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April 2012 was an epic month for tanking in the NBA. But now it's time for the playoffs, when losing is never beneficial. As we shift our focus from tanking season to the postseason, let's sum up. Here are 10 points from HoopIdea on tanking: ...

NBA teams have been tanking for decades to improve their draft position (and for other reasons), and NBA insiders have talked about tanking for decades -- in fact, over the years the NBA itself has recognized the potential for tanking and dealt with ...

Cameron Browne/NBAE via Getty Images According to David Stern, this missed call might end up changing the game for the better. Credit where it's due for this HoopIdea -- David Stern. Just a few weeks after the NBA acknowledged that an official i...

Why do we have flopping? Because it's rewarded. Because falling down gets you wins. How do we know? Because the league's most prominent floppers are a who's who of MVP candidates, All-Stars and NBA champions. No rules committee brought us...

Garrett W. Ellwood/Getty Images Action. Ball movement. Speed and creativity. Basketball at its best. Monday night the Dallas Mavericks demonstrated what HoopIdea is all about. In a word ... fun. The game flowed, back and forth. The ball moved...

In today's New York Times, Howard Beck digs deep into something Royce Webb has been pointing out since before Carmelo Anthony even became a Knick: Carmelo Anthony is no cure-all for what ails the Knicks. Beck writes: Anthony is breaking plays and...

On Monday I was in Bristol, and in the cafeteria at lunch things got pretty exciting discussing HoopIdea, and ways the NBA should change to make a better, more exciting game. Tim Duncan is essentially a perfect basketball player. But very few peop...

Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE/Getty Images Thursday at HoopIdea: Henry Abbott will reveal how to make end-of-game situations more exciting. Join us as we get going with HoopIdea, our engine for improving basketball. The motto: Basketball is the best ...

Nathaniel S. Butler/Getty Images Carmelo Anthony's homecoming has been a mixed bag of thrills, lousy chemistry and lots of losing.It's not complicated. Since the celebrated Carmelo Anthony trade 11 months ago, the New York Knicks have won 20 regu...

Gotta have a little fun during this dismal lockout. So last weekend we gave birth to FalseHoop, TrueHoop's goofy little brother. For now, it's still in diapers -- meaning it's only on Twitter. When it learns to walk, there's no telling where all ...

We're working on something new. It's called the Idea Machine, and it will be a way for you, for us at TrueHoop, and for others involved in basketball to bring ideas to a larger audience. Especially you. The Idea Machine will be unveiled in stag...

The trade deadline is Feb. 24, and that means the clock is ticking for the Denver Nuggets and New York Knicks to work out a deal to put Carmelo Anthony in Madison Square Garden. But this is one deadline the Knicks should blow. Here's why: 1. The 2...

A few months ago, I went to Bristol for some meetings and things. NBA editor Royce Webb invited me to a pickup hoops game in the evening, which was a lot of fun. Webb has a bunch of nifty ways of scoring the ball -- all manner of runners, leaners ...

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