae Crowder to the Jazz in exchange for Rodney Hood and George Hill. The trade was [...]

February 15, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

Shumpert Was Sticking Point for No Jordan Trade to Cavs

Shumpert Was Sticking Point for No Jordan Trade to Cavs

It was known for weeks that the Cavaliers were trying to acquire Clippers All-NBA Center DeAndre Jordan. It just made too much sense with the Cavaliers dire need for more rim protection, size and athleticism and the Clippers seeming to be unlikely to sign DeAndre to a new contract extension this summer. By the time [...]

February 14, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

Bucks Offered Parker $18 Million Annual Extension

Bucks Offered Parker $18 Million Annual Extension

Jabari Parker’s rookie deal is up at the end of this season and the former No. 2 pick of the 2014 NBA Draft did not sign an extension with the team before the deadline this past October. This is likely because Parker was in the midst of recovering from his second torn ACL in his [...]

February 14, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

Hottest Team in the NBA: Jazz Win 10th Straight

Hottest Team in the NBA: Jazz Win 10th Straight

The Utah Jazz are playing the best basketball of anyone in the NBA right now. After coming back from a 13 point deficit, they were able to take down the San Antonio Spurs at home without Ricky Rubio. A Donovan Mitchell jumper with 32 seconds left would end up sealing the deal… The Jazz are [...]

February 13, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

Wizards Seriously Considering Ty Lawson

Wizards Seriously Considering Ty Lawson

With knee surgery putting All-Star point guard John Wall on the shelf for the next month to month and a half, the Wizards are in dire need of some depth at the point guard position. Apparently they may be setting their sights on a guy who has been playing in China and is a former [...]

February 13, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

Dwyane Wade on Return to Heat: “This is it for me guys”

Dwyane Wade on Return to Heat: “This is it for me guys”

At the age of 36 and in his 15th NBA season with a ton of mileage on his body, Dywane Wade’s hall of fame career is starting to wind down. After spending his first 13 seasons in Miami, Wade played for his hometown Bulls after signing with them in free agency in 2016 and spent [...]

February 12, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0