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February 29, 2012 – Allen Moll Michael Jordan had the virtually perfect NBA playing career. Widely considered the ‘Greatest of All-time’, he hasn’t had such a smooth ride as an NBA executive and team owner. His Charlotte Bobcats are struggling big time this season. Again. Check out the classic facial expression of frustration on Jordan’s [...]

February 29, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors During the lockout, Delonte West found himself a job at a furniture store and kept us all updated via his twitter account. Now we are finding out that he had to sleep in his car at the beginning of the season. Sounds like another case of a player [...]

February 28, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors There’s an overwhelming number of NBA fans who feel as if Shaq has hurt TNT’s “Inside the NBA.” Once beloved for his never-hold-my-tongue approach, that seems to be turning people off. And we’re willing to bet talking smack about Nash isn’t going to help his case. For the [...]

February 28, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Given the fact that Kobe Bryant just set the record for most points scored in combined NBA All-Star Games, we thought it interesting to look back where it all started. Back in 1998, a 19-year-old Kobe Bryant burst onto the scene and dazzled in his all-star debut at [...]

February 28, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors You might have seen Gatorade’s new television ad featuring former NBA Coach Phil Jackson and Michael Jordan during All-Star Game weekend. In the ad, Coach Jackson recounts how proper fueling propelled Jordan’s performance in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals, also known as the “Flu Game,” and [...]

February 27, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors We can’t think of any event in the history of the NBA that shocked fans, players, and executives like Earvin “Magic” Johnson’s announcement that he had contracted HIV. The events that surrounded the announcement, his retirement/s, his comebacks, the final all-star performance, his work with the Lakers and [...]

February 27, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors There is no denying that the NBA Slam Dunk Contest 2012 was a flop. Full of gimmicks and ‘tricks’ it was more about the show and less about the substance. But that couldn’t be said about the amateur dunk contest at all-star weekend. There were some amazing dunks [...]

February 27, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors This footage is clearly not recent as Kobe is wearing a Drew League jersey from a summer league game, but it was just posted recently by the fellas at JerseyChaser.com. Given we just featured an infographic comparing Kobe to MJ in the scoring department, we thought this video [...]

February 27, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors For those of you who were annoyed as we were with the no-name participants and the gimmicky dunks that were painful to watch….this should help remind you of days past when the dunk contest meant something: [...]

February 27, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors And all this time you thought guys didn’t give it their all in the all-star games. After staging a dunk contest in the first half, the intensity picked up significantly in the second half. To the point where Dwyane Wade fouled Kobe so hard that he broke his [...]