Rumors

October 13, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Immediately following the Dallas Mavericks championship victory over the Miami Heat this past spring Mark Cuban was high on victory and talking crazy. He told the media he wasn’t going to get the team rings and instead would be buying them something more ‘modern’. Well that didn’t sit [...]

October 13, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Lebron James has been teasing us about possibly playing in the NFL during the lockout. He has been chatting it up with NFL personnel on Twitter about tryout deadlines and his potential position. Some, like Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll are so intrigued that he has created a custom [...]

October 12, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors If the lockout drags on, would players actually leave the NBA all together to form another league? If the NBA lockout forces the cancellation of the 2011-12 season, New York Knicks  forward Amare Stoudemire says players will give “serious” consideration to starting their own league. According to Stoudemire, [...]

October 12, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors And some people think Barkley is a self-centered loud mouth. The nerve of them… TNT analyst Charles Barkley said Tuesday he would feel uncomfortable drawing a paycheck during the NBA lockout, so he’s considering donating his salary to charity. “I haven’t told anybody, but I’m actually — believe [...]

October 11, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Since the season won’t start on time, these exhibitions might as well continue on. Nothing is set in stone, but Anthony believes he, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul and friends will stage a big exhibition in the Big Apple. “We’re going to keep giving back,” Anthony said. [...]

October 11, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors After the record-breaking season the NBA enjoyed last year, it now seems like a distant memory. After roughly 13 hours of negotiations over two days failed to close what he termed a significant gulf “on virtually all issues,” NBA commissioner David Stern cancelled the first two weeks of [...]

October 11, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Kenyon Martin sounded off on twitter this week about his haters and hoping they all get AIDS. Seems a bit harsh, right? I don’t purport to know the context of whatever situation led to K-Mart feeling he should put this tweet on the world wide web, but I’m [...]

October 10, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The players and owners met last night in New York for roughly 5 hours, and there wasn’t much progress…as usual. Now, it they don’t get anything done today, the first two weeks of the regular season are gone. NBA players and owners still have no deal headed into [...]

October 7, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Brixton, England is celebrating the accomplishments of the Sudan-born and Great Britain-raised Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng by putting his face on a five pound note (photo after the jump), something called “complementary currency.” Think of it as when soda companies put a picture of Santa Claus on [...]

October 7, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Looks like Marcus Camby has caught a break from his previous arrest resulting from marijuana possession… Prosecutors have dropped a marijuana possession charge against NBA veteran Marcus Camby after his arrest during a traffic stop in suburban Houston. Camby was arrested last month after police in Pearland said [...]