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March 22, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors With the Miami Heat stringing wins together fairly effortlessly these days. Maybe a bit too effortlessly for their own good, they have their sights set on winning the CHIP. The Heat made a strong move yesterday to solidify their front court for the playoffs by signing Ronny Turiaf [...]

March 22, 2012 – Allen Moll Back in early December, Indiana Coach Tom Crean witnessed arguably his greatest moment as the head man in Bloomington when junior forward Christian Watford calmly sank a game-winning 3 point shot at the buzzer to defeat top ranked Kentucky. Three months later, the two legendary collegiate programs have a [...]

March 21, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Shannon Brown nails a three, triggering a full timeout from the bench. Down ten with seven minutes and change left, Los Suns had El Heat — for what it’s worth, these are basically the Taco Bell versions of translating — on the ropes on their home floor. As this [...]

March 21, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors You knew that sooner or later, the endorsement deals would flow in for Jeremy Lin. While “Linsanity” isn’t as powerful as it was a month ago, he’s still a big international draw and should be for a while. Just ask Volvo who just signed him to a two [...]

March 21, 2012 – Dan Favale The Heat continue to win—14 straight at home, in fact—but lately, it has been far from pretty. Leading up to the NBA All-Star Game, Miami was exuding a level of dominance that many didn’t even know their big three led squad was capable of. Double-digit margins of victory became [...]

March 21, 2012 – Allen Moll We see it every year when it comes to NCAA players declaring early for the NBA Draft despite just mediocre success at the collegiate level. It’s a recipe for disaster, and usually winds up with the player either going un-drafted or being taken in the 2nd Round with a [...]

March 21, 2012 – Allen Moll The Indiana Hoosiers under Coach Tom Crean have undergone quite the transformation from Big Ten cellar dwellers, following the Bob Knight era, to NCAA Tourney Sweet 16 participants this season. A big part of Crean’s success has been recruiting. Two seasons ago, he brought in super 6th man Will [...]

March 20, 2012 – Griffin Gotta There were periods during last night’s Denver Nuggets game that the five players on the court were water-bug point man Ty Lawson, defensive swing Arron Afflalo, newly back-in-town Wilson Chandler, [...]

March 20, 2012 – Dan Favale Kevin Love has helped return the Timberwolves to competency. Kevin Durant and LeBron James continue to dominate the stat lines. And Chris Paul has never been more valuable. But what about Steve Nash? It’s easy to get caught up in the hype surrounding superstars in their prime, who play [...]

March 20, 2012 – Allen Moll We’ll start with a given that everyone knows that underage gambling is illegal. Or even that unsanctioned gambling is illegal. But during this time of year, virtually everyone and their mother fills out an NCAA Tournament bracket, in hopes of taking home some late March cash in their office [...]