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Bucks fans woke up to some very disheartening news this morning as the first real big injury for the 2016-17 season has already taken place. Bucks highly underrated small forward Khris Middleton will be out for 6 months with a torn hamstring. [tweet https://twitter.com/espn/status/778751800086233088] Middleton led the Bucks in points (18.2), minutes (36.1) and steals [...]

Similar to last season, J.R. Smith is looking for an NBA deal well into the Summer. At the conclusion of the 2014-14 season, he opted out of the deal with the Cavs; a move that ultimately cost him about $5 million. He opted out during the 2016 playoffs with the Cavs again, but that was [...]

The Bucks went a long way toward securing a vital member of their burgeoning core Monday morning as they agreed to a four-year, $100 million extension with budding superstar jack of all trades Giannis Antetokounmpo. [tweet https://twitter.com/basketballtalk/status/777950669504258048] This deal is genius and a massive, repeat massive, coo for the Milwaukee Bucks organization as they not [...]

If there were a an “All-Whatever-Happened-To…?” squad, Darius Miles would probably be a first-teamer. His exit from the NBA was a swift and quiet as his actual playing career. Drafted 3rd overall by the Clippers right out of high school in the 2000 draft, Miles joined a team that had Quentin Richardson, Lamar Odom and [...]

Don’t be fooled by Dirk Nowitzki’s two-year, $50 million deal with the Dallas Mavericks. He may not have that much basketball left in him. From Stephen Hunt of Today’s Fastbreak: “I always said I wanted to kind of take it year-by-year. Signing a two-year deal doesn’t mean I necessarily have to play those two years. [...]

After a very long and frustrating off-season for mercurial and brash New York product Lance Stephenson, the long wait is finally over as Stephenson has signed a one-year deal to join the New Orleans Pelicans. [tweet https://twitter.com/TodaysFastbreak/status/776075036981592064] Lance had to feel like the one rookie who would be left in the green room for hours [...]

Sound the Chris Bosh update alarm. A source told the Miami Herald‘s Barry Jackson that there’s a strong chance Bosh gets cleared for an imminent return to the Miami Heat: There is growing optimism about Chris Bosh being cleared by the Heat to resume his career while remaining on blood thinners, according to a union [...]

North Carolina High School Senior Leah Church has had a pretty incredible couple of weeks. First she fulfilled her life long dream by committing to play Division 1 College Basketball next year with the NC State Wolfpack, then she broke the World Record for made three pointers in a minute by hitting an incredible 32 [...]

Now that the Olympics are over and we return to the early days of fall for the association with little to keep NBA fans occupied until October, I thought it was time for The Hoop Doctors annual Top 25 Under 25 NBA rankings. There are many things taken into consideration for these Under 25 NBA [...]