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Monday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Kobe Bryant called Hakeem Olajuwon, and Mark Berman of MyFoxHouston reports on the tutorial that followed: "'He gave me the biggest comp...

Blog | September 28, 2009

Tuesday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...to Kobe Bryant. Dahntay Jones is a pineapple.  Royce from Daily Thunder: "Having watched college basketball basically my entire life, it's easy to assume [NBA players] don't [play hard...

Blog | June 16, 2009

Referees, Stat Geeks, NBA Veterans -- Surprising Things from the D-League

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

NBA referees are a non-stop topic of conversation among basketball fans. But ... anyone know where they come from? Since 2002, I learned just this morning, 100% of...

Blog | April 14, 2009

Wednesday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...senior year to play professionally in Europe."If that seems like one more sign of the basketball apocalypse, consider that many of the Europeans who populate NBA rosters began playing professionally as young as...

Blog | March 18, 2009

Every Team Needs a Kim Perrot

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...39;s a new one by Pat Williams, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen called "Inside Basketball." It has more than a hundred anecdotes from the likes of Michael Jordan, Barack Obama, Chris...

Blog | February 27, 2009

Thursday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Caron Butler is Tuff Juice. In some places, writes the DC Sports Bog's Dan Steinberg, Tuff Juice is also a shot of Bacardi 151 mixed with sports d...

Blog | January 08, 2009

Tuesday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...Udonis Haslem will be enough to win. Right now, it's not looking promising.The history of basketball sneakers, in about two minutes, from Nelly.Matt from Hardwood Paroxysm on different kinds of NBA fans...

Blog | October 14, 2008

Still Making People Mad: The WNBA

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

A couple of WNBA TrueHoop posts last week inspired a whole bunch of e-mail. The vast majority of them are not from the group of men I was really talki...

Blog | October 13, 2008

Monday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Beno Udrih makes Kobe Bryant fall over, which gets him almost enough good karma to overcome the play later in the game when he gave the Lakers a layup...

Blog | October 13, 2008

On Hating the WNBA

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...I had not mentioned one word of the WNBA finals. As someone who has enjoyed watching WNBA basketball in the past -- John Wooden has called women's basketball some of the best played in the...

Blog | October 10, 2008

You Didn't Watch the WNBA Finals Either?

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

On Monday, I linked to a post about how little respect the WNBA Finals were getting. In one paper, the tiny mention of their Finals was shoehorned nex...

Blog | October 09, 2008

Ritchie Knows How Gilbert Arenas Can Make A Lot of Money

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...it be compelling to see Gilbert Arenas play for them? Arenas can stick it to U.S. Basketball for sending him home and imagine the $$$ and marketing possibilities for him if the Chinese team starts...

Blog | September 04, 2008

Thursday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...of the logo and the color scheme, the main difference being the statue of liberty holding a basketball torch. Wouldn't the owners want to pick a more original color combination at least? Being a...

Blog | September 04, 2008

First Cup: Monday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...play a decent energy/defense role off the bench. But I don't believe he has the basketball IQ to be successful in D'Antoni's offense."Brad Townsend of The Dallas Morning News: "How...

Blog | July 28, 2008

Tuesday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

The newest issue of HOOP magazine has a great little tale about the Hawks having a team ping pong tournament. I was going to quote Al Horford -- who s...

Blog | July 22, 2008