I’m a homer. I can’t deny it, I won’t even try. But unlike most homers who follow their favourite teams through thick and painfully thin, my love is devoted, not to a franchise, but to a single player. That single player just signed a three-year contract with the worst team in last year’s NBA.
Stop for a second and try to defend a player who’s career averages cap off at 15.0 minutes and 5.0 points per game. Tough huh? But I’ve never loved Darko Milicic for what he’s brought to the …

The person becomes the persona until the persona crushes the person.
On the basketball court he is a lyricist like no other. His flows resonate so deeply with his audience that they are left gasping at the end of his show. In between, syncopated beats go well beyond the set 16 bars, sometimes shortened to 12, eight, and then in a moment when he seems to hang there while the world stops… the bars go on forever.
They hate his West Coast sensibilities. ESPN must stay awake each time he plays a …

This past Thursday night I headed towards Club Athletic Paulistano’s gym to watch the Brazilian U19 squad scrimmage against the Brazilian Pan American Games team in what was their last chance to have a friendly atmosphere on court. After a strong first quarter by the U19 squad (17-15), the more intense and calculated rhythm of Marcelo Huertas (Joventut Badalona), JP Batista (Rytas), and Marcelinho’s (Zalgiris) game took over. 
Coach Neto started Carlos Ortega, the Spanish-Brazilian point guard, Betinho, Thomas Melazzo, Rafael “Mineiro” de Souza and Paulo “Paulão” Prestes at the 5. …

Wow. In less than a week, the Jason Kapono signing has created a lot of controversy amongst many of the Raptors faithful. We here at HoopsAddict are kinda’ divided by the decision to sign him, but it seems that most of our commentators believe that there’s a high chance that this signing will work out.
Rather than further analyze this deal, I’d like to present a team picture of how I would set up the team. Granted, I know Sam Mitchell will have his own ideas, but let’s …

A friend of Hoops Addict, Ben, is organizing a charity concert in the Denver area, with benefits going to the Rocky Mountain MS Center.
Here are some details from his Music for MS blog:
My name is Ben and I’m working with three music students at the Metropolitan State College of Denver to put together a charity concert to benefit the Rocky Mountain MS Center.
The three students, Joe, Luke and Yoli, are all touched by MS through their friends or family and decided they wanted to do something to help those with …

Well, there’s one thing for sure about our team next year. We’re going to score a lot of points.
By adding the Miami Heat’s Jason Kapono for the full middle exemption, we can see that the Raptors have sewn up a scoring difficulty they’ve had at the SF position. As the premier 3 point shooter from last year, Kapono will be an incredible threat from 3 point land with Garbo, Parker, and Bargnani (not at the same time, probably, but at least 2 or 3 of the 4 at …