Blogs

Welcome to the NBA’s real season. The Association’s hectic playoff schedule is all set to tipoff on Saturday, so we at The Hoop Doctors bring you our all-purpose predictions. These are for everyone. Diehard fans. Casual fans. Loyal readers. People who accidentally stumbled upon this page. If there’s a sports bettor in you, well, you’re [...]

Jordan Clarkson has no plans to leave the Los Angeles Lakers this summer. As he said at exit interviews, per Mark Medina of the Los Angeles Daily News: [tweet https://twitter.com/MarkG_Medina/status/720727645856473088] It’s good that Clarkson wants to remain in Hollywood, but it’s not necessarily his decision. He will be a restricted free agent, and while he [...]

The Houston Rockets’ lackluster followup to last year’s Western Conference Finals appearance will not cost general manager Daryl Morey his job. Owner Leslie Alexander has made that much clear as the team prepares to square off with the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the playoffs, per Mark Berman of Fox 26 in [...]

Byron Scott’s spot with the Los Angeles Lakers may be more secure than we initially thought. It’s been assumed for the longest time that the organization would can Scott once Kobe Bryant’s farewell tour ended. He hasn’t seemed to connect especially well with the kiddies, and the Lakers need to usher in a new era [...]

Everything around Kobe’s final game was pricey. Anyone even remotely associated with him or the team, in just about any capacity, had the opportunity to cash in. Tickets to the game were outrageous and ad prices probably spiked as well. During the game, Staples Center sold a whopping $1.2 million-worth of Kobe Bryant merchandise. That’s [...]

And the Jimmy Butler rumor mill train rolls on. Chicago Bulls general manager Gar Forman held an impromptu presser following the team’s win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday, during which he was asked to address the future of presumed franchise cornerstone Jimmy Butler. His answer, per K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune, left room [...]

If you’re a Timberwolves fan, you have to be excited about the team’s future. You have to believe that next year will be the year this core breaks through and makes a legitimate run at the playoffs. If not, they aren’t far from it. Given all the franchise has gone through lately, namely with the [...]

Immediately following the Washington Wizards’ season-ending victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night, head coach Randy Wittman was shown the door. Jorge Castillo of The Washington Post was the first with the news: [tweet https://twitter.com/jorgeccastillo/status/720450672869699584] Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical then followed up the report with some specific insight into the Wizards coaching search, [...]

Now that the NBA regular season is over, the New York Knicks can resume their rumor-mill prominence. What’s that, you say? Oh, they never left the rumor mill? Like not even for a millisecond? Okay then. Well, on that note, they won’t be leaving it anytime soon, either. The Knicks are now left to hire [...]

The 2015-16 regular season is over for the Golden State Warriors, and they couldn’t be happier. On Wednesday night, with a decisive win over the shorthanded Memphis Grizzlies, the Warriors secured their 73rd victory of the year, breaking the NBA’s previous record of 72 wins. It’s been a wild ride for the reigning champions, who [...]