Published: April 29, 2007
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 [...]
Published: April 29, 2007
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 [...]
Published: April 23, 2007
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 [...]
Published: April 23, 2007
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 [...]
Published: April 22, 2007
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 [...]
Published: April 20, 2007
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 [...]
Published: April 17, 2007
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 [...]
Published: April 16, 2007
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 [...]
Published: April 12, 2007
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 [...]
Published: April 10, 2007
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. [...]