Offbeat

June 8, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors LeBron James put on a masterful performance last night in Boston: 45, 15 and 5. There wasn’t anything that anybody on the Celtics could do to slow him down. In fact, the only thing anyone in that building could do to rattle LeBron was to dump a drink [...]

June 8, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Kevin Durant has been putting in extra hours off the court to star in his first feature film. The plot is your standard, Kid loves basketball but isn’t good, Kid gets struck with magic switcheroo to steal Durant’s skills, Kid realizes skills don’t make you a better person, [...]

June 7, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors This of course all depends on how you look at her fandom. If you are a Heat fan, this is just one more reason to love UFC Ring Girl Arianny Celeste. [...]

June 7, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Ron Artest made a trip up to Canada apparently. Vancouver to be exact. And while you’re in Canada why not stop by CTV and do a spot as the ‘Weatherman’? “It’s Raining Everywhere!!”, he proclaims. This guy never ceases to amaze me. And he always provides endless fodder [...]

June 7, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Who needs rest, right? I guess all the critics talking about San Antonio being too old to hang with the Thunder were right. For evidence just look at Durant’s stat line from Game 6 last night. He played all 48 minutes of the game without a rest. And [...]

June 7, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors I was reading an ESPN blog called True Hoop by Henry Abbott today and came across this really interesting excerpt from a Larry Bird book called “Bird Watching”. The excerpt is basically a recount of a story from Larry Bird when he was on the set of the [...]

June 7, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors After another amazing second half performance by Durant, Westbrook, and the Thunder, these young guns should be able to wear whatever they want, right? Well Russell Westbrook continues to take that freedom and run with it. Check out another post-game press conference shirt from Westbrook that will give [...]

June 6, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Is anyone else starting to think that being an NBA player means you have to do some whack a$$ things in your kitchen, then you have to post them on twitter for the world to see. Last week DeShawn Stevenson posted this picture from his kitchen where he [...]

June 6, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors And for those of you that say the Celtics were NOT a huge underdog coming into this series. And also, for those of you that are ESPN fanboys. It’s not like we called Celtics to win, but we certainly have at least one guy in our shop that [...]

June 5, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors No, this isn’t a joke. These T-Shirts are really for sale in the NBA store. The Orlando Magic are desperately trying to repair their image after the Dwight Howard debacle. They are trying to make it seem as if Dwight never flirted with leaving. But they are guilty [...]