By Ryan McNeill
This winter I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark Turgeon who at the time was the head coach of the Wichita State Shockers basketball team. When we recorded this interview the Shockers were riding the wave of being known as the huge Cinderella team last March in the NCAA Tournament and had opened the season 5-0 to earn a spot in the top 5 of Sports Illustrated’s college hoops rankings.
With the news breaking this week that Turgeon had signed up to coach at Texas A&M I thought now …

By Brian Taylor
What’s goin on hoops fam? Coming up with a “Hey” these days is getting more challenging by the week, but what fun would the game be without a lil writer’s block every now and then? So from here on out, yours truly, B Teezy, will welcome all suggestions for the upcoming “Hey” articles. Drop me an email at brianptaylor1911@yahoo.com, spammers will be shot on sight. If you have a good suggestion, my panel of judges (read: “me at the office”) will decide who gets profiled for the …

By Ryan McNeill
This Hoops Addict Podcast is an interview with the director of the basketball documentary “With This Rock.” I was able to chat with Emmanuel White about why he chose to document the basketball scene in Flint, the emergence of the super athlete in Flint and Emmanuel gives listeners the inside scoop on the controversy that involved Morris Peterson during his time at Michigan State.
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By Ryan McNeill
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with former NBA player Bay Forrest. While that name may not be familiar to a lot of basketball fans this interview is worth listening to because he had a lot of interesting stories about his basketball career such as turning down UCLA and North Carolina to play for a small Christian college with his brothers and being the first player to turn down a NBA contract to play amateur ball for a year.
Some of the topics that we covered in …

By Brian Taylor
So far this year, the one team that’s been kicking arse and taking names is Dallas, who has made a move to solidify their average frontcourt with the NBA’s version of Dick Clark. This is a guy who I saw along with the Human Highlight Film in Atlanta twenty years ago in the playoffs against Larry Bird. He’s a testament to physical fitness and he’s gonna go for one more ring in Big D.
I’m talking about Willis, Kevin Willis.

By Ryan McNeill
This week I was able to chat with Christopher Bibey about his book “Open Your Heart With Basketball” and how his life changed after he was diagnosed with cancer during his freshman season of college basketball.
During this chat we also talked about what motivated him to write about all the highs and lows that he experienced while playing basketball, how his struggles as a basketball player in high school helped him build the character and perseverance that he needed to beat cancer, he explained how he was able …