Miami Heat

The Hoop Doctors love Michael Jordan. That’s got to be pretty obvious to everyone by now. So in honor of Michael, and to discourage the media from pretending to be clairvoyant in the future when it comes to comparing young ballers to the greatest to ever play, every week I will be shining a little [...]

January 19, 2009 – Dr. Dime Russell Westbrook of the OKC Thunder was vying to be the 4th man selected by NBA fans to participate in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest at All-star Weekend. Well the voting is now over and word has it that Rudy Fernandez has been announced as the winner. I don’t [...]

January 17, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap After reading this Yahoo article this morning covering the recent comments by Pat Riley and the Miami Heat about their interest in the Toronto Raptors Center Jermaine O’Neal I was in a state of shock. The Heat is considering sending the versatile Shawn Marion for J.O.? What is Pat [...]

January 8, 2009 – Dr. J-Water I wouldn’t go as far as saying the Denver Nuggets are my favorite team to watch, but I will say that ever since Carmelo Anthony came out of ‘Cuse I have tried hard to never miss a televised Nuggz game. The Nuggets are just fun to watch, period. You [...]

December 29, 2008 – Dr. Browntorious Lebron James is 275 lbs of lean muscle mass this season. He’s like a damn freight train takin’ it to the cup, hence the nickname “L-Train”. If you try to give him a mickey mouse type of foul, or some other little tap he’s going to still score the [...]

December 22, 2008 – Dr. J-Water The Miami Heat are winning ball games again. The Heat are 14-12 and are currently 6th in the Eastern Conference. A couple of years ago you would be saying ‘so what? That’s not that great’, but given the low expectations for the Heat coming into this season with all [...]

November 29, 2008 – Dr. Dime The Miami Heat destroyed the Phoenix Suns last night, the final score may not have looked as bad as it really was but it was all on Dwyane Wade. He was an absolute beast, making my MVP race decisions that much more difficult! Wade put up a big 43 [...]

November 12, 2008 – Dr. Dime In the NBA TV broadcast analysis of the Lakers/Dallas game tonight, Gary Payton made some pretty bold statements about Rajon Rondo and his place on the Championship Celtics last season. Payton essentially implied that Rondo didn’t deserve his championship ring, that he just was lucky to be on a [...]

October 11, 2008 – Guest Post by Jon Nichols Basketball-Statistics.com is not your ordinary NBA statistics site, it is new, innovative, and fun. If you’ve not visited Jon Nichols site Basketball-Statistics.com, check out the Composite Score statistics. It’s one of the only player rating systems you’ll find that takes into account both offense and defense [...]

September 17, 2008 – Dr. Dime The Hoop Doctors know we must have hit a bit of a dead spot in the NBA off-season for intriguing news, as we have started to get mail already asking us: “Where are your 2008-09 season previews?”. Our response is always something along the lines of “easy tiger, they’re [...]