http://assets.espn.go.com/i/tvlistings/tv_espn_original.gif en-us 10 ESPN Inc. http://espn.go.com/ Copyright 2010 ESPN Inc. TrueHoop has been investigating PEDs and the NBA all season. The next in a series: Thanks to Lance Armstrong, Bill Simmons and others, NBA fans are...]]> March 04, 2013 09:08:32 PST "Really glamorous, I know." Puking during workouts as an essential part of being an Olympic athlete. Strongly in favor of a real basketball world cu...]]> August 09, 2012 08:41:31 PDT Now that our celebrity athletes have almost no privacy at all, what do we, as fans, do with all that information? In a must-read Grantland conversatio...]]> June 07, 2012 10:39:16 PDT HoopIdea has a lot of roles. One is to attempt, as best we can, knowing darned well we'll fail constantly, to acknowledge, curate and promote the m...]]> April 03, 2012 08:56:02 PDT The executive director of the Players Association, Billy Hunter, is on the B.S. Report today with Bill Simmons. He said that as soon as his players sa...]]> October 24, 2011 13:43:40 PDT TrueHoop reader David created a chart of the two sides' collective bargaining offers to date. The other day, on Bill Simmons' podcast, NBA Commission...]]> August 25, 2011 04:35:38 PDT ]]> March 08, 2011 12:07:56 PST For the next couple of days, TrueHoop will be a hive of geeky activity. Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Cuban, Bill Simmons, Jeff Van Gundy, Daryl Morey, R.C...]]> March 04, 2011 04:21:17 PST Justin Bieber took the court in the All-Star celebrity game, and he was not the best player on the court -- he missed eight of his eleven shots, had s...]]> February 19, 2011 09:09:43 PST The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference will be in Boston March 4 and 5 this year (and they're boasting speakers like Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Cuban, ...]]> September 30, 2010 06:33:32 PDT The TrueHoop Stat Geek Smackdown is four years old, which means it's following roughly the same timeline as Daryl Morey's MIT Sloan Sports Analytics C...]]> April 16, 2010 08:09:56 PDT Brent Barry has been thinking about statistics. "Statistics," he says, "are like bikinis. They're really nice to look at but they don't tell you th...]]> April 07, 2010 06:41:40 PDT Saturday marks the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which is also commonly referred to as (thank you, Bill Simmons) Dorkapalooza. This c...]]> March 05, 2010 12:13:36 PST Bill Simmons, on All-Star Weekend in Dallas: We're standing with a young player who wants the night to keep going. The young player pushes to find an...]]> February 16, 2010 14:38:53 PST By Henry Abbott On his podcast, Bill Simmons once interviewed NBA Commissioner David Stern, and they had this exchange: Who's your favorite owner?...]]> November 24, 2009 13:58:27 PST