Tonight was a light schedule in the NBA as it is the night before All-Star weekend which was a good thing for me as it was also Valentine’s Day – I don’t think my fiancée would have liked me looking at stats all night long so it was good to see that there were only [...]

All-Star weekend is just one day away, with the festivities starting Friday night with the celebrity game and rookie-sophomore game. Saturday night consists of the Skills competition, three-point contest and the dunk-off. Even though all these smaller events are fun to watch and very entertaining, most of the emphasis is on the big game [...]

Arturo Barbosa, Leandro Barbosa’s older brother, told me that if I wanted to find basketball in Pirituba, where he and his brother spent most of their childhood, I should look no further than Professor Carlão’s basketball practices. That’s where he, as a youngster, started playing and collecting information on the sport’s basics and fundamentals. Knowledge [...]

Welcome to a new section on HoopsAddict where fantasy hoops guru Brendan de Haan breaks down the top three fantasy hoops performers from the previous night. Feel free to leave comments in this post and look for another upcoming section where he addresses readers’ questions about their fantasy hoop teams which he receives through email.
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The Celtics have three of the NBA’s best players in Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce, but many question the rest of the roster. Garnett has missed the Celtics’ last eight games and during that stretch Boston has gone 6-2, including an impressive win against the San Antonio Spurs. Pierce and Allen led the [...]

Jazz is the only original American art form. And basketball is the only original American sport. Many white people only see basketball as a ghetto game. Many black people see basketball as a form of love. Jazz and basketball are our blue note reminders to those white people that they brought us here from another [...]

Chris Broussard was struggling to keep his “all-access to Shaq” card today on the Mike and Mike in the Morning Show. He actually said Bill Walton went too far in his, “Shaquille O’Neal’s arrogance is an insult to people who think,” statement about O’Neal. Rather than look at the statement and assess it, Broussard stammered [...]

This week’s Headlines from the Fantasy Hardwood includes the fantasy hoops stock report, a comparison between Gerald Wallace and Rudy Gay as well as a ranking of the top 10 fantasy ballers as of week 14.
THE FANTASYFANATICS.COM STOCK REPORT

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Andrea Bargnani – Power Forward/Center, Raptors

Remember this guy? He was a big-time sleeper pick, if [...]

“Shaquille O’Neal’s arrogance is an insult to people who think.”

That amazingly honest public statement was made by Bill Walton Sunday on ESPN’s Sportscenter. Sportscenter show host Chris McKendry – understandably – laughed uncomfortably and tried to verbally wiggle out of and around that damning comment.
I’ve had conversations with people recently about O’Neal and the stunning [...]

This past weekend was spent updating HoopsAddict.com but what you see today is only a glimpse into what things will look like once we finish all the updates. People reading this article on the site will notice we’ve unleashed a brand new layout which will incorporate videos and some other features which will result in [...]