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February 1, 2010 – Allen Moll In my opinion, Bill Raftery doesn’t get his due as a college basketball analyst. Known as the poor man’s Dick Vitale, Raftery, in his gruff raspy voice, provides us with some of the best one liners we have come to love like “Throw it down big fella”, “With a kiss”, [...]

January 31, 2010 – Dr. Browntorious In my mind its between Kevin Durant and Lebron James right now for the NBA MVP award. Kobe fans may have something to say about that, but personally KD and James are so far in front that no one can catch them, short of a miracle. Durant has led [...]

January 31, 2010 – R.S. De France A few months back the San Antonio Spurs found the missing element to regaining their championship swagger:  Richard Jefferson.  Fast-forward to January/February.  Jefferson is averaging 12.5 ppg, his lowest average since his rookie season.  Across the board, his numbers are bottoming out:  assists, rebounds, steals.  The Spurs are [...]

January 30, 2010 – Allen Moll Northwestern’s Kevin Coble has been the Wildcat’s unquestioned leader and top scoring option over the past two seasons, averaging 15.9 and 15.5 ppg, and is widely regarded as one of the best long distance shooters in the Big Ten Conference. Big things were expected this year out of both [...]

January 29, 2010 – Allen Moll Do you long for some great throwback NBA footage of superstars of the past featuring some of the game’s players?  Do you miss watching games in which the jump shot was an art form and not an afterthought?  Longing to see some of the NBA’s greatest grudge matches of [...]

January 29, 2010 – Allen Moll Tuesday started out as a good day in Bluegrass Country with the Kentucky Wildcats enjoying the spoils that come with being the #1 ranked team in college basketball for the first time since 2003. The entire team even got to have a conference call prior to the game with [...]

January 29, 2010 – Allen Moll Remember George Mason’s Final Four run in 2003? Every year a team or two makes it into the NCAA Tournament by going on a tremendous win streak or somehow manages to steal their conference tournament from a higher seeded team. Once in the tourney they surprise everyone by becoming a [...]

We crossed the half waypoint of the 2010 NBA season and there are some pleasant and not-so pleasant surprises. Along with the good and the bad, there have been teams that have failed preseason expectations and even more teams that have exceeded preseason expectations. Some teams are starting to play their best ball, some already [...]

January 28, 2009 – Dr. Dime There has been a ton of Lebron James/Dunk Contest talk over the last few weeks here at The Hoop Doctors. Even the *ahem* ‘haters’ realize that having Lebron James participate would have been great for the league, fans, media, and pretty much anyone involved with the sport of basketball. [...]

January 28, 2010 – R.S. De France By now, we’ve all seen the all-star starters and the dunk contest participants. To expand on Shaquille O’Neil’s comments on LeBron James’ dunk contest status, I offer this all-star revision. What Shaq suggested, getting Kobe Bryant and Vince Carter, two previous dunk contest winners, to participate in the [...]