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Last week we showed you an image of the Miami Heat’s newest “Big Five”. But what about the LA Lakers, they have a pretty big starting five themselves don’t they? Here is the first image of the Lakers new Big Five all together for the media… Who’s got the better big five? Miami or LA? [...]

Watch this dynamic time-lapse movie, documenting construction of Brooklyn’s new professional sports arena, The Barclays Center. Home of the NBA Brooklyn Nets, this game-changing stadium is captured from excavation to completion, 2008-2012… [...]

Manu Ginobili for as great as he is, has always been considered a bit of a ‘flopper’. And with the NBA enacting new rules and fines to stunt the spread of ‘flopping’, Ginobili, among others, will be the target of the refs attention in beta testing the new system. Sure, he has probably been given [...]

The last couple of seasons we have seen just how tough it is to beat Miami’s ‘Big Three’ in a 7-game series. Sure the Mavs pulled it off for the title two years ago, but this season Miami proved they could win when it counted and the Big Three became champions. Everyone knows that defending [...]

Ellen had Kobe Bryant’s superfan in the audience, who got the surprise of a lifetime on the show. [...]

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September 25, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors This is one of those injuries you don’t hear of everyday. I bet the Lakers aren’t too happy with Steve for not paying enough attention and stepping on a parking lot spike strip. This seems like a good idea for the next ‘Saw’ movie, no? INJURY UPDATE: @steveblake5 [...]

September 25, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Besides riding around Denver on a segway this summer, JaVale McGee is also spending a significant amount of time on twitter, entertaining the masses. Consider me entertained. Check out this tweet from McGee last night about the NFL replacement refs situation. A few blown calls, and…. [...]

September 24, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors It’s nothing short of incredible that grown adults are willing to sleep outside for days in order be one of the first to get their hands on a cell phone. A cell phone! So imagine their dismay when they saw Iman Shumpert of the Knicks use it as [...]

September 24, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Even though we don’t still run a ‘video of the day’ on THD, if we did, this video interview of Wilt Chamberlain in 1987 would be it. Roy Firestone conducts the interview, and Wilt takes on subjects such as his basketball career, sex, personal attitudes, race, Bill Russell, [...]