JJ Barea

Hurricane Maria caused mass destruction and damage and was catastrophic for Puerto Rico when it made landfall on September 20. The island is still recovering in the aftermath of the storm and one NBA player and native Puerto Rican has done whatever he can to help his people recover from the catastrophe: J.J Barea. Barea [...]

March 19, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors I guess Kevin Love really misses Ricky Rubio. Who knows, but maybe that’s what he told Barea during the Wolves timeout last night when they were getting beat by the Kings. Whatever was said between the two it got pretty heated when Barea launched into a tirade at [...]

August 23, 2011 – Ben Berry For the last few years, Converse has run their Open Gym program around the country and this year they expended the program launching a Converse Open Gym in Puerto Rico with the help of NBA players Carlos Arroyo and JJ Barea. [...]

July 25, 2011 – Ben Berry On Saturday, July 23, 2011, CONVERSE, Inc. launched Converse Open Gym Puerto Rico, one of the brand’s premier grassroots programs supporting basketball and kids. [...]

May 23, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors I think it’s safe to say that Dallas Mavericks’ Puerto Rican Guard J.J. Barea has overachieved given his size and athletic ability. He’s currently a very key piece of a Mavericks team that is clicking on all cylinders in the Western Conference Finals against the OKC Thunder. This [...]

May 6, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors In order for the Lakers to climb back in their series against Dallas, they need to slow down Dirk Nowitzki. Ron Artest may be capable of doing that by playing physical against Nowitzki. Too bad Ron won’t get the chance to try in Game 3. He was understandably [...]

May 04, 2011 – Joshua Sexton If there is one thing I took away from the Mavericks’ Game 1 victory over the Lakers it’s this: Dallas is a much deeper team than Los Angeles. Anyone could look at the statistics and be able to tell you the Mavericks had a better bench than the Lakers [...]

December 3, 2008 – Dr. Anklesnap I know everyone this morning will be talking about either the David vs. Goliath victory for the Indiana Pacers against the LA Lakers, or possibly even the Chauncey Billups show in Denver during the Nuggz absolute and unequivocal domination of the Toronto Raptors. Personally I think there was a [...]