Rumors

September 3, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol KNICKS management why do you keep torturing us like this…. Rudy Fernandez continues to lobby for a trade to New York, but the Knicks either can’t or won’t make a trade for the Portland shooting guard. According to a team source, Knicks president Donnie Walsh recently rejected a [...]

September 2, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol Etan Thomas is still in the league? Just kiddin’ big fella, we hope you bring some toughness to the Hawks front line. Be a banger, son…. The Atlanta Hawks have signed free agent center Etan Thomas to add bulk in the frontcourt. The 6-foot-10 Thomas spent most of [...]

September 2, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol Maybe after these Kobe comments the bromance between Kobe Bryant and Lebron James will come to a close? Fisher was sharp with some follow-up questions and got Bryant to talk about how he, personally, would not have done what LeBron James did in leaving Cleveland. Some have observed [...]

September 2, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol Looks like Carmelo Anthony won’t be going anywhere, well at least for this season anyways… They’ve already had one press conference in Denver this week, but that will almost certainly be the only one. The Nuggets and new vice president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri, just introduced Tuesday [...]

September 1, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol Looks like the political uneasiness between the two countries had no ill effects on the players attitudes on the court. If anything the quotes from the Iranian team make it obvious they were happy to be playing against some of the best players in the world, regardless of [...]

September 1, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol The Boston Herald has reported that the Boston Celtics and Delonte West have agreed to terms for a non-guaranteed contract to bring the high energy guard back to beantown for the 2010-11 NBA season. The Hoop Docs have a lot of respect for West but we are curious [...]

September 1, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol This seems more than a little odd considering the C’s already have Rondo and Nate, but then again Delonte can play the 2 if necessary in a small but fiery backcourt off the bench: …that former Celtic Delonte West, who was recently waived by the Minnesota Timberwolves, was [...]

September 1, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol The Bucks and the 7-foot center are hoping they can put his gruesome injury behind them, although it’s unclear how long it will take for Bogut to return to full strength. He is expected to return to Milwaukee on Tuesday and will be re-evaluated as the Bucks players [...]

August 31, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol “Now that the Denver Nuggets have their management team in place, they’re developing a strategy to keep All-Star Carmelo Anthony(notes) in powder blue and gold. At his introductory news conference Tuesday, Masai Ujiri, the team’s new vice president of basketball operations, said he’s been in contact with Anthony [...]

August 31, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol Artest seemingly took issue with Celtics coach Doc Rivers‘ contention that the Celtics have never had the opportunity to defend the 2007-08 title with the same core group at full health, noting that the Lakers have been without Andrew Bynum in their title runs. “Boston lost to lakers [...]