Rumors

November 21, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors This weekend was the Denver Nuggets gunner J.R. Smith’s Chinese Basketball Association debut. Although, by the looks of the game highlights (around :24 second mark of video) Smith may have already played in his last game in China. He seems to twist his knee on a drive to [...]

November 21, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Take your run of the mill showboating by point men, add a little silly and some flair, and you have this move right here. The pass off the forehead to Rudy Gay for the finish on the break is niiice Rondo. This play is one of the many [...]

November 21, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors With the outlook pretty bleak for the NBA players and the owners to somehow get a deal in time to salvage the season, a glimmer of hope was spotted yesterday. CBS Sports claims to have a source in the owners camp that is saying the owners are remaining [...]

November 18, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors We all know Michael Jordan is filthy rich. But to further drive the point home, check out this picture courtesy of Unathletic where MJ is getting his gamble on, using stacks of bills. Don’t try this at home kids, unless they are stacks of 1’s. As you can [...]

November 18, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors With the NBA owners and players still in an all out war, with the next battle ground looking to be the court system, owners are being extra careful to follow the rules. That even applies to New Jersey Nets minority owner and hip hop mogul Jay-Z. Having likely [...]

November 18, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The fact that any chance of having a season seems very slim means that we may see more and more big name NBA stars heading overseas to make some money this season before its too late. The agent for Kevin Durant confirmed an overseas media report Thursday that [...]

November 18, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Unfortunately, it takes sad situations such as this for us put things in perspective. And here we are agonizing over the NBA lockout. Our thoughts are with the victims’ families. Oklahoma State women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant Miranda Serna have died in a plane crash along [...]

November 17, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors I’m not an owner of a club but I’d like to think that allowing Shaq in, regardless of if his attire adheres to your code, so that he can tweet about where he is does more for business than sticking to your guns and not allowing him in. [...]

November 17, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Big ups to the Windy Citizen for this image of a letter Duke Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski wrote in 1980 to Michael Jordan after trying to recruit him to play for Duke. [...]

November 17, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Remember a few years ago when the Knicks traded for Cuttino Mobley (as part of Donnie Walsh’s plan to make room for LeBron), but he never ended playing a game for the Knicks, before retiring amid the new discovery of a rare heart condition he had? Well, Mobley [...]