http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/may HoopsHype.com NBA Blogs Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:34:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There still are some impressive names due to hit the free agent market next summer. We all know the Big Three: LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. But one individual with some lofty credentials deliberately removed himself from the inevitable, frenzied, open marketplace: two-time Most Valuable Player Steve Nash. His original, ... http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/may/2009/11/14/nash-still-defying-age/ There’s a deadline looming in Rajon Rondo’s mind – and it’s not the one about which most NBA watchers are talking. It’s not about a contract extension for the slick Celtics’ point guard, who is beginning his fourth season in Boston. He claims that doesn’t occupy a single minute of ... http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/may/2009/10/28/rondo-key-with-or-without-extension/ As we enter Michael-Fest this weekend at the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, hagiography is blurring history a little. Michael Jordan is the “The Best Ever.” ESPN The Magazine says so in a special Hall of Fame issue. The Chicago Bulls website says so. (You’d expect someone else?) Many, many followers ... http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/may/2009/09/11/russell-up-there-with-mj/ The spin coming out of the Twin Cities now is that Ricky Rubio has a chance to grow, mature, develop and play at a high caliber in Europe for the next two years before joining Minnesota in 2011. What, he couldn’t do that in Minneapolis? Of course he could and, if Rubio ... http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/may/2009/09/02/the-rubio-blunder/ Either you believe him or you don’t. Either Rashard Lewis knew what he was doing or was a hopeless naïf. You look at the body, and at the body of work, and you think that if Lewis did know what he was doing, then he didn’t do a very good job ... http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/may/2009/08/07/believe-lewis/ Watching Blake Griffin ascend the stage Thursday night at the NBA Draft, don a Los Angeles Clippers hat, shake David Stern’s hand and offer a wondrous smile to the folks in attendance and watching at home, seasoned NBA observers had to think: does this boy have any idea what he’s ... http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/may/2009/06/26/dont-hold-out-hope/ You have to wonder what Cleveland coach Mike Brown is really thinking when he goes over the game films of the Cavaliers series against Orlando. My guess is that the NBA Coach of the Year is uttering something along the lines of: “Where did my team go?” (There might be ... http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/may/2009/05/28/brown-looking-for-answers/ Can we make this one a best-of-nine? Can the Celtics and Bulls keep playing until Kevin Garnett and Luol Deng are healthy again, then do a best-of-seven? Glen Davis begs to differ. “We want to end this series. We want to be done with this series,’’ Boston’s self-proclaimed Ticket Stub said after ... http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/may/2009/04/29/does-it-have-to-end/ Joakim Noah is finishing up his second season in the NBA – and he still finds one of the hardest parts of his professional life to be saying one simple word: No. Kendrick Perkins is finishing up his sixth season in the NBA – and, by his own admission, he never ... http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/may/2009/04/06/the-power-of-no/ Can anyone keep the Lakers from their seemingly pre-ordained return trip to the NBA Finals? No one in the Western Conference is making the case in the regular season. The Lakers in the West look like the UConn women – a deadbolt lock. But we all know there is the regular ... http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/may/2009/03/07/challenging-lakerland/