Rumors

November 23, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Lacks a bit of energy, but then again Durant could have been worse in this freestyle in a home studio with his boy Dave East. This is what players are resorting to during the Lockout to fill their time. Damn, I miss hoops. [...]

November 23, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports is reporting that their sources confirmed the NBA Owners and the Players have resumed negotiations yesterday and have continued today in an effort to save the season, in particular in time for the Christmas Day games which are a big revenue generator for [...]

November 23, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors President Obama (well, his handlers anyway) is staging a charity basketball game where proceeds with benefit the Obama Victory Fund. Retired and current NBA stars will participate. Magic Johnson has decided to participate Add Hall-of-Famer Magic Johnson, former NBA All-Star Steve Smith and current Boston Celtics standout Paul [...]

November 23, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors When the players were still deciding whether or not to accept the owners’ final offer, many thought that it should have been put to a vote amongst the 450 players. DeShawn Stevenson may have been one of them. In any event, he isn’t please with how Billy Hunter [...]

November 23, 2011 – Allen Moll Sometimes a failed dunk attempt can be every bit as entertaining or undeniably breathtaking as a successful flush. Take for instance, Shannon Brown of the Lakers, who nearly jumped over the Suns Jason Richardson in the ‘10 NBA Western Finals or the Wizards’ Javale McGee’s failed attempt at duplicating [...]

November 22, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors LeBron was recently in England and gave a very interesting interview. One where he talks about a possible return to Cleveland. It probably would’ve been best if he didn’t speak about this. I’m going to guess that folks in Cleveland don’t want to hear this. Not yet anyway. [...]

November 22, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Yesterday, we told you about the knee injury J.R. Smith suffered in his Chinese Basketball Association debut game. Well not all NBA players had a bad experience in their CBA debut’s. Wilson Chandler had a monster debut against Tianjin in two OTs. Chandler put up a huge 43 [...]

November 22, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors No one ever accused Ricky Rubio of having a jumpshot. Then again, remember when Jason Kidd couldn’t shoot either? Yeah, neither do I. Check out these highlights from the Drew Gooden Make a Wish Foundation Charity Game. Rubio makes the highlight reel a couple times, but his full [...]

November 22, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Shaq’s addition to the TNT crew is sure to be a hit. Since the season hasn’t started yet for us to actually enjoy “Inside the NBA”, we haven’t been able to witness it yet. Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley and other Turner Sports’ NBA analysts will share their stories [...]

November 21, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors About a month ago or so, a few NBA stars were ready to participate in a global tour before talks broke down. Now it looks like they will stage a tour. Domestically, anyway. LeBron James, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony are going home — and bringing [...]