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October 6, 2010 – Allen Moll While all of us were giggling when former Wake Forest stand-out Al Farouq-Aminu walked up the stage during the 2010 NBA Draft to meet NBA Commissioner David Stern wearing those ridiculous Steve Erkel glasses, Aminu is laughing all the way to the bank, since he reportedly has signed an [...]

October 4, 2010 – Allen Moll Now that the Summer off-season for college basketball is just about over and freshman recruits are arriving on campus, it’s about that time to start to get into NCAA basketball. Just like every year, the 2010-2011 season is filled with more questions than answers. Will the return of Kyle [...]

September 30, 2010 – Kevin Burke In case you couldn’t tell, we here at The Hoop Doctors love all things basketball. But it’s also good to see when people go on to further heights when their playing days are over. NBA great, Hall of Famer and former US Presidential candidate, Senator Bill Bradley, fits this [...]

September 30, 2010 – Allen Moll While the usual game-plan for top tier nationally ranked high school hoops recruits is to chose a college destination prior to their senior seasons in high school, this year is different, with a number of Top 100 ranked recruits taking their time in committing to a school. The usual [...]

September 29, 2010 – The Hoop Doctors Tyreke Evans, the NBA’s reigning ‘Rookie of the Year’ and star point guard for the Sacramento Kings, took some time away from his training to chat with The Hoop Doctors Kevin Burke at an EA Sports event in NYC this past weekend. We didn’t get a lot of [...]

September 27, 2010 – The Hoop Doctors Dominique Wilkins, aka ‘The Human Highlight Reel’ was kind enough to take a few minutes out of his busy schedule to chat with The Hoop Doctors Kevin Burke at an EA Sports event in NYC this weekend. Of course we had to hit him up on his thoughts [...]

September 24, 2010 – Allen Moll There are only a select few NCAA men’s basketball coaches that are synonymous with winning at the schools they coach at. In other words, these coaches have almost single-handedly put their program on the map. You have Jim Boeheim at Syracuse, Jim Calhoun at Connecticut, and the legendary Bob [...]

September 22, 2010 – Allen Moll Sixteen years after his dad, then affectionately known as Glenn “Big Dog” Robinson finished up a National Player of the Year campaign at Purdue, then went on to become the #1 overall draft pick in the NBA, Glen Robinson III gave a verbal commitment to play his college ball at the [...]

September 20, 2010 – Allen Moll The recruitment of Austin Rivers, currently the newly #1 rated prospect in the 2011 HS Recruiting Class by Rivals, has been a bit confusing. After initially giving a verbal commit to play for Billy Donovan at the University of Florida early in his HS career, Rivers has officially re-opened [...]

September 16, 2010 – Allen Moll Before sustaining an unfortunate and untimely knee injury playing football last September, Tony Wroten Jr. was well on his way to becoming the #1 rated point guard prospect in the stacked 2011 HS Class. That’s saying a lot, considering the class is loaded with a plethora of game-changing pont [...]