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The New York Knicks are prioritizing cap space over winning and just about everything else. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Team president Phil Jackson dealt Iman Shumpert and J.R. Smith to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday as part of a three-team trade that also included the Oklahoma City Thunder. The latter will [...]

Playing through what is, as of now, the worst season in franchise history has left the New York Knicks searching for answers. On the heels of their Sunday loss to the Milwaukee Bucks—the team’s 11th in a row—the Knicks now sit at 5-31, with the most losses in the NBA. And just about everyone, from [...]

Hello again. After a brief holiday respite, during which a crap ton of NBA-related things happened, The Hoop Doctors’ power rankings are back. We know it’s been tough, slogging through these last two weeks without the ability to incessantly check and read and cherish and tell your friends about updated power rankings. But the wait [...]

Can’t believe we’re talking about this, but here it goes. As (probably baseless) rumors circulate about LeBron James’ future with the Cleveland Cavaliers, there has been limited uproar about some words he possibly shared with Dwyane Wade on Christmas Day. Below is a the video that started everything. Start watching around two and a half [...]

Ever since the explosion of ‘Linsanity’ back in 2012 with the New York Knicks—Jeremy Lin hasn’t been able to live up to that kind of performance. After his short stint with the Houston Rockets and currently this season with the Los Angeles Lakers, he’s still trying to recreate the magic he had in the Garden. [...]

LeBron James needs a new diplomatic answer coach. Rumors have started running rampant in the wake of the Cavaliers’ 18-12 start. They have the fifth-best record in the Eastern Conference, a bottom-10 defense, a top-five offense, missing bodies and a whole lot of questions. Critics are naturally starting to point fingers at rookie head coach [...]

The New York Knicks aren’t ready to give up on their 2014-15 season. Which is weird. At 5-28, the Knicks are off to their worst start in franchise history. They have the most losses of any NBA team, and they look like a patented shit show. Mathematically, at 9.5 games back of eighth place, they’re [...]

Breaking: The Brooklyn Nets are still odd. Stuck in the throes of a season that has them contending for eighth place in the Eastern Conference, the Nets find themselves in a tough situation, footing an extravagant salary and luxury-tax bill for a mediocre product. Their next move, then, is obvious: Blow stuff up. Shop Deron [...]

The Hoop Doctors want to wish you all a very safe and happy holiday season. Here’s hoping you were all good boys and girls so Santa will wipe out that christmas list. We too will be visiting with family and friends, so we will be closed for business December 23-26, 2014. Of course if we [...]

Sure. Mike Malone is no longer the coach of the Sacramento Kings for stylistic reasons, mainly the fact that ownership and management want the team to run fast. So, naturally, in the post-Malone era, that’s led them to targeting a trade for the Brooklyn Nets’ Deron Williams, a former All-Star with paper ankles and spongy [...]