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Monday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...people have freakish memories? For instance, they can count cards all the way through a game of poker, or rattle off every baseball player's batting average? Suddenly occurred to me that I'd love...

Blog | November 23, 2009

Stephen Jackson as a Bobcat: Crazier things have worked

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...could end ugly! But I'm thinking that when they get to the final table of this poker tournament, Brown will have some extra poker chips. The first is that Jackson has to be a...

Blog | November 16, 2009

First Cup: Thursday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "If the Miami Heat is being used for leverage when it comes to Lamar Odom's free-agent negot...

Blog | July 16, 2009

Ricky Rubio, Playing Minnesota Poker

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...badly he'd play for free. Now, instead of elite basketball, we get to watch elite poker. Bluffs, counterbluffs and gamesmanship -- perhaps, as sources suggest, with all parties: Rubio, his agent, and the Timberwolves...

Blog | June 26, 2009

Friday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

ESPN's Stats and Analysis group e-mails: "There are fewer fouls being called, but the average number of disqualifications per game has declin...

Blog | March 27, 2009

The Arnovitz Eight: All-Star Reform Done Right

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

TrueHoop's Kevin Arnovitz is in Phoenix enjoying All-Star Weekend as it is now -- and dreaming about how it might be. He writes: Of all the event...

Blog | February 13, 2009

Friday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...is out for two months with a back injury, he'll be playing a lot of poker, instead of basketball: "The only positive to come out of all of this is that I...

Blog | February 06, 2009

Monday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

The NBA has dozens of real stories of young people overcoming the most dreadful kinds of childhood, with brutality, gangs, a lack of parents, and the ...

Blog | January 26, 2009

Monday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

After trading for Jason Kidd, Mark Cuban wrote a fairly lengthy explanation of the trade on his blog. A New Jersey fan dissects it in hindsight, point...

Blog | November 24, 2008

Following Up with Haralabos Voulgaris

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Wednesday's conversation with gambler Haralabos Voulgaris prompted a lot of interesting comments and e-mails. An important one came from Voulgaris h...

Blog | June 13, 2008

A Professional Gambler's Take on the Tim Donaghy Scandal

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Haralabos Voulgaris leads a rare life. He's one of very few people -- Voulgaris estimates there may be as few as four or five  -- who have achiev...

Blog | June 11, 2008

First Cup: Special Lottery Edition

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "The Heat is there because it was very uncompetitive, going a league-worst 15-67 to tie for the worst...

Blog | May 20, 2008

Monday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

I'm on the road today, and will be blogging, but not on the regular schedule. Now, some bullets: The Save Our Sonics rally in Olympia got some nice TV...

Blog | March 10, 2008

Tuesday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...he will use ice and rest (no mention of surgery). This is a high-stakes game of poker. I hope he makes the right gamble. The Rockets -- who have started playing really well -- say...

Blog | February 19, 2008

Nerd Squad: The Tale of Quantum Hoops

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

There has been this documentary out there that I have been hearing about called "Quantum Hoops." Sounded really cool ... but there's almost nowhere yo...

Blog | November 30, 2007