Rookie of the Year

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 [...]

February 13th, 2012 – Check out our NBA Rookie Rankings for the month of February 2012……. [...]

July 13, 2011 – Allen Moll While it’s obviously unfair to anoint a 15 year old high school hoops phenom the “next” anything just yet, sometimes the comparison to former greats or current superstars aren’t that far off. One such case may very well turn out to be exciting Class of 2013 big man Aaron Gordon, [...]

May 4, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors About a month or two into the season, Blake Griffin became the NBA’s most exciting player. His high wire act had fans buzzing the entire season.  But to his credit, he’s not just a dunker. You don’t average 22 and 12 by being just a dunker. Nor do [...]

January 25, 2011 – Allen Moll With the NBA season now roughly at the midway point, we are starting to get a better glimpse of just which rookies will be players going forward. After all the college season lasts approximately 30-40 games if you consider post-season play. Right about now is when these players muscles [...]

November 26, 2010 – Dr. Browntorious Blake Griffin is taking the NBA by storm making a serious early campaign for rookie of the year. He may be the new human highlight reel, but he’s also putting up big numbers as of late. However, when the TNT crew of Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Ernie Johnson [...]

September 29, 2010 – The Hoop Doctors Tyreke Evans, the NBA’s reigning ‘Rookie of the Year’ and star point guard for the Sacramento Kings, took some time away from his training to chat with The Hoop Doctors Kevin Burke at an EA Sports event in NYC this past weekend. We didn’t get a lot of [...]

August 22, 2008 – Dr. Anklesnap The Portland Trail Blazers don’t know Greg Oden. The media doesn’t know Greg Oden. The fans don’t know Greg Oden. Heck his college team Ohio State from 2006-07 doesn’t even know Greg Oden. So who does know Greg Oden? In a basketball sense, probably nobody but Greg Oden knows [...]