Playoffs

May 20, 2011 – THD Podcast This week on THD Podcast Kevin Burke discusses his take on the playoffs thus far… If you often find yourself too busy to watch The Hoop Doctors Podcasts, get them on the go for your iPhone or iPod! Subscribe to our Podcasts in the iTunes Directory, free of charge. [...]

May 12, 2011 – Joshua Sexton To say Pau Gasol’s performance in the playoffs was a disappointment would be understating the issue. In ten playoff games, Gasol failed to reach his regular season scoring average of 18 points one time, and he only reached his regular season rebounding mark three times. There were reports circulating [...]

May 11, 2011 – Joshua Sexton The NBA playoffs can easily be compared to a masterfully crafted novel, with each game serving as a small part of a larger storyline that unfolds over a two month period. The players serve as the characters in the novel, whose talents, personalities and histories can elicit admiration or [...]

May 06, 2011 – Joshua Sexton On Tuesday night, the Miami Heat took a 2-0 advantage in their best of seven, semifinal series with the Boston Celtics. On the Western Conference side of the bracket, the Thunder were able to even their series with the Memphis Grizzlies at one game a piece, after losing Game [...]

May 4, 2011 – Ben Berry Jose Juan Barea goes up for a layup in the Converse Poor Man Pro Team Low. In the Air Max Fly By, Shawn Marion defends a cutting Kobe Bryant in the Zoom Kobe VI “Del Sol”. Lamar Odom shoots in the Nike Hyperdunk 2011 while defended by Jason Terry [...]

May 02, 2011 – Joshua Sexton According to slamonline, after the Memphis Grizzlies’ Game 1 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder, Zach Randolph went on to say that Kendrick Perkins was too slow to guard him. [...]

April 26, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The star of Tony Allen is shining bright right now in Memphis Grizzlies nation, as he is playing an integral role in sparking the Grizz to a 3-1 series lead over the number one seeded San Antonio Spurs. But Tony is making waves today for his off court [...]

April 23, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Today the NBA announced the one game suspension (Game 4) for both Zaza Pachulia of the Atlanta Hawks and Jason Richardson of the Orlando Magic. Pachulia and J-Rich were both involved in an altercation in the closing minutes of Game 3 (video after the jump). The league’s disciplinarian, [...]

April 21, 2011 – R.S. De France After losing game one of the quarterfinals to New Orleans, 109-100, the Lakers recovered in game two with a narrow 87-78 victory. In these two games, the Lakers have seen consistency and inconsistency in strange places. So far, Ron Artest and Andrew Bynum have been the most consistent [...]

April 20, 2011 – Joshua Sexton As the old saying goes: Better late than never. This is what was going through my head moments after I discovered what might be, but likely isn’t, Bill Walton’s Twitter account Saturday afternoon. To say Walton’s tweets (or someone tweeting what would be Walton’s “tweets if only he knew [...]