First Cup: Thursday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBrian Windhorst of The Plain Dealer: "Playing their most complete game of the young season, the Cavs looked like a cohesive, deep and tough unit in di...
Blog | November 12, 2009First Cup: Wednesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...He always has been at his best when he improvises. He would clash with his high school football and basketball coaches for missing practices, but they knew he would excel when it mattered. It was...
Blog | October 14, 2009Late Friday Mini-Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...I cannot believe the sense of entitlement among today's sports fans. Sorry, kiddos, but right...game of the week, maybe a Notre Dame football game on Saturday -- you've probably heard...
Blog | October 09, 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, 2009Magic and American Myth
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...because the conversation about race and the NBA today resides in a much different place. When LeBron...skimpiness of their uniforms compared to baseball and football -- but they had also become, over the years...
Blog | August 14, 2009Friday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...quot; is part of the story. If a substance is readily available to your local high school football team, why would we slap the hands of professional athletes for taking it? Well, as you might...
Blog | August 07, 2009Pay Them By the Made Free Throw
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopOn today's New York Times Op-Ed page...or commiserate with. Also, pro golfers, unlike baseball, football or basketball players, have no fixed salaries. They...
Blog | July 29, 2009First Cup: Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopRichard Justice of the Houston Chronicle: "Trevor Ariza makes the Rockets younger, faster and better. He fits with the way Rick Adelman wants to ...
Blog | July 03, 2009Anna K. Clemmons Remembers Wayman Tisdale
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopAnna K. Clemmons spent four days with Wayman Tisdale last year working on a profile of the musician, and former NBA player, as he battled cancer...
Blog | May 15, 2009Recipe for an Underdog
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...Apologies for shortage of posts today. The cold I had last week ... apparently has now spread to my computer.) Basketball is full of...
Blog | May 04, 2009Trickle Down Enthusiasm?
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...for now, in this short time, let me second Bill Simmons, who was convincing in one of today's early panels that a major problem facing sports is how expensive everything is. The people...
Blog | March 07, 2009Meet Your Blogger: Jeremy Wagner of Roundball Mining Company
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...the Nuggets' 2007 first round playoff series against the Spurs basically to vent. Fast forward to today and blogging about the Nuggets is just a part of my life. I cannot imagine not...
Blog | February 25, 2009The Shootaround
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...of Daily Thunder: "Everybody could feel it today. The Thunder were the talk of the town...not to talk about Blake Griffin or OU football. Nope. People wanted to talk about Kevin Durant...
Blog | February 18, 2009Three Thoughts About Danny Granger
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...of the planet. Now I've got the box set. She died in 1972, sadly. But today I learn from a HoopsTV interview that her great nephew is ... All-Star Pacer Danny Granger. 2...
Blog | February 11, 2009Regarding LeBron James, with Love from Cleveland
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopOn Monday, on TrueHoop, I invited fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers to e-mail. The idea was: The dialogue in the media about the summer of 2010 has a bi...
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