Recruit

Kevin Durant’s departure from OKC is old news now, but the story itself will forever be intriguing. Reports have indicated that the Warriors players, namely Draymond Green, were actively recruiting Durant during the season. Many wonder if that was happening during the Western Conference Finals, as the Thunder was squandering a 3-1 series lead to [...]

Yes, things are weird between Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat. No, that doesn’t mean he’s signing with the Cleveland Cavaliers, or the Denver Nuggets, or the Milwaukee Bucks, or the Chicago Bulls. Yes, it feels more and more likely that, at some point before retiring, he will play somewhere other than Miami. Beyond the [...]

Don’t think the Golden State Warriors haven’t done their homework on Kevin Durant. During an episode of The Vertical Podcast with Woj, The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski revealed that Golden State’s players have been recruiting him to the Bay Area all season. Here’s the transcription, via ProBasketballTalk’s Dan Feldman: Here’s the thing that’s interesting about Golden [...]

The New York Knicks have an aggressive free-agent recruiter in Carmelo Anthony. Though the NBA’s open-market craze doesn’t officially begin until July 1, Anthony has already started courting Kevin Durant on behalf of New York. That’s the luxury of spending time together as members of Team USA’s basketball squad, per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/747495034832850946] [...]

Isaiah Thomas wants the world to know he stands by a since-deleted tweet that indicated he would try recruiting Kevin Durant to the Boston Celtics this summer. From Adam Himmelsbach of the Boston Globe: As Isaiah Thomas sat on his porch at home in Tacoma, Wash., last Monday after watching the Thunder lose Game 7 [...]

Well, this didn’t take long. Minutes removed from the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Game 7 loss in the Western Conference Finals to the Golden State Warriors, as well as Kevin Durant’s steadfast insistence that he has no idea what he will do in free agency this summer, the race for his services unofficially began. Durant won’t [...]

March 31, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors On many occasions we have highlighted one of the Top High School recruits in the nation, Austin Rivers, who has committed to attending Duke next season. Under the tuteledge of Coach K, he’s sure to develop into one of the top scorers in the college ranks and definitely [...]

December 8, 2010 – Allen Moll As if the Duke Blue Devils weren’t already the most potent team in the collegiate ranks with both the National Preseason POY Kyle Singler providing leadership and outstanding freshman phenom Kyrie Irving running the point, Duke may very well get even better from the perimeter next season once elite [...]

October 7, 2010 – Allen Moll The Kentucky Wildcats’ biggest incoming recruit, literally and figuratively, for this upcoming season is Turkish superstar Enes Kantner. Standing at 6’11 inches, and weighing more than 270 pounds, Kantner is an imposing figure as the heir apparent to DeMarcus Cousins as starting center in Lexington for the 2010-2011 season. With [...]

September 3, 2010 – The Hoop Doctors The Hoop Doctors Kevin Burke recently had a chance to chat with Brandon Knight, who last year was one of the top high school basketball players in the country, and this year is the newest member of the University of Kentucky basketball program. He is the highly recruited [...]