2011

January 26, 2011 – Chip Patterson Follow on Twitter – @cnpatterson3 NBA Power Rankings 1 San Antonio Spurs The Spurs are just simply outscoring and outplaying everyone in the league right now. The Spurs almost lost a big piece of their success when Tim Duncan went down against New Orleans in the first half, clutching [...]

January 26, 2011 – Kevin Burke Who are these “sources?” Where do they live? And how did they get their job? I don’t think we’ll ever get the answer to those three questions so we’ll have to just live with the fact that “sources” seem to run the NBA circuit to a degree. By now [...]

January 25, 2011 – Joshua Sexton At the halfway mark of the NBA season, all of the teams who were expected to be at the top of the standings are right where they were expected to be. In the Eastern Conference, the Celtics, Heat, Bulls and Magic occupy the top four spots. In the Western [...]

January 25, 2011 – Allen Moll With the NBA season now roughly at the midway point, we are starting to get a better glimpse of just which rookies will be players going forward. After all the college season lasts approximately 30-40 games if you consider post-season play. Right about now is when these players muscles [...]

January 24, 2011 – Allen Moll Heading into the 2010-2011 season, no one knew exactly just how good Villanova and Texas were going to be. Both were coming off of up and down seasons and after losing a pair of longtime program stalwarts like Scotty Reynolds and Damion James to graduation, there appeared to be [...]

January 21, 2011 – Joshua Sexton Blake Griffin, Rajon Rondo, and Kobe Bryant are just a few of the players who have left their mark on the first half of this season.The NBA season is already at its halfway mark, and there have plenty of memorable moments that hoops fans will be remembering for years [...]

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January 19, 2011 – Allen Moll Talk about trouble in paradise. There’s rumors swirling that Boston Celtics big man and future Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal has ended his engagement to former VH1 reality show winner Nikki “Hoopz” Alexander. Back in August The Hoop Doctors gave you some steamy pics of the “Big Shamrock’s” new [...]

January 18, 2011 – Allen Moll Now that NCAA conference play is in full swing, we can get a better gauge on the haves and have-nots in college basketball. The same goes for the college ranks’ best players as well as they now are forced to face much tougher defensive pressure and schemes designed specifically [...]

January 12, 2011 – Kevin Burke Last week we told you who will be participating in this year’s slam dunk competition. Blake Griffin is clearly the favorite and I’m still trying to understand the Brandon Jennings angle. Everyone not named Blake in this competition certainly has their work cut out for them. In fact, some are [...]