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The Basketball Recruiting Tale You Will Remember
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...has been made for TV a dozen times. There's a ton of cash in recruiting basketball players. Sneaker money, agent money, booster money, fraudulent charities, siblings and parents of players getting jobs...
Blog | May 13, 2009Jamario Moon in "Sole Influence"
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...s wall-to-wall stories about the many psycho things that happen in the world of basketball recruiting and sneaker wars. Plenty of current NBA figures (everyone from Sonny Vaccaro to Lamar Odom) pop...
Blog | November 26, 2007Basketball Recruiting: Still Dirty!
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...know how every now and again someone writes a great article about how disgusting college recruiting is in basketball? And about how a lot of the top amateur basketball players are not amateur at...
Blog | August 20, 2007Mark Kriegel on PISTOL
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...thing ever--based solely on the excerpt. (I have a history of getting very excited about good basketball books. I'm excitable like that.) Since then I have actually gotten my hands on a review...
Blog | February 05, 2007Colangelo Still Wants Pro Coaches on Team USA
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...league policed it the way the NCAA handles recruiting violations, There'd be teams getting the 'death...while serving as an assistant on the USA Basketball staff at the World Championships, Tournament of the...
Blog | October 29, 2009First Cup: Wednesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBob Ryan of The Boston Globe: "The principals on both sides understand that this was only the beginning of a very long journey. By the next time they ...
Blog | October 28, 2009Monday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...that, now, basketball is behind hurling. (UPDATE: I first wrote "curling" which was a typo. But TrueHoop reader Daniel points out that the NBA is behind curling too.) An NCAA coach says recruiting European players...
Blog | October 19, 2009Sonny Vaccaro Will be Heard
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...reached out to Sonny Vaccaro, legendary insider of basketball, summer camps and the basketball shoe industry. Vaccaro...well worth hearing from. On Derrick Rose and Recruiting We finally caught up recently, and Vaccaro says...
Blog | September 01, 2009The Mixed Messages Surrounding Michael Beasley
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopFor the last two days, I have done little but talk to basketball people trying to better understand the current state of Michael Beasley. It's a tricky job...
Blog | August 26, 2009First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...But 'Becoming Legendary: The Story of Michael Jordan,' which recently opened at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in advance of Jordan's induction on Sept. 11, is a soulless exercise in...
Blog | August 18, 2009First Cup: Monday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...there. Penny Hardaway dropped in. So did Memphis coach Josh Pastner, and not because he's recruiting Hollins's kid. 'Lionel asked me to come,' said Pastner, and see how easy...
Blog | August 17, 2009First Cup: Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...available under league rules - to go after Odom. Guard Dwyane Wade turned Twitter into his own personal recruiting message board for Odom's services. But this is what you get when you've...
Blog | July 31, 2009First Cup: Monday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...a member of Jim Dutcher's greatest recruiting class when he coached the Gophers, is now...will be a challenge for Timberwolves President of Basketball Operations David Kahn to get Rubio in the...
Blog | July 27, 2009First Cup: Thursday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopMike McGraw of the Arlington Heights Daily Herald: "Parting can be sweet sorrow. Or in the case of Ben Gordon, who verbally agreed to join the De...
Blog | July 02, 2009Not Smelling Like a Rose
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...keeping him away from all the scum of recruiting? Now it's time to start asking...on the charters [if they pay]." In basketball circles, while Derrick was at Memphis, Reggie was...
Blog | May 28, 2009EDITOR'S PICKS
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