Rumors

May 13, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Every year in the post-season there is a player that you may think is fairly pedestrian, or a ‘role’ player, that has a performance game after game that tells the world, “I’ve Arrived”. That player for me this post-season has been Serge Ibaka of the Oklahoma City Thunder. [...]

May 13, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors After being eliminated by Miami just a few days ago, all signs pointed to Doc Rivers returning as Celtics coach. Well, that was just made official. Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge was making his way to a makeshift podium for his end-of-season news conference when [...]

May 13, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors After the Lakers got swept out of the playoffs by the Mavericks in the 2nd round all the LA detractors came out to take their shots at the team. But you may be surprised who is next in line to take his shot at his former team…. [...]

May 13, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors It seems almost certain that Phil Jackson will not be back in Los Angeles to coach the Lakers next season and Brian Shaw has long been rumored to be his successor. But is that still the case? The Lakers have shown increasing interest in Rick Adelman and have [...]

May 13, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The Bulls just eliminated the Hawks and will now host the Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals. The series was supposed to get underway on Monday, but the United Center was already booked by Oprah Winfrey for the final taping of her show. Therefore, the Bulls are working [...]

May 12, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Alot of players had breakout seasons this year in the the NBA. That meant that we had many All-Star snubs and also meant that selecting All-NBA teams wouldn’t be an easy task. No shock that five playoff teams boast the players on the 2010-11 All-NBA first team. League [...]

May 12, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Leading up to this season, it appeared as if this would be Doc Rivers’ last as head coach of the Boston Celtics. After being eliminated by the Heat, Doc sounds like he’ll be back next year. Doc Rivers gave the Boston Celtics their first win of the offseason. [...]

May 12, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors A few weeks ago, Blake Griffin won the Rookie of the Year award as everyone suspected. Now, he and John Wall lead the All-Rookie first team selections. T-Mobile NBA Rookie of the Year Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers and the Washington Wizards’ John Wall, the overall [...]

May 11, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Sometimes we get so emotional and caught up with what happens on the court that we often times lose sight of what’s really important. Former University of Michigan star, and former NBA player, Robert ‘Tractor’ Traylor was found dead today at the young age of only 34. Former [...]

May 11, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors One of the surprise teams of the year was the Indiana Pacers. Although they were beat in 5 games in the first round by the Bulls, they certainly didn’t make it easy for Derrick Rose and company as each game was very competitive. Team president, Larry Bird will [...]