Rumors

September 13, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The Kurt Rambis experiment in Minnesota mercifully came to and end. Now, let’s usher in the Rick Adelman regime. The Minnesota Timberwolves have announced that they are hiring Rick Adelman as their next coach. News of Adelman’s deal first came out Monday, and the Timberwolves made the official [...]

September 13, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Why would anyone want to eat an orange peel? It’s so bitter and gross. Well Ron Artest has always been known for doing things his own way. Even when it comes to eating his fruits I guess. Check out this Dancing with the Stars promo video of Artest [...]

September 12, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The rules during the lockout are simple. If you’re affiliated with an NBA team, you pretty much can’t say….anything pertaining to the league. It’s difficult to toe that line as MJ just found out. The NBA fined Michael Jordan $100,000 for public comments he made last month about [...]

September 12, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors When Matt Barnes tweeted this message and accompanying picture of his new tattoo I don’t think he was referring to Kobe Bryant as the ‘snakes’ (Black Mamba). Since they are now on the same team, he must be referring to the competition, or possibly the owners during the [...]

September 12, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Despite shooting down any glimmer of hope last week, apparently Derek Fisher knows more than he’s letting on. On the heels of Roger Mason’s now-infamous tweet in which the NBPA vice president wrote, “Looking like a season. How u,” but later claimed his account was hacked, one league [...]

September 10, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Well I guess all those receding hairline jokes from fans on Twitter cut a little deeper with Lebron than he let on. He decided this week to shave the melon and take it all the way down, Jordan style: What do you think, does the shaved look suit [...]

September 9, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Despite the two sides meeting twice this week, and another larger meeting scheduled for next week, Derek Fisher wants us all to relax even though optimism rose slightly the past few days. When it comes to trying to figure out where NBA owners and players are in negotiations for [...]

September 9, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Even though it appears as if the NBA labor negotiations are looking optimistic, Williams still must report to Turkey. Remember, he has an NBA out-clause. New Jersey Nets point guard Deron Williams has arrived in Istanbul to start his stint with Turkish basketball team Besiktas.The Istanbul-based club said [...]

September 9, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The Nuggets just lost Wilson Chandler a few weeks ago to China. Is J.R. Smith next? Denver Nuggets free-agent guard J.R. Smith is nearing an agreement on the richest contract in China Basketball Association history, sources told Yahoo! Sports. Under terms of the deal, Smith would make more [...]

September 8, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors We know most hoop fans are waiting for 2K12 to drop but apparently the lockout has impacted the game… Unlike the NFL Lockout, where EA Sports had rights to rookies for Madden NFL 12 regardless of whether there would be a season or not, the NBA lockout will [...]