First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...last summer intended almost exclusively to provide his new team salary-cap flexibility and position it for next summer's much-anticipated free-agency period. So with the Wolves losers of 13 consecutive games after...
Blog | November 24, 2009Monday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBy Henry Abbott Jeremy from Roundball Mining Company on the give and take of Carmelo Anthony: "Carmelo played two stellar offensive games against th...
Blog | November 23, 2009Gallows humor from Lawrence Frank as Nets again go for 1st W
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBy Chris Sheridan I want to hurry and get this post up before tipoff, because there's no telling if Lawrence Frank will even make it to halftime befo...
Blog | November 21, 2009The echoes of Eddy Curry
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...Eddy Curry, the good vibes that come along with that couldn't hurt the free agent conversation next summer. In the meantime, Donnie Walsh and William Wesley will be watching Curry closely, knowing they both...
Blog | November 20, 2009First Cup: Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times: "Making his season's first appearance after sitting out the first 11 games because of a hamstring injury, Pau ...
Blog | November 20, 2009Brandon Jennings' Progress Report -- Media Relations Edition
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...s post-game interviews with the media. Sure, Shenbaum was as dazzled by Jennings' performance as the next fan, but as a consultant who teaches athletes across the sports landscape on how to interact with...
Blog | November 19, 2009Sonny Vaccaro: Brandon Jennings broke the mold, part one
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...the NCAA. In no small part to undermine that rule (which he expects will disappear in the next collective bargaining agreement), Vaccaro played an instrumental role in Brandon Jennings' career. Jennings famously skipped college basketball...
Blog | November 19, 2009Sneaking a suspended player on the court in a teammate's uniform
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...As Galatasaray and its players face whatever humiliation is coming their way -- a decision is expected early next week -- one of the players who will endure that hard luck punishment is Darius Washington, who is...
Blog | November 19, 2009First Cup: Thursday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopMark Bradley of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "The Hawks won their 10th game of the nascent season Wednesday night. In 2004-05, this franchise man...
Blog | November 19, 2009Big step: Eddy Curry plays a little
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...trade him for an expiring contract (and the cap space to sign another top shelf free agent next summer). For Eddy Curry, the biggest player on the NBA's biggest-market team, any production is...
Blog | November 18, 2009First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopHoward Beck of The New York Times: "On a recent night at Madison Square Garden, the camera focused on Mike D'Antoni as he plopped himself on the bench...
Blog | November 17, 2009The next big trade? Here's a three-team possibility
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...expiring contracts. Dalembert is making $12 million this season and is scheduled to earn nearly $13 million next season. The Sixers, frankly, don't care who comes back in a Dalembert swap as long as...
Blog | November 17, 2009Ron Artest's baseline play
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...to put his shoe all the way on, and even then he was late to join the next play. So glad this game didn't finish with a close Laker win -- people in Houston would...
Blog | November 16, 2009The (new) latest on the Stephen Jackson trade front
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBy Marc Stein Stephen Jackson got unexpectedly close to one of the teams on his wish list late Sunday night when the Dallas Mavericks checked into...
Blog | November 16, 2009For Denver, a big win and big dunk
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...J. Mbenga. Lawson hasn't even pulled off a feat like that in practice yet. I say, 'Next time, I'm going to dunk on you. Or Kenyon [Martin],' Lawson said. But they don't...
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