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December 12, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Can we all give a collective “WTF” for New York Knicks fans everywhere? I swear this picture of Eddy Curry at the Miami Heat training camp released this weekend is NOT photoshopped. Eddy Curry is SKINNY! [...]

December 2, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors From the day he was drafted as a power forward, Chris Bosh has been dragged kicking and screaming into the center position for at least some of his minutes. The Toronto Raptors tried various combinations of Centers over the years to play alongside Chris Bosh, but most of [...]

August 5, 2011 – R.S. De France The Hoop Doctors continue looking back at the greatest centers in NBA history, decade by decade, with the 1980’s: ABOUT STATISTICS NOTES Drafted: 1971 (ABA) NBA Debut: 1977 season In 1980’s: Games 557 Points 11,148 20.0 ppg Rebounds 4,181 7.5 rpg Blocks 326 0.58 bpg 1972 All-Star Game [...]

October 14, 2010 – Kevin Burke In order for basketball teams to maximize their full potential, everyone must play their role. Two important cogs, of course, are the Point Guard and the Center. Watching the Point and a Center work a pick and roll is a thing of beauty. There have been some very good PG/C tandems [...]

September 17, 2010 – Kevin Burke It’s no secret that the NBA goes through different eras.  All of which played a role in giving us the league in which we know and love today. We currently live in the the era of the scoring perimeter player. Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Tracy McGrady, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, [...]

September 14, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol Well the Bobcats couldn’t find a home for the Big Damp, so they decided to just let him walk…. Unable to pull off a trade, the Bobcats have waived center Erick Dampier, which voids his $13 million contract and gets Charlotte under the luxury tax. Tuesday’s move comes [...]

September 10, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol The New Jersey Nets signed veteran free agent forward Joe Smith to a one-year contract and hired Milton Lee as director of basketball operations on Friday. Smith received the veteran minimum of $1,352,131, the team said. The first pick overall in the 1995 draft, Smith is joining his [...]

January 14, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap It’s certainly a sensitive time right now in the New York Knicks camp after the news story went viral on the web that one of their centers, Eddy Curry, has been accused of gay sexual harrassment by his personal chauffeur. But regardless of how the story unfolds through the [...]

September 15, 2008 – Dr. J-Water There has been a lot of media attention swirling in the last couple of weeks about the rehabilitation progress of the Lakers young center and rising star, Andrew Bynum. And while it is widely accepted that Bynum is the Lakers center of the future, quite a few questions remain [...]

August 29, 2008 – Dr. Anklesnap He was the only player to average a double double in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. He was the 2008 Olympic leader in blocks. He was the 2008 Olympic leader in rebounds. No, we are not talking about USA’s Dwight Howard here, it’s the Iranian national team Center [...]