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Henry AbbottTrueHoop | E-mailHenry 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. |
Monday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopKobe Bryant called Hakeem Olajuwon, and Mark Berman of MyFoxHouston reports on the tutorial that followed: "'He gave me the biggest comp...
Blog | September 28, 2009First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopElliott Teaford of the Los Angeles Daily News: "Pau Gasol broke his left middle finger while practicing with the Spanish national team in Seville...
Blog | August 11, 2009Thursday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopPosted by Kevin Arnovitz As of right now, the small-market Jazz are carrying at least $94 million (maybe more) in salaries and potential luxury tax ...
Blog | July 23, 2009The Other Side of the Tape
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopPosted by Kevin Arnovitz There's a long strip of yellow construction tape that cordons off sections 104 and 119 on opposite sides of the stands in...
Blog | July 17, 2009Tuesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopI was out of my office for 12 days of the NBA Finals. Before I left, I had planned to water the hell out the three plants that have been to my left, c...
Blog | June 16, 2009Congratulations to Candace Parker and Shelden Williams
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopFrom a Goodwin Sports Management press release: Candace Parker gave birth to a baby girl today at 11:29am. It is the first child for the WNBA MVP/ROY...
Blog | May 13, 2009Referees, Stat Geeks, NBA Veterans -- Surprising Things from the D-League
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopNBA referees are a non-stop topic of conversation among basketball fans. But ... anyone know where they come from? Since 2002, I learned just this mor...
Blog | April 14, 2009Wednesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopA respected Columbia professor disputes the findings that trailing at halftime makes a team more likely to win. Andrew Gelman's rebuttal is over m...
Blog | March 18, 2009Every Team Needs a Kim Perrot
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopYou have probably seen the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. There's a new one by Pat Williams, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen called &...
Blog | February 27, 2009Thursday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopCaron 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, 2009Tuesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...make the playoffs this year, and make a run at a title in a couple of years.TrueHoop reader Guy e-mails: "After seeing a few plays from [Rudy Fernandez] in the preseason game against...
Blog | October 14, 2008Still Making People Mad: The WNBA
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopA couple of WNBA TrueHoop posts last week inspired a whole bunch of e-mail. The vast majority of them are not...
Blog | October 13, 2008Monday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBeno 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, 2008On Hating the WNBA
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...that doesn't mean I can't write a long blog post about it!) A day ago, TrueHoop had a post about the WNBA. A reader named Sarah was nice enough to provide a list...
Blog | October 10, 2008You Didn't Watch the WNBA Finals Either?
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...about it. Making fun of some paper for dissing the WNBA, while effectively dissing the WNBA? TrueHoop reader Sarah stepped up to the plate and sent me the e-mail I knew I'd...
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