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Those New York Knicks are at it again. No, not winning. I said “again,” thereby implying they’re plotting a free-agency coup of epic and unrealistic proportions. According to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, the Knicks are hoping Rajon Rondo will force a trade to New York before 2015. If all else fails, they’ll snag him in free [...]

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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 xmas list. We too will be visiting with family and friends, so we will be closed for business December 24th, 25th, and 26th. Of course [...]

Should the Clippers trade Blake Griffin for Carmelo Anthony? Stephen A. Smith suggests the struggling Knicks should send future free agent forward Carmelo Anthony to the Los Angeles Clippers in return for Blake Griffin, but here are 3 really good reasons you don’t pull the trigger on that trade if you are the Los Angeles [...]

Prepare yourselves for the most unconventional of NBA compliments. Following the Indiana Pacers’ 106-79 romping of the Boston Celtics, Roy Hibbert told CSNNE’s Abby Chin that Jared Sullinger could be “the Kevin Love of the East.” Quite the form of praise, wouldn’t you say? Sullinger is in his second season with the Celtics and is [...]

The Sacramento Kings don’t understand no means no. Boston Celtics general manager Danny Ainge has repeatedly said that All-Star point guard Rajon Rondo isn’t up for grabs. That the Celtics plan to build around him. That he’s their future. True story. “I want to make sure Rondo comes back healthy,” Ainge told CBS Boston in [...]

Tanking isn’t in Derrick Rose’s vocabulary. Hell, rebuilding isn’t either. But it may have to be. According to the New York Daily News‘ Mitch Lawrence, Rose wants no part of a rebuild in Chicago: Rose has told several confidantes that he is worried that the Bulls will start to let the team hit the skids [...]

This is both weird and not so weird. The Houston Rockets are known to be shopping disgruntled center Omer Asik, but according to ESPN New York 98.7 FM’s and MSG Networks’ Alan Hahn, they may also be gauging value for Jeremy Lin as well. Audio of what Hahn said can be found here while a [...]

The writing has been on the wall for some time now, that potential Hall of Fame big man Pau Gasol could be playing his final minutes in a Lakers uniform this season. It has been a glorious ride, as Gasol was rescued from basketball obscurity in Memphis back during the ’07-’08 season, making an immediate [...]

Dirk Nowitzki is starting to see a pattern. It’s a pattern you’ve probably noticed, too. A well-documented, oddball pattern—the NBA’s Eastern Conference sucks. Like, it’s really bad. Horrible. Spit-in-your-face disgusting. Players know it. Teams know it. They have to. There’s no way they can’t. Few have voiced it publicly, though. Save for the Portland Trail [...]