By Ryan McNeill
This week I was on NBA XL talking about the Western Conference as part of their playoffs preview show. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the show it airs across Canada on Raptors TV and Rogers Sportsnet and the show attempts to “combine basketball, fashion, and music, while giving Canadians a [...]
My “NBA XL” Segment Is On You Tube
My “NBA XL” Segment Is On You Tube
By Ryan McNeill
This week I was on NBA XL talking about the Western Conference as part of their playoffs preview show. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the show it airs across Canada on Raptors TV and Rogers Sportsnet and the show attempts to “combine basketball, fashion, and music, while giving Canadians a [...]
Sun Yue: Prospect or Suspect?
By Jeff Wong
It’s great to be a Toronto Raptors fan right now. Thanks to General Manager Bryan Colangelo, the Raptors are NBA Atlantic Division Champions after five years of playoff futility. However, my beloved team has no first-round pick (a top-15 protected pick has gone to the Charlotte Bobcats) in a draft year that boasts [...]
Adrian Wojnarowski Interview
By Ryan McNeill
This Hoops Addict Podcast is a gem because I was able to get Adrian Wojnarowski on the show to talk about his national best seller “The Miracle of St Anthony.” Adrian writes for Yahoo Sports and his book “The Miracle of St. Anthony” is a national best seller.
For his book Adrian chronicled a [...]
The Soul Flow of DJ Irie
By Michael Tillery
During a trip to Vegas to cover Chris Webber’s Bada Bling Charity event, I happened upon one of the baddest DJ’s on the planet by chance. I was exhausted from having such a good time mingling and getting to know the numerous celebrities at Hard Rock Café’s Body English—from Nas and Kelis (Bossy [...]
Matt de la Pena Interview
By Ryan McNeill
This winter I had the chance to read “Ball Don’t Lie” by Matt de la Pena and it instantly become one of my favourite books. The development of Sticky was so riveting that I found myself staying up past midnight reading it because I couldn’t put the book down and I found myself [...]
Scouting Report on Brad Newley
By Tom Minear
The NBA Draft is only a couple of months away and everyone has their own opinion of who should go number one, which team needs what and so on, but we won’t know anything for sure until David Stern starts to read out names at Madison Square Garden. Some of the best predictions [...]
Hey! Whatever Happened To Oliver Miller?
By Brian Taylor
This goes out to both Ryan and my man Rashad who must have ESP, because both requested this one.
Welcome back Hoops Addicts for another spine-tingling edition of “Hey! Whatever Happened To.” I’m your host B Teezy and this week we’ll be looking at a classic example of how NOT taking care of your [...]
Rus Bradburd Interview
By Ryan McNeill
For this Hoops Addict Podcast I had the chance to chat with Rus Bradburd about his book “Paddy on the Hardwood.” Rus has coached alongside two of the top coaches in the history of college hoops in Lou Henson and Don Haskins (who the movie Glory Road was based on) but he got [...]
Marcus Davenport Interview
By Ryan McNeill
For this Hoops Addict Podcast I was able to secure an interview with Marcus Davenport to talk about his independent basketball documentary Flint Star. Some of the things that we talked about were his reasons for creating this documentary, what the documentary is about, why he chose to document the Flint basketball community [...]