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Three years later, John Wall is ecstatic to be a member of the Washington Wizards. Actually, he’s always been elated at the prospect of playing for the Wizards and city of Washington, hence the five-year, $80-million extension he inked over the summer. But this year is different; this team is different. One of the NBA’s [...]

Derrick Rose is more explosive. Come get some. Following the Chicago Bulls’ preseason victory over the Detroit Pistons, during which he scored 22 points in 22 minutes, Rose was pretty forthcoming about how confident he is in himself and his team. First he reiterated that he’s more explosive than he was before the injury, according [...]

Well we are almost back, folks! The 2013-14 NBA Season is almost upon us. Training camps have come and gone, preseason is almost through, and the usual ESPN rankings and predictions have had the web buzzing the last few days about the new season. The Hoop Doctors original video series is back after a well [...]

Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Not to make light of the situation,  because it’s very unfortunate. Greg Oden had to skip Miami’s most recent practice because he was experiencing swelling in his knee. Maybe this is nothing, or maybe this is something. Who knows at this point. But this is why he’s only [...]

As one Adam Fromal would say: Hahahahaha. An ESPN system called SCHOENE predicted the New York Knicks to finish 37-45 this season, per the New York Post‘s Marc Berman, which is hysterical. The Knicks went 54-28 last year, meaning they’d have to be 17 games worse in 2013-14. Again, hysterical. Carmelo Anthony wasn’t laughing, though. [...]

Mike D’Antoni has jokes. There wasn’t much to laugh about for the Los Angeles Lakers last season and after losing Dwight Howard to the Houston Rockets, that’s sort of true today. Then, you know, there’s the whole Kobe Bryant still being injured thing. Reasons to smile aren’t exactly banging Los Angeles’ door down. Still, Magic [...]

This may come as news to you, but LeBron James can score. Oh you knew that? And you hate people who state the obvious? Sorry, my bad. For his career, LeBron is averaging 27.6 points per game. Even with the Miami Heat, who have two other top-tier scorers in Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade, The [...]

Dwight Howards’s departure from Orlando almost makes LeBron’s look innocent. But more than a year later, why is Dwight still talking about his days in Orlando? He needs to just let that go and get on with his career. The sooner he stops talking about the Magic, the better it will be. After he left [...]

Detroit made one of the moves of the summer by trading for Brandon Jennings, but will be without his services to start the season. Jennings is being sidelined for about 3 weeeks with a bad…tooth. The PG has bum wisdom tooth that is causing some other issues. The good news is that he won’t miss that [...]

Things change in the NBA all the time. Preseason basketball is often considered meaningless because, well, it is. It’s supposed to be a time for star players to work through rust, fringe players to secure roster spots and coaches to nail down rotations. And in many ways, that’s what it is.  But it’s also a [...]