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June 20, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors As we prepare for Game 5 of the 2012 NBA Finals, here are the Top 10 Individual Performances in NBA Finals’ Game 5’s over the last 20 years (1991-2011): 10. 2009 Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol (Los Angeles Lakers) Closing out Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic in [...]

May 22, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors After all that happened between Metta and James Harden, it’s good to know that each guy is mature enough to realize that you can attribute it to good, hard basketball. Following last night’s game 5 clincher in OKC, Harden and MWP embraced with puts to bed any talks [...]

May 15, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Don’t get me wrong, Russell Westbrook had an absolutely dominating game against the Lakers last night to blow them out by 30 in the first game of the Western Conference Semi’s, however did anyone catch the post-game? Westbrook is starting to take this Hipster style to a whole [...]

May 7, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors In baseball and football, we’ve seen fans run onto the field, even though they’re not that close too the action. But with basketball being so intimate in terms of how close fans are to the court, it’s amazing it hardly ever happens. Maybe this lady was thinking the [...]

May 2, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors No one questions Kobe Bryant’s will and drive to win come playoff time. The man simply takes it to another level defensively in the post-season. Prime example was last night in LA for Game 2 against the Denver Nuggets, the Lakers up almost 10 points, Kobe still goes [...]

April 22, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors I think we all know that when Ron Artest changed his name to Metta World Peace, the day would come where we had to publish a headline with “World Peace” coupled with a violent word like “Elbowing” or “Punching”. Well that day is here, as Metta was ejected [...]

April 19, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Tim Duncan is ‘BAD A$$’. Yeah I said it. The guy is the most reserved and underestimated NBA, sure fire hall of fame, player in history. So when he does stuff like sport a Punisher Knee Brace during a real NBA game this week against the LA Lakers, [...]

April 6, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors This look on teammate Andrew Bynum’s face after Pau Gasol gets obliterated by Blake Griffin is priceless. I am pretty sure all of Los Angeles still has that look on their faces from both of Griffin’s poster dunks on Gasol Wednesday night. **Click to Enlarge** [...]

The battle over Los Angeles resumed with the Lakers beating the Clippers, 113-108, with resounding performances by Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum. [...]

April 5, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors As if the Lakers-Clippers series hasn’t been intense enough this year. Last night, Kendrick Perkins may have been relieved of his duties as poster boy. Blake Griffin took it to Pau Gasol not once, but twice with two vicious posterizing dunks. What made matters worse for Pau is [...]