Rumors

March 9, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Even though Derrick Rose is young, the reigning MVP and playing for his hometown team, he’s stunning very humble. It’s almost hard to believe. He’s so humble that he doesn’t want any trade rumors surfacing around his team. Before facing Orlando, Rose said he’s had enough of answering [...]

March 8, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Heading in, the Derrick Rose vs. Brandon Jennings PG matchup looked like it was going to be a good one. But Rose got the last laugh: [...]

March 8, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors It’s been a while since Minnesota had an NBA basketball team to be excited about. And there was probably never a more exciting time in TWolves history than the early days of Kevin Garnett and NY point guard prodigy Stephon Marbury. In October 1997 Slam Magazine published Ish [...]

March 8, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Thank God the Wizards beat the Lakers tonight and didn’t lose by 2 points or something. Why? Because Nick Young would have been beating himself up even more for this huge fail on the fast break. A wide open fast break mind you. Clearly the ball slipped out [...]

March 7, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors The All-Star Weekend is great from a fan perspective, but I’m sure it’s taxing on the players. Can you just imagine all of the media that they have to do? It’s non-stop. Apparently, it’s too much for a few… “The NBA fined the Los Angeles Lakers guard [Kobe [...]

March 7, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors No that title isn’t a misprint. Eddy Curry and ‘alley-oop’ can still go in the same sentence without the earth blowing up. Remember when Curry showed up for camp with the Heat this year about half his normal size? Well apparently losing all that weight has enabled him [...]

March 7, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Several months ago, we told you that Australian-born Kyrie Irving was thinking about playing for his native land during the Olympics. Not the case anymore… “Kyrie Irving said Monday night he will not play for Australia in the Olympics this summer, but will stay with Team USA in [...]

March 7, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors The only thing worse than a terrible team is when the home crowd boos a terrible team. That’s a tough situation. That’s what’s happening in D.C. these days. More particularly, with Andray Blatche and he says it’s impacting his performance. Blatche admitted that the booing really affects him [...]

March 5, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors There has been something of a running joke that when players go to the Clippers, their careers are over. Of course, that’s no longer the case since they’re legit. But former Clipper, Baron Davis somewhat proves the theory correct by saying he stopped liking basketball in L.A. ‘I [...]

March 5, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors The Nets took a huge risk by acquiring Deron Williams at the dealine last year because there’s no guarantee he will want to remain with the team beyond this season. The Nets have failed miserably at trying to build around him in an attempt to convince him to [...]