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With his unbelievable history of securing top recruits and continually sending multiple players each and every year on to the NBA ranks, University of Kentucky coach John Calipari is hands down the nation’s best recruiter. Ever since he left Memphis for Kentucky back prior to the ’09-’10 season, Cal and his staff has secured the [...]

Basketball sneakers are generally planned up to 18 months ahead of release schedule to do wear/testing to work out as many problems with the shoe as possible before it hits store shelves. Knowing that piece of info helps to understand why we were able to get not only the line drawing & colorway list for [...]

After breaking his leg last weekend, Louisville’s Kevin Ware has been medically cleared to travel with the team. He will be on the bench cheering his team on during the Final Four in Atlanta this weekend. Many feel that his sheer presence will give Louisville a boost. That remains to be seen. But there will [...]

Jay-Z continues to invade the sporting world and now the part-owner of the Brooklyn Nets has started a company to represent athletes. Kevin Burke explains why this is a can’t-miss. And Kevin also discusses the fallout from the  Kevin Ware injury. If you often find yourself too busy to watch The Hoop Doctors Podcasts, get them [...]

Kevin Durant would like to bestow the NBA’s scoring title upon Carmelo Anthony. Okay, that’s a bit much, but he doesn’t mind if Anthony winds up winning it. Per Royce Young of dailythunder.com, Melo can have the scoring title if he wants it: KD on the scoring title race with Carmelo Anthony: “He can have [...]

Well, this doesn’t look pretty. Late in the second quarter of the Denver Nuggets’ eventual win over the Dallas Mavericks, Danilo Gallinari took Dirk Nowitzki off the dribble with his left hand when suddenly, what seemed like an open path to the basket turned into a potentially season-ending injury. Gallo’s left knee buckled in toward [...]

For a guy that grew up on NBA basketball in the 90’s, Gary Payton was more of a legend than most of the NBA fans today probably realize. NBA.com and FoxSportsFlorida.com report that Payton, the anticipated headliner of the class of 2013, will have his selection officially announced on Monday and that John Stockton and [...]

Anytime there is a new adidas basketball sneaker, I hope that this particular colorway makes an appearance, so I’m very happy to report that there is an ‘Electricity’ Crazy Quick colorway coming soon. This pair of the adidas Crazy Quick boasts all the features of every other Crazy Quick, like a slimmer, low profile Sprintframe [...]

New York Knicks star guard J.R. Smith has had a bit of a roller coaster career thus far, but this year he is getting plenty of attention for the positive things he brings to a contending team. No one has ever doubted Smith’s athletic ability and/or skill set, what often comes into question is shot [...]

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich expressed regret over Mike Rice’s situation at Rutgers. He also seems to understand. Rice was terminated by Rutgers after a video surfaced of him cursing, essentially assaulting and throwing balls at his players. Based upon recently revealed information and a review of previously discovered issues, Rutgers has terminated [...]