NBA Draft

The heart wants what the heart wants, and Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving had his heart set on Harrison Barnes. Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski penned a scathing piece dedicated to the inbred dysfunction and disorder the Cavaliers franchise has come to represent, in which he held nothing back. And I mean nothing. When he [...]

Let’s call last year’s NBA trade deadline what it was: Awful and boring. Next, let’s guess what this year’s NBA trade deadline will be like: Potentially awful and boring. The current collective bargaining agreement has made it so NBA teams aren’t as frivolous with their spending and willingness to assume long-term contracts. Punitive luxury-tax penalties [...]

Oh, Kemba. I’ve never considered Kemba Walker to be amongst the most emotional of NBA players. Sure, I’ve seen him cheer after a big shot or ankle-breaking crossover, but nothing that led me to believe he was the down-on-his-knees, sing-to-the-heavens, shed-a-tear-over-an-offseason-signing type player. Alas, I was wrong. According to Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer, [...]

Kevin Garnett can’t become a member the Los Angeles Clippers, but maybe he can join the Brooklyn Nets. According to Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News, Nets general manager Billy King made a call to the Boston Celtics to inquire about Garnett’s desire to play in Brooklyn: Multiple sources told the Daily News [...]

This should come a shock to no one. Indiana junior Victor Oladipo wowed the basketball community all year. The general consensus is that he has an NBA game and not many thought he would hang around in Indiana past this season. Today, that speculation became official, as he is declaring for the NBA draft. Oladipo [...]

May 30, 2012 – Check out 5 moves that the Philadelphia 76ers need to make to become contenders…… [...]

May 22, 2012 – Allen Moll Going back just one year ago, many were still unsure if one of the top five ranked high school hoops prodigies, Kyrie Irving, from the vaunted St. Patrick’s in New Jersey, who coincidentally played in only 11 games on the collegiate level albeit at Duke, was worthy of the [...]

May 4, 2012 – Allen Moll Every couple of years an up-and-coming hoops prospect seems to have that something special that will make him a star on any level of basketball.  In the past, some players that have embodied that buzz as early as high school have been Lebron James, John Wall, and Anthony Davis. [...]

On this week's THD podcast, Kevin Burke takes a trip around the NBA... [...]

April 9, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors After being stuck on the bench behind Marcus and Markieff Morris last year, Thomas Robinson had a chance to show the world what he was made of this year. He was runner up for player of the year and a sure-fire top 5 pick. KU coach Bill Self [...]