Tuesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...Surely the definitive anti-elitist Raptors fan t-shirt. Remember Michael Lewis' famous cover story about Shane Battier? It was huge in my world. People talk about it all the time. It was meaningful...
Blog | November 24, 2009Thursday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...Kevin Garnett. How To Cross Someone Over, by Tim Hardaway. How To Take A Charge by Shane Battier. How To Shoot A Free Throw, by Chauncey Billups. How To Read A Defense, by Chris...
Blog | November 19, 2009Shane Battier, King of the Quad
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...to people about how they liked Duke. So we're out there throwing the football and Shane Battier and Chris Duhon walk out onto the quad and start throwing a wiffleball back and forth...
Blog | November 17, 2009It wasn't Shane Battier
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...go with three assists and three steals. Kobe Bryant had a long night, but this time Shane Battier had little to do with it. (Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images) The Rockets feature a...
Blog | November 16, 2009First Cup: Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopJohn DeShazier of The Times-Picayune: "Byron Scott getting shoved out the door nine games into his sixth season in New Orleans, and less than two full...
Blog | November 13, 2009Playing for good teams, having been let go by bad teams
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBy Henry Abbott Yesterday I asked for your help brainstorming a list of players who couldn't stick with bad teams, but went on to be major contribu...
Blog | November 10, 20092010 is the king of free agency, but 2011 is no slouch
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...free agents: Carmelo Anthony Tim Duncan Tony Parker Pau Gasol David West Caron Butler Leandro Barbosa Shane Battier Michael Dunleavy, Jr. Nene Kendrick Perkins Jamal Crawford ESPN's updated list of restricted and unrestricted...
Blog | November 05, 2009Tuesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBy Henry Abbott Kevin Garnett tops a list of NBA defenders, as measured by a Dean Oliver-inspired metric that extracts individual accomplishments ...
Blog | November 03, 2009First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBob Ryan of The Boston Globe: "The Celtics had to sign Rajon Rondo long-term, didn't they? He's far too good to be allowed to slip away, and what was ...
Blog | November 03, 2009First Cup: Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopDan Shaughnessy of The Boston Globe: "Big Baby got into a fight with a friend at 4 a.m., broke his thumb, and won't be able to play until at least Dec...
Blog | October 30, 2009Wednesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...of "Paddy on the Hardwood" and an English professor. But Jerryd Bayless (and Tim Hardaway, and Shane Battier, and many others) knows him as a ball-handling coach. This is Bradburd's nicely told...
Blog | October 28, 2009First Cup: Wednesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopJohn Gonzalez of The Philadelphia Inquirer: "In sports, as in politics, perception matters. Late last week in California, the perception was that Kobe...
Blog | October 21, 2009The Art of a Beautiful Game
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...enough. But this tour is all over the place. With Kobe Bryant in high school. With Shane Battier, strategizing in the locker room. On the practice court with Steve Kerr. On the free throw...
Blog | October 20, 2009Wayne Winston: Mark Cuban's Stats Expert Isn't Bashful, Part 3
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopWayne Winston is a professor at Indiana University and for the last nine years he has been Mark Cuban's stat guru for the Dallas Mavericks. Winsto...
Blog | October 02, 2009First Cup: Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...we did before because we don't have the personnel.' Until then, McGrady and Shane Battier, who is out until next week at the earliest, do offer two more voices at the...
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