NBA Lockout

November 26, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors After 149 days the NBA Lockout is over! Early this morning the NBA players and owners reached a handshake agreement on a new CBA. The only hold up in finalizing the deal is that the players disbanded the union. To completely close the deal the players will need [...]

Looks like Deron Williams has been given the green light in Turkey... [...]

November 18, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The fact that any chance of having a season seems very slim means that we may see more and more big name NBA stars heading overseas to make some money this season before its too late. The agent for Kevin Durant confirmed an overseas media report Thursday that [...]

October 31, 2011 – R.S. De France Flipping through the channels the other night, I finally saw something that looked interesting. The title read “basketball,” so I clicked on it. While the NBA still works on a deal, the only basketball on television was a WNBA charity game to raise money for breast cancer. Although [...]

October 26, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The President of the United States last night appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Given the fact that the POTUS is a known basketball junkie, Leno had to ask him his thoughts on the lockout. Aside from voicing his concern that the lockout would cause the [...]

Steve! Steve wake up! Wow man, great to see you again. The accident was pretty nasty but we’re happy you’re ok. You’ve been in a coma for the last six months, it’s October now. What’s happened since you’ve been out? Well, since I know you’re most interested in basketball news let’s just start with that. [...]

October 13, 2011 – Dane Carbaugh I‘m not usually one to criticize others, especially when it comes to something as trivial as sports. However, upon reading Jeff MacGregor’s piece on ESPN this week I was put off so much it begs going over. If you don’t want to read MacGregor’s whole piece, I’ll summarize it [...]

October 11, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors After the record-breaking season the NBA enjoyed last year, it now seems like a distant memory. After roughly 13 hours of negotiations over two days failed to close what he termed a significant gulf “on virtually all issues,” NBA commissioner David Stern cancelled the first two weeks of [...]

October 7, 2011 – R.S. De France As the NBA lockout continues, four months and counting, we get you caught up on how NBA players are spending their time off. Sure, there have been the usual run-ins with the law, retirements, and entertainment cross-overs; but there has also been some great basketball. One of the [...]

September 29, 2011 – R.S. De France If Larry Bird and Magic could eventually become friends, if the various interests in the U.S. government could come to a resolution on the debt crisis, and if the NFL owners and players could come to an agreement, surely it must be possible to end the NBA lockout [...]