Rumors

October 7, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Don’t try to get over on Bill Russell. Apparently, he was more than just a very smart basketball player. William “Bill” Russell, the former National Basketball Association star center for the Boston Celtics, accused the National Collegiate Athletic Association in an antitrust complaint of selling videos using his [...]

October 7, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The former 3rd overall NBA draft pick, turned NBA bust, turned two-time NBA champion (from the pine), signed an NBA contract a couple of weeks ago to play for the Serbian team Red Star Belgrade. Well apparently the fans love him, and he’s trying to get his groove [...]

October 7, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors We know this infographic is about all College Sports and not just hoops, but we figured with the NCAA Basketball season staring us all in the face and no NBA action in sight, you might find it entertaining: Created by: Online Masters Degree [...]

October 6, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Let’s add J.R. Rider to the ever growing list of current and former NBA players who have gotten in trouble this off season… Former NBA 1st round draft pick Isaiah “J.R.” Rider was arrested in Arizona this week for violating his probation … TMZ has learned. Rider — who [...]

October 6, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors It’s not exactly the $3M for 10 games that Kobe might play for in Italy, but to each’s own. Tony Parker will play with a French team during the NBA lockout, earning a mere $1,995 per month despite his star power on and off the basketball court. ASVEL, [...]

October 6, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Last night the retired Shaquille O’Neal appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and as always was entertaining and charismatic… [...]

October 5, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Yesterday was a critical meeting in labor negotiations. Surprise, surprise…there was no progress. Therefore the rest of the preseason was called off and if there is no deal by Monday, the first two weeks of the regular season are gone. However, there doesn’t rule out a full 82-game [...]

October 5, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors NBA players (especially internationally born) are fleeing the country to play for big contracts in international leagues at an alarming rate due to the NBA lockout. Andrei Kirilenko is no exception and announced yesterday that he has signed to return to Russia to play out a three year [...]

October 5, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Magic Johnson could heat it up on the hardwood, but when we saw this image, we realized he could also really get it cookin’…. [...]

October 4, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors This isn’t the first time Derek Fisher has written a letter to the players during the lockout and probably won’t be the last. The agents made some claims regarding what’s going on in the labor situation, to which Fisher disagreed with. So, he decided to clear any confusion. [...]