Thursday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBy Henry Abbott Remember when Greg Oden and Kevin Durant first joined the league? There was a metric ton of hype. Then Oden was out for the year, ...
Blog | November 12, 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, 2009Tyrus Thomas Comes Alive
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...on 0-for-3 shooting, 2 rebounds, 2 fouls. He was outplayed by his potential replacement, Taj Gibson, whose shooting was off but who grabbed three offensive rebounds and was aggressive enough to earn...
Blog | October 30, 2009First Cup: Monday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopMike Bresnahan of the Los Angeles Times: "It will be debated and discussed for the next five years. Did the Lakers do the right thing in essentially t...
Blog | October 19, 2009First Cup: Thursday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopFrank Dell'Apa of The Boston Globe: "Kevin Garnett passed the alley-oop test in the Celtics' 106-90 exhibition win over Toronto last night. Garne...
Blog | October 15, 2009First Cup: Monday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopMike Monroe of the San Antonio Express-News: "If anyone thought him guilty of unearned hubris, he followed by punctuating his performance with a ...
Blog | October 12, 2009Monday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopMilwaukee coach Scott Skiles has a brilliant way around the NBA's ban on criticizing replacement referees: "A huge percentage of our fouls,&q...
Blog | October 05, 2009First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopRamona Shelburne of the Los Angeles Daily News: "Talk about a fast break. If the Internet reports are true -- and nowadays, we use the general te...
Blog | September 22, 2009The Eight Biggest Stories of Summer League
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopPosted by Kevin Arnovitz The Las Vegas Summer League is a lot like the Sundance Film Festival of the NBA. Whereas the pageantry of most NBA games h...
Blog | July 20, 2009The Other Side of the Tape
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopPosted by Kevin Arnovitz There's a long strip of yellow construction tape that cordons off sections 104 and 119 on opposite sides of the stands in...
Blog | July 17, 2009Day Six Summer League Roundup
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...just on the perimeter, but in Scola-territory along the baseline at 15 feet. The Alexander-Taj Gibson matchup was an interesting one and it was anything but a pitching duel. Alexander finished 9...
Blog | July 16, 2009David Thorpe Tweeting From Summer League
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopThe NBA's Vegas Summer League is halfway home. David Thorpe is still at it, livetweeting away his best basketball insights. You can pay to wa...
Blog | July 15, 2009The Back of the (Really Large Manila) Envelope Guide to the Las Vegas Summer League
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...the league with immense physical gifts, tremendous athleticism, but some question marks as a decision-maker. Taj Gibson The Bulls' other first-round pick, Gibson is another in a series of young, lanky...
Blog | July 09, 2009First Cup: Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopJim Souhan of the Minneapolis Star Tribune: "David Kahn either has ESP or ADD. Someday we will view his selection of point guards on consecutive ...
Blog | June 26, 2009Draft Hopefuls, Unedited
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...didn't seem that down. Sure, he questioned the wisdom of putting Keith Wilkinson in after Taj Gibson got his fourth foul (he suggested RouSean Cromwell or N'Diaye due to their superior athleticism...
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