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Mark Warkentien's play-in tournament
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...with NBA teams vs. internationals at All-Star Weekend). It's also very similar to one that Bill Simmons has written about. This proposal calls for all the games to be played in four or...
Blog | October 29, 2009First Cup: Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopMichael Wallace of The Miami Herald: "Players and coaches said Alonzo Mourning already is having an impact in his new role as Miami's vice pr...
Blog | October 02, 2009Your Second-Favorite Team
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopNBA fandom usually begins with the love of a team. My love of the NBA, for instance, springs directly from a childhood spent listening to Blazer games...
Blog | August 21, 2009Late Thursday Mini-Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopMarc Stein and Bill Simmons are among those mentioning the Spurs as title favorites this year. Tim Varner of 48 Minutes...
Blog | July 30, 2009Thursday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...A status report of Mark Cuban's battle with the SEC. He's also on Bill Simmons podcast, and makes clear once again that he dips into his pocket to pay the Maverick...
Blog | May 28, 2009Kobe Bryant: Still Distant, After All These Years
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...personal excellence that he has not to date translated to his teammates -- except during Team USA. As Bill Simmons recently wrote, that appears to be coming back to bite him as he's raised...
Blog | May 27, 2009Wednesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...major road is closed. When people study traffic they call this Braess's Paradox. In basketball, Bill Simmons named it the Ewing Theory. It should be the same science at work." Great George...
Blog | May 27, 2009Malcolm Gladwell: The Moral Hazard of the NBA Draft
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...interesting e-mail exchange between Malcolm Gladwell and Bill Simmons (complete with Gladwell's tale of...nbsp; The consistent failure of underdogs in professional sports to even try something new suggests, to me...
Blog | May 14, 2009Tuesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...the TrueHoop Group of the ESPN Tournament Challenge. The same bracket had him tied for 158th in Bill Simmons' group. Which officially makes the TrueHoop group more user-friendly, I guess. This is a...
Blog | April 07, 2009A Question About Sports Betting
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopI know just about nothing about sports betting, but doesn't this seem to...the only people who have not yet read Bill Simmons' recent mailbag where he talked about...
Blog | April 03, 2009Duck and Cover
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopAfter watching a whole bunch of basketball in Boston, hearing from all kinds of basketball people in person, watching the Blazer game of the year, and...
Blog | March 10, 2009Trickle Down Enthusiasm?
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...day at the fabulous and intricate MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Too much to blog about, including...now, in this short time, let me second Bill Simmons, who was convincing in one of today...
Blog | March 07, 2009Meet Your Blogger: Jeremy Wagner of Roundball Mining Company
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopWhen Jeremy Wagner started a fledgling sports blog during the Clinton Administration, he had no idea that a spitball session with Mark Cuban would...
Blog | February 25, 2009The Arnovitz Eight: All-Star Reform Done Right
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...bore. All of this is frustrating to basketball junkies, because we know that the beauty of the sport requires so little orchestration. With the world's greatest basketball players on call for 72 hours...
Blog | February 13, 2009On Loving Layups, Which is Not Hating Kobe Bryant
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBill Simmons has just written about all the people who tell him he must hate Kobe Bryant. It...
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