Offbeat

The Minnesota Timberwolves have a lot more talent than their record may reflect. Aside from dealing with injuries to their star point guard early in the season, people often forget just how young this team is. The Wolves move to acquire veteran Kevin Garnett will help in this regard, however Ricky Rubio had some sobering [...]

For as great as he has been throughout his career, it’s amazing that Kobe Bryant has only won one MVP. In fact, he barely won the most valuable player award that he does have. Chris Paul nearly (and probably deservedly) took that one home. This isn’t talked about much when discussing Kobe’s legacy, but that [...]

Do you think Reggie Jackson is looking to make a good impression with his new team? The Pistons won Jackson’s debut against the Washington Wizards Sunday 106-89, but not without a small hiccup for Jackson. Call it nerves, call it ‘winded’, but Jackson was going so hard on the court for the Pistons on Sunday [...]

Once again, The Hoop Doctors were fortunate enough to receive an invitation from adidas to attend their VIP Gifting Suite at NBA all-star weekend. We stopped by last year in New Orleans and did the same this year in New York as well. After checking in, we were immediately pointed towards a photo shoot, of [...]

Floyd Mayweather was taking a break from his training to get in some cardio at Michael Jordan’s private gym ‘Terminal 23’ in NYC. Apparently the gym is a state of the art facility that was built by Jordan Brand for the GOAT. Legend has it you need to be wearing all and only Jordan Brand [...]

It’s stories like these that fill our days and our hearts as NBA fans as we wait for the return of game action following All-Star Weekend. Remember when Andrew Bynum went to Philly, got injured while bowling, then made a half ass effort at rehab? We already know when Bynum was supposed to be rehabbing [...]

The basketball World just saw an impressive 3 point shooting performance by Stephen Curry on All Star weekend, as Curry scored an incredible 27 points in the Final round, to take home the 3 Point Shootout Saturday night. Curry’s performance has furthered the debate as to if he will become the NBA’s best shooter of [...]

In 2017, Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook becomes a free agent, which means that there may be a possibility that he decides to take his talents someplace else and there may be a slight chance that he considers joining the Lakers. Westbrook is well-known to be an LA Native and many purple and gold [...]

Charles Barkley has been in the news a lot lately. Not much of it good, although for fans of NBA on TNT, you probably appreciated Barkley this weekend for a few positive things. The first was Craig Sagar’s comments to the TNT crew, that Barkley and Garnett are two guys that have been calling and [...]

Portland Trailblazers star Damian Lillard has been spittin’ rhymes on and off for a while now. In fact adidas incorporated his off-court ability into their marketing plan for his shoes with 4 Bar Fridays. Remember when he spit some bars to Conan O’Brien? Well now Lillard is taking his hobby up a notch, as he [...]