By Brian Taylor
In the early 90’s, the “B.T.” (Before Tim) San Antonio Spurs were more or less recognized by two outstanding players. One was “the Admiral”, David Robinson, and the other was a smooth shooting swingman, one Sean Michael Elliott. Before Duncan took the “big man’s torch” from David, the San Antonio Spurs were always [...]
By Ryan McNeill
While searching through Chapters last month a book that caught my attention was Darcy Frey’s “The Last Shot” because it featured an in-depth look at Stephon Marbury’s high school career. While the feature on Marbury’s high school career motivated me to read this book the insight into the perils and pitfalls that await [...]
By Ryan McNeill
This week I was sent an email from Warner Bros about the new basketball DVD they are releasing called “NBA Street Series Vol. 4 DVD.” According to this email the new DVD features the 2003 NBA Draft class and they provided me a couple of amazing video clips from this DVD. While I’m [...]
In the past month, various media types have been discussing how boring all-star festivities have become. For example, Peter Schrager of FoxSports.com suggested changing the current NBA All-Star Game format to a multi-team tournament. Their brainstorming prompted me to survey my fellow basketbloggers for their thoughts on the annual b-ball event - Did they want [...]
By Brian Taylor
This past Saturday we all got to enjoy the dunk-tastic stylings of some of today’s high-flyers; New York’s Nate Rob (who would’ve been a basketball legend if he pulled off the blackjack table/playboy dealer dunk), Dwight “Double-Double” Howard, and Gerald Green. In the desert, anything goes, including getting posterized, emasculated and dunked out [...]
By Brian Taylor
“Nineteen Eighty-Niiiiine”
That was the battle cry that year from hip-hop legends Flava Flav and Chuck D. “Fight the Power”, “Do The Right Thing” and Mars Blackmon were in full effect. That year was one of college basketball’s best, with Dikembe and Zo’ being diaper dandies at G-Town, the Rick Fox/J.R. Reid Tar Heels [...]
By Brian Taylor
Lately, the Pacific Northwest hasn’t been too kind to NBA basketball. The Portland Trailblazers are trying to buy their own house back, the Sonics may move to the OKC, and fans in Vancouver didn’t know whether to cheer or throw hats onto the floor after someone made three shots.
But back in the day, [...]
By Ryan McNeill
I gotta’ admit that I was jumping around my apartment and screaming like a teenage girl at Justin Timberlake concert when I found out that Dime Magazine had given HoopsAddict.com a shout out in their recent release.
By Ryan McNeill
A couple weeks back I had the pleasure of chatting witih Ohio State Buckeyes assistant coach Pete Gaudet on behalf of 5 Star Hoops. Pete has travelled to nearly 25 different countries to run basketball clinics, he won two National Championships during his time at Duke, was the intern head coach at [...]