Rumors

June 30, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Whenever the pending lockout allows, there will be some legit free agent names out there to be acquired. It’s not exactly the Summer of 2010 but there are a bunch of serviceable Centers available. We can now add Denver’s Nene to that list. Nene will opt out of [...]

June 30, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Kobe’s got game no doubt. But given the natural comparisons to Michael Jordan the GOAT, it may be best to avoid these kind of photo ops, my man: Photo Credit: Sports Illustrated [...]

June 29, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors We all know that the NBA’s current collective bargaining agreement expires tomorrow at midnight unless a deal can be met beforehand. There’s one more meeting scheduled tomorrow, in attempt to avoid that. With the clock ticking down, NBA owners and their representatives are still hoping for a last-second [...]

June 29, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors We just saw these photos of a new innovative basketball court in Munich on the Yahoo! Ball Don’t Lie basketball blog. They are super freaky to look at, and quite clearly the design of the court was developed by artists and not athletes. Seriously, between the Tim Hardaway [...]

June 29, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Every once in a while we come across some NBA apparel that leaves us scratching our heads. Something so ridiculous that it has us wondering out loud “who is buying this crap?” For today that piece of ridiculous apparel is the Dallas Mavericks Team Heads Plush Hat. Just [...]

June 29, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The Oklahoma City Thunder probably have the best young core in the entire NBA and turned the corner this past season. Expect more of the same and the team has picked up the option on a few key guys. The Oklahoma City Thunder have picked up the option [...]

June 29, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors A few days ago, news broke that Ron Artest had plans to play in Finland this season. Well, that’s news to his agent. Ron’s agent, David Bauman, is shooting down these reports and has even called it a “publicity stunt.” Amid various internet reports indicting Lakers forward Ron [...]

June 29, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors I know we normally attempt to do some moderate research when we receive questions from readers by email, but we’re coming up empty here on an email we received from a reader last night. Jarryd from Orlando asked the question: “Are Arenas and Howard bored or something in [...]

June 28, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Bismack Biyombo was taken in the lottery by the Charlotte Bobcats, but he still has ties to his Spanish team. He is looking to work out a buyout with them that would allow him to come over to the NBA right away.  Wait. Haven’t we seen this movie [...]

June 28, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors News is breaking from multiple sources this morning that Ron Artest has agreed to play in Finland in September of 2011 for a ‘few games’. This is not a joke, as shortly after Ron Artest has announced changing his name to “Metta World Peace” he’s now negotiating with [...]