Awards

Kevin Durant is the 2nd best basketball player in the world and it is a relatively close 2nd, I don’t care what anybody says. ESPN’s “NBARank” is ridiculous for ranking him as tied for 4th with Giannis Antekounmpo. With that being said, he has received plenty of acknowledgement for his play in his two seasons [...]

As you probably know or may have guessed by now, the NBA waits to reveal their regular season award winners after the NBA Playoffs and NBA Draft with an award show after the season. While in theory this is a good idea and provides some fun drama around the awards, waiting around for over two [...]

November 30, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol Given that they both are either 7′ tall or close to it (Howard is 6’11”), Dirk Nowitzki and Dwight Howard play the game in a polar opposite fashion. Dirk Nowitzki likes to shoot from long range and mix up his game with catch and shoot plays, back to [...]

November 25, 2010 – Allen Moll In honor of everyone’s favorite day to carve up the bird, eat til we can’t move, and watch football all afternoon, a thought crossed my mind as to just which NBA players would qualify for TheHoopDoctors.com’s first ever Turkey Awards. After all, the roundball usually always takes a backseat [...]

The Hoop Doctors love Michael Jordan. That’s got to be pretty obvious to everyone by now. So in honor of Michael, and to discourage the media from pretending to be clairvoyant in the future when it comes to comparing young ballers to the greatest to ever play, every week I will be shining a little [...]