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First Cup: Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times: "Making his season's first appearance after sitting out the first 11 games because of a hamstring injury, Pau ...
Blog | November 20, 2009First Cup: Thursday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopMark Bradley of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "The Hawks won their 10th game of the nascent season Wednesday night. In 2004-05, this franchise man...
Blog | November 19, 2009C.J. Watson OK with giving up No. 23; Toney Douglas not so sure
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...player at the time was wearing it. "I always looked up to him, he was my favorite basketball player, so I always wore that number because I liked Michael Jordan." The future use of the...
Blog | November 13, 2009First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopRonald Tillery of The Commercial-Appeal: "From talk radio to message boards to water coolers in the workplace, Allen Iverson's departure has been cont...
Blog | November 10, 2009First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopHoward Beck of The New York Times: "Coach Mike D'Antoni, ever the nonconformist, is eliminating the morning shootaround for all home games this s...
Blog | October 13, 2009First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBroderick Turner and Mike Bresnahan of the Los Angeles Times: "Derek Fisher, 35, in his 14th season and the final year of a contract that pays hi...
Blog | October 06, 2009First Cup: Monday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...said. 'I didn't come here for any selfish reasons. I came here to win basketball games. I didn't come here for money; I've made enough of that in...
Blog | September 14, 2009Your Second-Favorite Team
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopNBA fandom usually begins with the love of a team. My love of the NBA, for instance, springs directly from a childhood spent listening to Blazer games...
Blog | August 21, 2009The Secret of Silk
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...right? Jamaal "Smooth as Silk" Wilkes was an elite player at every level of basketball despite weighing less than 200 pounds and playing a lot of forward. Wilkes won 88 straight games...
Blog | August 12, 2009The Back of the (Really Large Manila) Envelope Guide to the Las Vegas Summer League
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopPosted by Kevin Arnovitz Experiencing hoop withdrawal? If you've got 15 bucks, you can settle in for 55 Summer League games live from Las Vegas ...
Blog | July 09, 2009D-League Affiliations
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...that the Rockets have taken advantage of the new arrangement whereby an NBA team can run the basketball operations of a D-League team, without actually buying it. Entire list after the jump. 2009-10...
Blog | June 29, 2009First Cup: Wednesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...that gives them a 3-2 series lead over the Orlando Magic and thus ensures more spring basketball, more happy North End eateries and drinking establishments, and more general civic merriment." Mike Bianchi of...
Blog | May 13, 2009Monday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...really only supposed to fill in for an injured Mike Bibby. One thought about NCAA vs. NBA basketball: You notice all the college players wear the same shoes as their teammates? In the NBA, every...
Blog | March 23, 2009The TrueHoop Network Shootaround
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...On another note: why is the word invisible always used as a pejorative when it comes to basketball? There's something wonderful about blunt domination, but I can see the advantages of killing...
Blog | March 02, 2009Moneyball Comes to the NBA, Literally
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...Lewis is the king of writing about this kind of stuff, but has not done so in basketball. Until now. The cover of this weekend's New York Times Sunday Magazine is a Michael...
Blog | February 14, 2009

