Rumors

October 17, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The lockout has to eventually end…whenever that may be. And when it does, some guys will have some tough decisions to make, such as Dwight Howard who will be a free agent next summer. Many think he’ll leave, and he didn’t exactly do a good job of hiding [...]

October 17, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The man that we know as “the logo” has opened up and revealed that he has been living with depression his entire life. Jerry West says he has battled depression since childhood, when his father would beat the future Hall of Famer, causing low self-esteem that has plagued [...]

October 14, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The silver lining for Spurs fans is that it’s not like the NBA season is starting in a few weeks or anything. Manu Ginobili is hobbling around his Argentinian home after suffering a slightly sprained right ankle earlier this week. The Argentinian paper La Nueva Provencia reports today [...]

October 14, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors So, the first two weeks of the regular season are gone. Now each side has agreed to meet with a mediator separately and as a part of a larger group. This is the same mediator that helped with the NFL’s lockout. But why wasn’t this done sooner? The [...]

October 14, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Rajon Rondo and Kenneth Faried are touring in Kentucky with the Big Blue All-Stars and challenging college and pro teams who want a piece of the action. Well this week Rondo pulled off probably one of the sickest alley-oop passes of his career. Hell anyone’s career. No eyes….no [...]

October 14, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The collective bargaining agreement between NBA players and owners expired on July 1, 2011, initiating a lockout. Players currently receive 57% of basketball-related income. Owners are lobbying for a more even split. Owners claim most teams in the league are bleeding money, saying they lost a combined $300 [...]

October 13, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Immediately following the Dallas Mavericks championship victory over the Miami Heat this past spring Mark Cuban was high on victory and talking crazy. He told the media he wasn’t going to get the team rings and instead would be buying them something more ‘modern’. Well that didn’t sit [...]

October 13, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Lebron James has been teasing us about possibly playing in the NFL during the lockout. He has been chatting it up with NFL personnel on Twitter about tryout deadlines and his potential position. Some, like Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll are so intrigued that he has created a custom [...]

October 12, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors If the lockout drags on, would players actually leave the NBA all together to form another league? If the NBA lockout forces the cancellation of the 2011-12 season, New York Knicks  forward Amare Stoudemire says players will give “serious” consideration to starting their own league. According to Stoudemire, [...]

October 12, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors And some people think Barkley is a self-centered loud mouth. The nerve of them… TNT analyst Charles Barkley said Tuesday he would feel uncomfortable drawing a paycheck during the NBA lockout, so he’s considering donating his salary to charity. “I haven’t told anybody, but I’m actually — believe [...]