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Despite Aggressive Efforts, Milwaukee Bucks Not Finding Trade Partners for Greg Monroe

Despite Aggressive Efforts, Milwaukee Bucks Not Finding Trade Partners for Greg Monroe

It looks like the Greg Monroe will be a member of the Milwaukee Bucks to start the 2016-17 NBA regular season. But not by choice, for either party. From Gery Woelfel of the Racine Journal Times: Multiple NBA sources told me the Bucks accelerated their attempts to trade Monroe this summer — even though from [...]

September 20, 2016 admin Blogs 0

Rudy Gay Basically Wants Out of Sacramento

Rudy Gay Basically Wants Out of Sacramento

Rudy Gay seems to have purchased some property and has been residing on the trade block for quite some time now. That constant possibility of being dealt along with playing for a dysfunctional organization like the Kings has seemed to wear on the 30-year-old small forward. Gay made it no secret to Kings management that [...]

September 20, 2016 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

Knicks Didn’t Pursue Jeremy Lin in Free Agency Because of His Defense

Knicks Didn’t Pursue Jeremy Lin in Free Agency Because of His Defense

Jeremy Lin entered free agency after a terrific year with the Charlotte Hornets. The New York Knicks, at the time, needed a good point guard. Lin, most likely, wanted a starting spot. The timing was perfect. These two parties needed each other, just like they did in 2011-12, only in a different capacity. Lin needed [...]

September 20, 2016 admin Blogs 0

David Blatt will Get NBA Championship Ring from Cleveland Cavaliers

David Blatt will Get NBA Championship Ring from Cleveland Cavaliers

David Blatt is a championship NBA head coach. Sort of. According to the Beacon Journal‘s Jason Lloyd, Blatt will be receiving a championship ring from the Cleveland Cavaliers even though he was canned midway through the season: David Blatt is getting one more parting gift from the Cavaliers: a championship ring. Blatt was fired at [...]

September 16, 2016 admin Blogs 0

Shaq Calls Philadelphia 76ers Rookie Ben Simmons a ‘LeBron-Type Player’

Shaq Calls Philadelphia 76ers Rookie Ben Simmons a ‘LeBron-Type Player’

As if being the first overall pick in this year’s NBA draft wasn’t pressure enough for Ben Simmons, now he has to live up to Shaq’s career projections. The Big Aristotle was asked about Simmons’ potential while in Springfield, Massachusetts, for his Hall of Fame Induction. He offered up a comparison to LeBron James without [...]

September 14, 2016 admin Blogs 0

Bojan Bogdanovic Thinks Brooklyn Nets Can Make NBA Playoffs—Yes, Those Nets

Bojan Bogdanovic Thinks Brooklyn Nets Can Make NBA Playoffs—Yes, Those Nets

It doesn’t matter how well Bojan Bogdanovic plays for the Brooklyn Nets next season. He’s already earned his contractual keep by trafficking in impossible optimism. This is to say, he thinks the Nets, as currently constructed, can make the NBA playoffs, per the New York Post‘s Brian Lewis: Bookmakers and pundits have projected the Nets [...]

September 13, 2016 admin Blogs 0

Carmelo Anthony Promised Fat Joe the Knicks Will Have an ‘Incredible’ Year

Carmelo Anthony Promised Fat Joe the Knicks Will Have an ‘Incredible’ Year

Welcome to this edition of Random Sound Bite of the NBA Offseason, featuring rapper Fat Joe, Carmelo Anthony and New York Knicks-related pipe dreams. This is a real sentence, that I actually typed, without the slightest hint of irony. Fat Joe went on ESPN’s First Take, because obviously, and relayed an interaction he had with [...]

September 13, 2016 admin Blogs 0

Top 25 Under 25 NBA Players for 2016

Top 25 Under 25 NBA Players for 2016

Now that the Olympics are over and we return to the early days of fall for the association with little to keep NBA fans occupied until October, I thought it was time for The Hoop Doctors annual Top 25 Under 25 NBA rankings. There are many things taken into consideration for these Under 25 NBA [...]

September 12, 2016 Anou Enright Lists 0

Minnesota Timberwolves Still Waiting to See if Kevin Garnett Will Retire

Minnesota Timberwolves Still Waiting to See if Kevin Garnett Will Retire

Kevin Garnett is apparently in no rush to decide whether to retire. We know this because he hasn’t yet told the Minnesota Timberwolves if he’ll be returning next season. Here’s what team owner Glen Taylor told NBA.com’s Steve Aschburner: “Kevin hasn’t told me or informed me yet if he’s coming back to play or if [...]

September 9, 2016 admin Blogs 0

Anthony Davis Won’t Have Any Restrictions When Pelicans Start 2016-17

Anthony Davis Won’t Have Any Restrictions When Pelicans Start 2016-17

At long last, some good news for the New Orleans Pelicans: Anthony Davis won’t have any medical restrictions to begin the 2016-17 season. From the Times-Picayune‘s John Reid: Anthony Davis is expected to be medically cleared to start the season with no restrictions, New Orleans Pelicans general manager Dell Demps said at a season-ticket event [...]

September 9, 2016 admin Blogs 0