Rumors

December 23, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors For the second consecutive off-season, the Nets have been more or less shutout although they were thought to be big players heading in. He’s certainly not Dwight Howard but Mehmet Okur will have to do for now. The Utah Jazz traded All-Star center Mehmet Okur to the New [...]

December 22, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Orlando beat Miami in a tight one, 104-100, in last night’s preseason action. Although you read too much into preseason games, one thing you can tell is that Quentin Richardson of the Magic doesn’t really like Lebron James all that much. Check out this little shoving match they [...]

December 22, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The Mavs are losing pieces of last year’s championship puzzle left and right. Gone are Tyson Chandler, J.J. Barea and now DeShawn Stevenson. The Nets have agreed to terms with free agent guard DeShawn Stevenson and expect to sign him today according to a person with an understanding [...]

December 22, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors At first it appeared as if Dalembert was going to be a King, but that somehow fell through. Now, he’s a rocket. Not the defensive presence that he once was but still effective. A person with knowledge of the deal says free agent center Samuel Dalembert has agreed [...]

December 22, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Last week a reporter asked Kobe if he would be excited about the first preseason game versus the new-look Clippers. He laughed the reporter off. But if you watched that game, it was clear that he was going all out. So much so that he landed awkwardly on [...]

December 21, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The details in this are still becoming uncovered but one thing is for certain: this isn’t what Mark Jackson wanted to deal with to start his coaching career. The Warriors and guard Monta Ellis are being sued by a former employee for sexual harassment. According to an email [...]

December 21, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The threat of Dwight Howard leaving the Orlando Magic becomes stronger with each passing day. And with Chris Paul getting his wish and being traded, it makes it seem more likely that Dwight will get his way too. But in one of the more bizarre turn of events, [...]

December 21, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors A few days ago, we told you that Peja Stojakovic was retiring, now McDyess. It seems more and more as if there aren’t as many “old-school” veterans in today’s game like there used to be. The Spurs had hoped a short post-lockout season might help them convince veteran [...]

December 20, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Anyone else pumped to see Shaq join the NBA on TNT crew on Thursday’s this season? Check out this hilarious promo for Shaq joining the team…. [...]

December 20, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors We know, we know it’s just preseason. But if you watched the game last night, you could see that it had playoff intensity as crazy as that sounds. Each team was trying to prove something to the other. But in the end, the Clippers looked much better. Is [...]