Henry Abbott

Henry Abbott

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Henry Abbott founded TrueHoop, the preeminent NBA blog, in May 2005. Less than two years later, the TrueHoop posts and comments total nearly three million words, and TrueHoop has become part of ESPN.com, where Henry is a Senior NBA Writer.

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Hitting the Road

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Now that the Nuggets have made a trade to threaten the Blazers' playoff spot, I have decided to head for the hills to consider things. Or at least tra...

Blog | November 03, 2008

Renardo Sidney and Basketball's Bad Conscience

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...Renardo Sidney as a lens through which to view American basketball development. Well worth the read. Many TrueHoop regulars -- from lawyer Michael McCann to trainer Brian McCormick -- are cited. Here's a favorite passage: He...

Blog | November 03, 2008

Monday Mini-Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

The Painted Area, with tidy diagrams and everything, breaks down the new ways LeBron James is working in Cleveland's rejuvenated offense: "The stagnan...

Blog | November 03, 2008

Joe Dumars Strikes Again

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Allen Iverson, a Piston. And that's just one of the major assets Joe Dumars is acquiring today. The other is the inside track on "The Summer of LeBron...

Blog | November 03, 2008

Monday: First Cup

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Mitch Lawrence of the New York Daily News: "But if the Knicks are really looking to change the culture and move past the Isiah Thomas era, then Jim Do...

Blog | November 03, 2008

Friday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Drew Gooden is my kind of guy: Hair thinning to the point of having to shave the whole dome. Lang Whitaker of SLAM spills the beans that Gooden's mach...

Blog | October 31, 2008

Superstar Teammates, and Now Friends Too

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Even when Greg Oden was out of the picture last season, recovering from microfracture knee surgery, the Blazers were one of the NBA's happiest stories...

Blog | October 31, 2008

First Cup: Friday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Marc Berman of the New York Post: "With some in the Garden crowd surprisingly chanting 'We Want Steph" with 11:10 remaining in the fourth (others booe...

Blog | October 31, 2008

Everybody Wants to Find a Team to Move to Seattle

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

They have talked about the Grizzlies or the Hornets or whichever team seems to be losing money at that moment. SportsNation user osubeavs721 has ...

Blog | October 30, 2008

David Thorpe: Trouble Signs for Greg Oden

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...ought to consider nonetheless. For Blazer fans, reading this will be like taking your medicine. Tastes bad: Henry, I was thinking a bit about the latest Oden situation, and was left wondering about what players...

Blog | October 30, 2008

Thursday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

In the print version of today's New York Times (but not online that I can find) Howard Beck recounts one of the greatest conversations in Italian NBA ...

Blog | October 30, 2008

The NBA All-Skinny Team

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...T.J. Ford, Trevor Ariza, Shaun Livingston, Chris Douglas-Roberts, Devin Harris, and Chris Andersen. UPDATE: A TrueHoop reader/stat geek, John, has offered to lay a formula on all of this. He'll factor...

Blog | October 30, 2008

An Injury Expert on Greg Oden's MRI

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Yesterday we learned about foot injuries, generally, in big men, from ESPN.com injury expert Stephania Bell. She is a physical therapist who is a Boar...

Blog | October 30, 2008

First Cup: Thursday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Mike Bresnahan of the Los Angeles Times: "They're off to a good start in their first back-to-back effort, taking a 117-79 victory Wednesday over the C...

Blog | October 30, 2008

Even Though Baron Davis is Gone

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

The Warriors still have the most expensive hot dogs in the NBA.

Blog | October 29, 2008