NBA

November 15, 2011 – Allen Moll There’s no doubting that the NBA has become a worldwide affair. Starting with players like Detlef Schrempf and Drazen Petrovic to the International stars of today like Dirk Nowitzki and Tony Parker, NBA scouts have scoured the globe in search of that next NBA superstar from abroad. Just last [...]

With the 2011 NBA lockout still looming over our heads, we need something a little more positive to think about. What basketball fan in their right mind doesn’t like to spend a few minutes pouring over rare pictures of Michael Jordan, the Greatest of All-time? Photos courtesy of the Michael Jordan hardcover book ‘Rare Air’… [...]

October 28, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors For the past 6-8 months Allen Iverson has been saying he wants back in the NBA, and thinks he deserves another shot. He believes he’s healthier than he’s been in years, and he’s mentally focused to play on the world’s greatest stage… “I’ll play for anybody,” Iverson told [...]

ESPN set the basketball community on fire with their player rankings. Let's discuss... [...]

October 18, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors One of the biggest road blocks in the negotiations is the split between basketball-related income. Naturally, each side wants more but are the players ready to lower their previous demands to save the season? Does this point about max salaries bear out in the math? A 15 percent [...]

October 6, 2011 – Dane Carbaugh I bought my first brand new car this weekend. I’d owned 14 cars in the last decade and I’d finally decided it was time to find something that had everything I needed and settle down. After test driving cars for a few weeks and finding the right dealer, the [...]

October 4, 2011 – Dane Carbaugh Reports surfaced this week that Madonna is going to be the entertainment at this year’s halftime show during Superbowl XLVI in Indianapolis. [...]

September 28, 2011 – Dane Carbaugh Long ago, way back before most of you started seeing David Stern and Adam Silver as Statler and Waldorf, the NBA was a league that fully embraced social media as a part of its marketing plan. As clips were amiably put up on YouTube, Twitter accounts were created and [...]

September 26, 2011 – Dane Carbaugh How the league’s marketability after the lockout is affected is something that should be of great interest to fans — it certainly will be for NBA owners. As the lockout is predicated on the issue of money, jersey and merchandise sales are a healthy branch of the revenue NBA [...]

September 26, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Buckets magazine just announced that their next issue set for release on November 2nd, will be a ‘Yearbook’ edition covering everything under the sun related to basketball culture. We wanted give a heads up to the readers of TheHoopDoctors.com before the pre-order sells out. There will be spotlights [...]