First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopRonald Tillery of The Commercial-Appeal: "Grizzlies center Hamed Haddadi, the first NBA player from Iran, and Omri Casspi, the first Israeli player in...
Blog | November 24, 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, 2009First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopMike Monroe of the San Antonio Express-News: "Since we entered the new millennium, only one player has won the NBA's Most Valuable Player Award, ...
Blog | May 05, 2009Playoff Warmup Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopLeaguewide Bullets These bullets would be a lot better, but I could not stop watching this. If that doesn't give you playoff fever, nothing will...
Blog | April 17, 2009The Deep End of the Rotation: Assessing Playoff Benches
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopPosted by Kevin Arnovitz You know the sequence well: It's the start of the second quarter in a pivotal playoff game. We see repeated camera shots ...
Blog | March 16, 2009NBA: No Bodies Available
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopPosted by Kevin Arnovitz The playoff run is heating up. It's a fan's dream, with top teams in both conferences jockeying for position with the...
Blog | March 09, 2009First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopRamona Shelburne of the Los Angeles Daily News: "He started, then stopped. The words wanting to come out of his mouth, but stopping short on the ...
Blog | January 20, 2009First Cup: Thursday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopDave Feschuk of the Toronto Star: "Bryan Colangelo, the Raptors GM, and Sam Mitchell, the deposed coach, saw almost everything differently. But perhap...
Blog | December 04, 2008First Cup: Wednesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...it was Falk, who formerly was the most powerful agent in the world back when his client Michael Jordan was winning championships." Gwen Knapp of the San Francisco Chronicle: "Baron Davis knows that the fans...
Blog | July 02, 2008First Cup: Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...fans. It is better -- much -- when a team's high draft pick is smart. This one was. Beasley, a 6-8, 239-pound forward from Kansas State, is can't-miss, won't-miss, about...
Blog | June 27, 2008First Cup: Thursday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopLakers vs. Celtics Gail Goodrich writing in the Los Angeles Daily News: "There really is no other way to describe the Lakers' performance in Game ...
Blog | June 19, 2008First Cup: Wednesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...in the third quarter, here came those chants. 'You're . . . not . . . Jordan!' the fans sang, referring to Michael Jordan. No, clearly, at this point he is not." Gregg Patton of The Press-Enterprise: "With their...
Blog | June 18, 2008First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...different level of respect.'"Jan Hubbard of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "Kobe is due for his Michael Jordan moment. If the Lakers are going to stay alive in this series, it has to happen...
Blog | June 10, 2008First Cup: Monday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...championship in six games with the final game on the Celtics' home court. But he's not Michael Jordan, and he knows it." Leaguewide Robbie Andreu of the Gainesville Sun: "What seemed like a...
Blog | June 02, 2008First Cup: Wednesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopCeltics vs. Pistons Steve Bulpett of the Boston Herald: "Doc Rivers has been critical at times of Garnett's tendency to drift out to the perimeter, ...
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