If Rip's Serving Dinner ... NBA
It's time for me to get going. One thing I will not be called is late for dinner. One thing I'm thankful for this year: TrueHoop readers. Smart, funny, and on the ball, your comments and e-mails make me happy
It's time for me to get going. One thing I will not be called is late for dinner. One thing I'm thankful for this year: TrueHoop readers. Smart, funny, and on the ball, your comments and e-mails make me happy
Bloomberg's Erik Matuszewski and Scott Soshnick: Magic Johnson says he won't make the same mistake twice and recommend Isiah Thomas for front office or coaching jobs in the National Basketball Association. J
From Paul Coro's blog on AZCentral.com on the recent bounce in Shaquille O'Neal's game: Maybe it's the yoga. He gave a shout-out for At One Yoga. Imagine him in your yoga class. "I'm not a monster at yog
I don't know much about the source, and it seems fairly one-sided, but for what it's worth, here's an attorney who used to prosecute these kinds of cases for the government saying the case against Mark Cuban
Last week I heard about a very emotional dinner that took place at the Vegas Summer League. The organizers of the Summer League invited all kinds of NBA front office people, coaches, and players, to eat, drink,
Different people fall in different places on the green spectrum. You might visit one house where it would be totally normal to turn your car off so as not to idle and waste gas, or to spend some serious time so
Mark Cuban previews his legal defense, posting some evidence on his blog that he did not make any kind of confidentiality agreement with the CEO of Mamma.com.Mark Cuban's brother pipes up, says Mark will prove
A leaked e-mail as evidence that Mark Cuban's extraordinary ability to annoy people may have extended to some powerful people in Washington, with the suggestion that maybe he's getting some retribution for fi
There was that fight on Wednesday night, which didn't get all that much attention even though it involved names like Shaquille O'Neal, Tracy McGrady, and Steve Nash. Now that the suspensions have been handed
I didn't know! Today I heard a bunch of stories about a dinner at Summer League in Las Vegas this past summer. It had all the makings of one of those rah-rah sports dinners where there are bad speeches and eve
Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Basketball's statistical revolution has come a long way in recent years, yet PPG is still stubbornly entrenched as basketball's defining stat. A lot of clubs are starting to employ
Posted by Kevin Arnovitz David Thorpe's newest installment of Rookie Watch is up, and Rudy Fernandez headlines the Top 10: He provides more than just box-score numbers. His energy, activity and feel for the g
Posted by Kevin Arnovitz It's a telling sign that Joey Whelan's well-drawn profile of DeMar DeRozan at DraftExpress has a sidebar capsule of O.J. Mayo beside it. DeRozan, USC's star recruit, will make his
Posted by Kevin Arnovitz The latest beneficiary of Mike D'Antoni's system in New York? Wilson Chandler, who will receive his second consecutive start today: "On Friday, Coach Mike D'Antoni matched Chandler
Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Being a point guard in Portland isn't easy. The professional game is structured such that 240 minutes are distributed among the active players -- last night's overtime game notwiths
Things are quiet on the Darius Miles front, despite Danny Ainge's testimonial on Miles behalf that he can still play. It's been pretty well-documented that the Portland Trail Blazers stand to lose a lot of mo
Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Shoals has a good read over at TSN on how moving to Detroit will reframe Iverson's cultural persona: "In Detroit now, though, Allen Iverson is once again subject to reinterpretation.
Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Will Carroll -- one of the smartest humans alive on all matters baseball -- writes a lucid piece for Basketball Prospectus sizing up the issues surrounding the Greg Oden injury. Carro
Now that the Nuggets have made a trade to threaten the Blazers' playoff spot, I have decided to head for the hills to consider things. Or at least travel to visit family. I'll be back November 13. In the mean
Drew Gooden is my kind of guy: Hair thinning to the point of having to shave the whole dome. Lang Whitaker of SLAM spills the beans that Gooden's macho, Jordanesque hairline had earned him the nickname "Reced