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Given that Kyrie Irving made his early return yesterday from a shoulder injury in spectacular fashion with 31 points in the losing cause, we felt Irving deserved some love on THD Video. This week we focus on Irving’s Top 10 Plays of the 2012-13 season thus far. Yesterday’s madness excluded… [...]

Andrew Bynum doesn’t have a soft spot for the Philadelphia 76ers. After the Sixers took a chance on Bynum, believing him to be everything the Los Angeles Lakers didn’t, they got burned. He won’t play at all this season, essentially meaning Philly traded Andre Iguodala and Nikola Vucevic for nothing. Still, the Sixers—with the exception [...]

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In our initial Mock Draft, the Top 10 picks were dominated by big men like Cody Zeller, Nerlens Noel, and Mason Plumlee.  But since then several other position players have played their way to the top of most draftboards like freshmen Ben McLemore and Anthony Bennett as well as junior swingman Victor Oladipo from Indiana. [...]

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While things haven’t gone quite as expected in Philadelphia this season, when we all thought that Andrew Bynum would help make the Sixers relavent once again, even possibly a Top 4 team in the East, one thing you can always count on is a sell-out crowd when Allen Iverson makes an appearance in Philly. Even [...]

It’s been a tough and trying year for future NBA 1st ballot Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant as he has gone through his share of Dwight Howard drama, continuous coaching changes, and injuries to not only himself, but teammates Pau Gasol, Howard, and Steve Nash. Last night, playing on essentially one leg, Bryant came within [...]

Even though adidas has deep roster of top-level NBA guards they endorse like Ricky Rubio and Damian Lillard, it is Iman Shumpert we see with the crazy Player Exclusive sneakers. Shumpert recently broke out two different pairs of the adidas Real Deal made in Knicks colors exclusively for him. This isn’t the first Player Exclusive [...]

This bodes well for the Lakers playoff hopes and not so much for Utah. The Jazz may be without their talented young big man, Enes Kanter for the rest of the season. Kanter is out indefinitely with a dislocated shoulder. Those injuries typically require surgery to fully heal, so we’ll see. At this very second, [...]

What rift? So much has been made of the New York Knicks’ pairing of Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire. They weren’t considered a fitting couple and Stoudemire’s injuries have only complicated matters and put their collective vision in jeopardy. Even as the two began to gel better on the court this season, running pick-and-rolls and [...]