Question of the week: Do any of the NBA’s Eastern Conference fringe playoff teams actually want to make the postseason? Asking for a friend or 50 here. Seriously, once you leave the East’s top-six teams—Hawks(!), Raptors, Wizards, Bulls, Cavaliers and Bucks—it feels like you’ve entered the “Let’s try and suck as much as possible in order to [...]
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NBA Power Rankings: There is Life in Cleveland
There’s something truly zany about the 2014-15 NBA season. It’s been weird. It’s still weird. It’s truly, utterly, completely, wholly, wonderfully, purely, perfectly zany. Allow me to offer up Exhibit A: These here power rankings. Collective movement is neither enormous nor insubstantial. There is virtually no change at the top. But then we get into the [...]
Top 10 NBA Backcourts: By The Numbers
This season, Wizards shooting guard Bradley Beal told USA Today that himself and Wall are, “definitely the best backcourt in the league.” But, after his dismissal from the Warriors, former Head Coach Mark Jackson called Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry the, “greatest shooting backcourt in the history of the game.” Since then, the question of [...]
2015 NBA Mock Draft – Version 3.0
With the 2014-15 NBA and NCAA seasons nearing the halfway point, and the 2015 NBA Draft now less than 6 months away, it’s time once again to take a look at the top 1st Round prospects for the upcoming Draft. It’s becoming pretty clear that the top overall prize in the 2015 Draft is Duke [...]
Watch: 7’5 Tacko Falls Drops 44 Pts, 17 Reb, Ties Shawn Bradley’s HS Record
Last season, the nation started to take notice of 7’5 high school player Tacko Fall, as he literally towered over and dominated most of the competition. He has has an amazing journey, beginning halfway around the World in Senegal, to now earning a NCAA Division I scholarship to the University of Central Florida, playing high [...]
NBA Power Rankings: Cavs Aren’t Best Team in History of Everything Ever
Hello again. After a brief holiday respite, during which a crap ton of NBA-related things happened, The Hoop Doctors’ power rankings are back. We know it’s been tough, slogging through these last two weeks without the ability to incessantly check and read and cherish and tell your friends about updated power rankings. But the wait [...]
