Posted by Kevin Arnovitz In Game 5, the Lakers cracked the code on the offensive end. They discovered that the Nuggets were giving them swaths of open space in the halfcourt, much of it the result of double-tea
Every now and again in football, someone will hit an insanely long field goal. When they do, everyone says: "Amazing kick!" David Thorpe says: "Amazing coaching decision!" Sending a kicker o
The Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Orlando Magic by ten points in Game 5. Don't let the final score fool you. This was essentially Orlando's game -- they scared the Cleveland crowd into near silence much
Remember back when Derrick Rose was in high school, and there were all those articles about how Derrick was so lucky to have his brothers keeping him away from all the scum of recruiting? Now it's time to s
The Lakers beat the Nuggets in a crucial Game 5 to go up 3-2. Some notes on the big game at Staples Center: The Lakers had various runs -- a 10-1 run early in the game, a 7-0 run in the middle of the third. B
My friend Max (who also goes by Jamal, or Dealmaker ... I have have been consulting with about reducing his names, and as a joke I said "Max/Jamal/Dealmaker, you're like the Triple Threat!" His re
A huge night for the Magic, after a pulse-pounding Game 4 win to go up 3-1. The Magic can sniff the Finals. The Cleveland Cavaliers -- everybody's favorite heading into the playoffs -- are on the ropes.&nbs
John Hollinger (Insider) with some pretty big Dahntay Jones news: "He already has two flagrant foul points in the playoffs and would earn more points -- either one or two -- if his blatant, intentional t
On his blog, Dwight Howard writes that the Magic have found special motivation from all of the Kobe Bryant vs. LeBron James talk: Every time I look at TV, it seems like that's all anybody is talking about.
One shot. The 1 spot for the Lakers is a concern. And is Gregg Popovich still The One in San Antonio? John Krolik of Cavs the Blog: "On Friday, the funeral was a second away. The Cavs had blown the bigges
At the beginning of this season, I spent a day learning about now NBA referees do their jobs. One of the things I learned was about the block/charge: A lot of calls that look like charges are correctly called
Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Spend some time around the Denver Nuggets this spring and you'll hear how Carmelo Anthony's commitment on the defensive end of the floor has a lot to do with the team's succ
In ESPN The Magazine, Peter Keating does an amazing job reporting the story of Clipper owner Donald Sterling. There is a pubic relations issue at play with Sterling. People suing him for this or that have demon
What did we take away from Game 1 of the Western Conference finals? Is Joe Johnson really a first option? Who will draw the LeBron assignment for Orlando? And if you're in need of a point guard, maybe the 2
Posted by Kevin Arnovitz LOS ANGELES -- Half an hour after the Denver Nuggets landed at LAX around noon, they were on the Lakers' home floor at Staples Center in their street clothes. While Nene, wearing sl
After the Lakers professionally dispatched with the upstart Rockets, the defending champion Celtics would doubtless like to do the same to the Magic. Something tells me it won't be as simple -- in these pla
Shelley Smith, ESPN bureau reporter based in Los Angeles, was at Laker practice in El Segundo yesterday and writes: The 90-minute film session Friday was finished, and Lakers coach Phil Jackson announced to his
Lakers.com's Mike Trudell reports that the NBA has absolved Kobe Bryant of that alleged assault on Ron Artest's tongue. Trudell points out that Bryant now has four technicals in the playoffs, instead of
Shaquille O'Neal was on Atlanta's 790 The Zone and was asked if he had ever taken performance enhancing drugs. He proceeded to described his recipe as follows: Frosted Flakes Athletic Performance Enhan
Last night I basically convinced myself that the Lakers have now put the car into "drive" and are on rails to the Finals. Perhaps Houston had beaten them too well in Game 4, and the beast had finall
A few days ago, Malcolm Gladwell published a story in The New Yorker called "How David Beats Goliath." Different people took different things from that story -- to many it was nothing but an ode to th
Shelley Smith, ESPN bureau reporter based in Los Angeles, reports from Monday's Laker practice in El Segundo. Lamar Odom's Health An MRI administered to Lakers forward Lamar Odom Monday showed that Odo
TrueHoop reader Michael Truax, who did the work of charting LeBron James' non-calls in Game 1, is back in the saddle for Game 2. Here is his video of the controversial moments and in this one, there were a
Derek Fisher got a one-game suspension. He basically played DEA, and used his body as the battering ram to bust down the (somewhat flimsy) door at casa Luis Scola. Stu Jackson has pointed out that Fisher had
ESPN's Shelley Smith reports from Laker shootaround. Lamar Odom is likely to start in place of Andrew Bynum. Phil Jackson says "we're thinking about it." Two sources close to Odom say he will
The Denver Post's Chris Dempsey describes a period after last season when George Karl and his assistant Tim Grgurich decided to drop their running and gunning ways while getting back to the defense-first ap
When the Magic were up 28, I confess, I had all of those thoughts. I wondered if the second round would be really boring compared to the first round -- it's possible there will be four lopsided series. I wo
The TrueHoop Stat Geek Smackown is rolling along. And so far, the competition is pretty intense. With a few little exceptions here and there, everyboy picked the correct winner in every series. ... Except in th
Posted by Kevin Arnovitz It's unknown when the trope "matchup nightmare" first entered the basketball lexicon, but I imagine it happened at some point between Magic Johnson's rookie season and
The classic Boston Celtics vs. Chicago Bulls series concludes tonight. TrueHoop will be liveblogging the whole thing right here. Game time is 8 p.m. ET. Henry Abbott: Hope you have limbered up, warmed up,
Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Our initial intention here at TrueHoop was to cue up the ten best moments across all eight series of the first round. When it came time to start taking nominations, the Celtics-Bulls se
Ejected from Game 6 against the Sixers, the Magic's Dwight Howard instead took to Twitter and laid down some rich commentary ("did yalllllllll seeeeeeee thatttttttt") as his teammates ro
When people play like Joakim Noah -- with constant energy, but not all that much polish -- the idea is that the constant effort pays off. Boy did it ever. He works a thousand straight plays trying to create h
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