Rumors

October 19, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Michael Jordan, the GOAT, has had more than his fair share of TV time over the years. But that said I made it my business growing up to watch every last second of Jordan interviews and appearances. Then I stumbled across this video yesterday, and I can’t recall [...]

October 18, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Owning part of a professional sports team has almost become a prerequisite to being a celebrity nowadays. Jennifer Lopez, Jay-Z, Nelly and Usher come to mind. Let’s add Will and Jada Smith to that list. Now, we’re not a gossip site or anything, but wasn’t it rumored that [...]

October 18, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors One of the biggest road blocks in the negotiations is the split between basketball-related income. Naturally, each side wants more but are the players ready to lower their previous demands to save the season? Does this point about max salaries bear out in the math? A 15 percent [...]

October 18, 2011 – Dane Carbaugh Image via Ben Golliver at CBS Sports here. Classy, don’t you think? Let us play! Good one, Derek. [...]

October 17, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The lockout has to eventually end…whenever that may be. And when it does, some guys will have some tough decisions to make, such as Dwight Howard who will be a free agent next summer. Many think he’ll leave, and he didn’t exactly do a good job of hiding [...]

October 17, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The man that we know as “the logo” has opened up and revealed that he has been living with depression his entire life. Jerry West says he has battled depression since childhood, when his father would beat the future Hall of Famer, causing low self-esteem that has plagued [...]

October 14, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The silver lining for Spurs fans is that it’s not like the NBA season is starting in a few weeks or anything. Manu Ginobili is hobbling around his Argentinian home after suffering a slightly sprained right ankle earlier this week. The Argentinian paper La Nueva Provencia reports today [...]

October 14, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors So, the first two weeks of the regular season are gone. Now each side has agreed to meet with a mediator separately and as a part of a larger group. This is the same mediator that helped with the NFL’s lockout. But why wasn’t this done sooner? The [...]

October 14, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Rajon Rondo and Kenneth Faried are touring in Kentucky with the Big Blue All-Stars and challenging college and pro teams who want a piece of the action. Well this week Rondo pulled off probably one of the sickest alley-oop passes of his career. Hell anyone’s career. No eyes….no [...]

October 14, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The collective bargaining agreement between NBA players and owners expired on July 1, 2011, initiating a lockout. Players currently receive 57% of basketball-related income. Owners are lobbying for a more even split. Owners claim most teams in the league are bleeding money, saying they lost a combined $300 [...]