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Taking Inventory at Christmastime
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...December basketball? Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane once described his trifurcated view of the long baseball season. The first of the season is for taking inventory of what a team has. The middle...
Blog | December 24, 2009First Cup: Thursday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopTom Enlund of the Journal Sentinel: "What would have been an oh-so-sweet victory over the NBA-champion Los Angeles Lakers was there for the taking Wed...
Blog | December 17, 2009LeBron James: How to perfect the nearly perfect
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBy Kevin Arnovitz Professionals in any field pick up new tricks all the time. To a great extent, that's what makes them professionals -- a willingn...
Blog | December 01, 2009Monday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...instance, they can count cards all the way through a game of poker, or rattle off every baseball player's batting average? Suddenly occurred to me that I'd love to see somebody who could...
Blog | November 23, 2009Shane Battier, King of the Quad
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...Honestly, it was just like a movie scene or something. Battier catches it and asks, "You play baseball man?" and I tell him "Yeah I play for my high school." Then he shocked the hell...
Blog | November 17, 2009C.J. Watson OK with giving up No. 23; Toney Douglas not so sure
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...is no precedent in basketball for every team retiring the same number en masse, as Major League Baseball did a few years ago with Jackie Robinson's No. 42, although the Miami Heat have retired...
Blog | November 13, 2009Thursday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...Via the Two Man Game.) Oh man oh man. In a perfect world, basketball would have, like baseball, a famous historical tale of a player doing something amazing while on drugs. I'm sure it...
Blog | November 12, 2009LeBron James: No Steroids in the NBA
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...a Q+A with Maxim: It's something that's not done. I think it's hurting baseball, because it wasn't banned and now it is banned, so it's hard to flush out...
Blog | October 16, 2009First Cup Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopVince Ellis of the Detroit Free Press: "Chris Bosh won a legal victory Wednesday and claimed custody of around 800 Internet domain names that had been...
Blog | October 16, 2009Late Friday Mini-Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...39; talks. You see, when I was growing up, you got one Game of the Week in baseball (and it was usually the Yankees). One (if you were lucky) pro basketball game of the week...
Blog | October 09, 2009Watch This Debate
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopA call, in baseball, to have machines call balls and strikes. If they're way more accurate, why wouldn'...
Blog | October 09, 2009Tuesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...et al for launching the SweetSpot Network, which is sort of like the TrueHoop Network, but for baseball. The Timberwolves' expanding international audience. Remember Wayne Winston said that every lineup with Kobe Bryant, Lamar...
Blog | October 06, 2009The Great NBA Swap Meet
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopPosted by Kevin Arnovitz Yesterday, we made mention of Brett Hainline's swap machine, which uses a player's offensive and defensive efficiency...
Blog | September 23, 2009First Cup: Wednesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopRonald Tillery of The Commercial Appeal: "Less than a week after the Grizzlies introduced Allen Iverson as the most significant free-agent acquis...
Blog | September 16, 2009Tuesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...his part (including offering a cold burger) to try to lure LeBron James to New York. In baseball and hockey teams are experimenting with "dynamic pricing." This is where ticket prices change all...
Blog | September 15, 2009EDITOR'S PICKS
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