Offbeat

Just wanting to do our part, The Hoop Doctors are happy to support Nike Inc. today by letting our readers know about an important joint announcement being made today between First Lady Michelle Obama and Nike, regarding efforts to bring increased physical activity back to schools nation wide… On February 28, NIKE, Inc. President & [...]

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It’s always good to see when a starting NBA player branches out and expands his portfolio to either music or the silver screen like Shaquille O’Neal, Wilt Chamberlain, and Michael Jordan in years past, and most recently Kevin Durant, making his Hollywood debut in the movie Thunderstruck. That’s precisely the case with New Orleans Hornets, [...]

Steve Nash is a two time league MVP, and a wizard with the basketball. We always hear him described as “making his teammates better” wherever he goes and whomever he plays with. There was another great player that used to be described that way as well. Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson. And although Magic’s career was cut [...]

Jeremy Lin got enough of the spotlight and attention last year in New York, thank you very much. As the NBA All-Star weekend is now in the books, Jeremy Lin has been telling anyone who will listen that he is happy he didn’t make the all-star game (by the skin of his teeth). Lin didn’t [...]

Harden, ‘Melo, Wade, Griffin, all got to stretch a bit with their singing voices to pull off this parody of an advertisement for a CD of Love Songs. The NBA entertained fans at the All-Star Game by playing the video for the first time on the big screen… [...]

It is truly amazing when you think about the generation gap between some of the older veterans and their young blood rookie teammates. Case and point, Phoenix Suns rookie Kendall Marshall this weekend posted this picture on instagram of him as a child standing beside Jermaine O’Neal at the 2003 NBA All-Star Game. Significance? They [...]

There has been a lot of debate this season among NBA pundits as to whether or not Vince Carter is worthy of NBA Hall of Fame status. As Carter gets longer in the tooth he believes he has done enough to make to the the big show. For those that feel he’s ‘too soft’ of [...]

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