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A look at the considerable pressure on Andrew
Bynum, the key to the Los Angeles Lakers' season.
A healthy Bynum is not only the key to their future, but their present as well. His play will dictate if the team can repeat their Finals run just as much as that of Kobe, Gasol, or Odom.
After being away at the cottage for a couple days earlier this week I was stoked to come back and find an email from Andy Lutzky of Press Row telling me that Hoops Addict has been nominated for the Press Row Access Awards for this month.
What’s the Press Row Access Awards? It’s a program aimed at helping smaller, lesser-known talent establish some credibility and visibility and ...
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There are many ramifications of Team USA’s return
to the top of the international basketball world this
summer. They brought the national program absolution from the debacle in Athens. The way they played together as a group, not a collection of ...
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After three rounds of voting and over 100,000
votes being cast, the final four participants left standing
in the Hoops Addict Floor Burn Tournament are Jason Maxiell, David Lee, Ronny Turiaf and Shane Battier. While the initial pool of 32 ...
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Prior to these 2008 Olympic Games, one of
the biggest questions surrounding the United States basketball team
was who is going to step up. Typically whenever a team is filled with players used to being “the man” on their respective ...
It has been quite a summer for Washington Wizards guard, Gilbert “Agent Zero” Arenas.
In July, on behalf of adidas, he toured China and the Philippines to push his new “Hibachi” shoe and to celebrate the opening of an Adidas Brand Center in Beijing.
Just two days after leaving for that trip, he signed a new contract with the Wizards worth $111 million over six ...
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Gilbert Arenas
Toronto Raptors
Washington Wizards
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Trying to determine what qualifies a player as
underrated in the NBA can be pretty tricky business.
Like the awarding of the M.V.P. trophy, you won’t find any shortage of opinions on what basis the player should be judged upon. Efficiency and ...
When the United States Olympic team defeated the Australian team 87-76 on August 5th of this year, there were some major concerns about the readiness of the team. Despite their victory, the United States went long stretches of time playing sloppy basketball, and they struggled to defeat a team that was without their best play, Andrew Bogut. After the first quarter of their 116-85 victory over ...
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Toronto Raptors
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As this summer unfolded and it became clear
that Roko-Leni Ukic would be Jose Calderon’s backup next
season and an uncomfortable level of doubt and concern began crept into Raptors Nation. After enjoying a highly successful point guard tandem ...
Have you ever wondered how a first overall draft pick spends a Saturday afternoon in August? If your first overall draft pick Derrick Rose you hang out at the new adidas Sport Performance Store in Chicago. The new store opened this weekend and Rose spent some time helping kids pick up some new kicks and signed some autographs.
The life of a first overall draft pick, you gotta’ love ...
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Derrick Rose
Toronto Raptors
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While the amounts of votes cast dipped a
little in the second round, the battle to advance
didn’t diminish. Four of the eight match-ups were decided by less than 20% while Shane Battier and Jason Maxiell continue to rip through all challengers. ...
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Josh Smith is a 22-year-old power forward with
four years of NBA experience, a record-setting setting pace
for blocks and enough highlight reel footage to start up his own multimedia empire, but ask the man himself what he really needs and ...
Last week’s Advanced Stats 101 studied two key defensive APBRmetrics in hopes of understanding how advanced statistics can propel the way we collectively think of defense. This week’s piece aims to shed similar light on rebounding, an aspect of the game that seems very straightforward but which careful consideration shows to be anything but.
It is apparent to any basketball fan the ...
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Toronto Raptors
The Toronto Raptors announced their 2008 preseason schedule which is highlighted by a game in Edmonton and hosting an international team (CSKA Moscow).
While countless Raptors fans were ecstatic at the thought of Rafael Araujo returning to the Air Canada Centre , this excitement will be squashed when they realize CSKA Moscow isn’t the Russian club which Araujo is signed with. Araujo ...
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Rafael Araujo
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Trajan Langdon
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Last week’s Advanced Stats 101 studied two key
defensive APBRmetrics in hopes of understanding how advanced statistics
can propel the way we collectively think of defense. This week’s piece aims to shed similar light on rebounding, an aspect of ...
This afternoon I was sent an email from The News Market informing they are now allowing bloggers to use their video clips.
Here’s a brief description of the company from the press release I was sent:
If you don’t know The News Market, we’re an online video distribution platform that provides free raw footage, b-roll, sound clips, images, and even some pre-cut narrated footage to ...
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Yao Ming
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Ben Gordon
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A big thank you goes out to Kristen
Wise from adidas for helping to organize interviews with
Josh Smith and T.J. Ford this weekend for Hoops Addict. You can read the interview Austin Kent conducted with Smith here and look for his interview with Ford ...
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Josh Smith is a 22-year-old power forward with
four years of NBA experience, a record-setting setting pace
for blocks and enough highlight reel footage to start up his own international multimedia empire, but ask the man himself what he really needs ...
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And then there were 16. After a riveting
opening round which saw over 70,000 votes cast ,
the 32-man field has been cut in half. There were some mild surprises (Julian Wright), some convincing wins (Jason Maxiell) and some close calls (Thaddeus ...
Just five days ago, in their victory against Australia, the United States basketball team was just plain sloppy. There were lapses in defense, extended stretches of one-on-one play and terrible shooting. Considering Australia was playing without their best player, Andrew Bogut, there was legitimate concern about how the United States would react against China when the games counted. ...
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Lakers Look for Young Star to Rise