Rumors

August 18, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors With all of the basketball being played this summer, it’s almost surprising that more guys haven’t gotten hurt. Injury-riddled Knicks center Ronny Turiaf suffered a broken finger in his left hand and is expected to be out for about 4 to 6 weeks, which could cause him to [...]

August 17, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Don’t worry Nuggets fans. He has an NBA opt-out clause in his contract… Ty Lawson will join Zalgiris Kaunas of Lithuania, signing a deal that will allow the Denver Nuggets point guard to return to the NBA if the lockout ends. Paulius Motiejunas, the general director of Zalgiris [...]

August 17, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Over the weekend, OKC big man Kendrick Perkins was arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct. Not only is Perkins maintaining his innocence in the matter, but he and his attorney are considering pursuing a police brutality claim against the arresting officers. The attorney for NBA star Kendrick Perkins [...]

August 17, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors On Saturday, a host of NBA players will face off in an all-star game of sorts, known as Capital Punishment. Michael Beasley was slated to play, but had to withdraw. Now, perhaps Kobe will participate… Sources say that Bryant has yet to decide whether or not he wants [...]

August 16, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors What has gotten lost in the frenzy of NBA players either signing overseas or thinking about it, is that some of them have NBA out-clauses. Meaning, they can return to the NBA as soon as the lockout is settled, however, some players do not have this clause and [...]

August 16, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors We can only imagine how annoying it must be to be a prisoner of your own fame. Tough to do anything without a million cameras in your face. Apparently, this was the situation with Kobe Bryant at church…or so he thought. Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant is [...]

August 16, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Okay so maybe he didn’t go up and over LeBron James, but after the nice steal from LBJ this unknown baller from Taiwan avoids Lebrons block attempt for the nice throwdown. He then hits a three right in James’ eye shortly after: [...]

August 16, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors These days we’re getting quite a few laughs from LA Clippers star Blake Griffin’s twitter feed. None more hilarious than this tweet last night regarding his car, a squirrel, and Casey Anthony: [...]

August 15, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The notion that marquee players would never play overseas is long gone. Durant is mulling it over, but has set a timetable for himself… Durant said that after speaking with Stephen Jackson and a few other players last week, he has decided to set a deadline of Oct. [...]

August 15, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Gary Forbes of the Denver Nuggets scored 78 points including 13 three-pointers at the Greater Hartford Pro-Am on Friday night. I think this is a GHPA scoring record. Here’s the video proof: [...]