Every Monday during the NBA season The Hoops Manifesto and its Bloguin bredren team up to answer some of the burning questions from the world of the NBA. In this edition we decide if it is ok for players to be friendly with their opponent while the game is on, whether Dwight Howard is the leading MVP candidate like NBA.com posits and name which team's record is the most misleading.

Contributors: Jeff Fox from The Hoops Manifesto, Diego from Leaving It All On The Court, Philip from Orlando Magic Daily, Deborah Horton from Hawks Highlights, College Wolf from TWolves Blog and brumbygg and Don from With Malice.

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The Daily Dunk is a regular feature on The Hoops Manifesto where we search the many corners of the internet to find the best dunk videos to save you the time and trouble.  Consider it your one-stop shop for rim-rattling, death-defying, baby-crying, slam-jamming dunkerific fun.  Today's installment: Jeremy Pargo - International Ankle Breaker.

Former Gonzaga great Jeremy Pargo might not have made it in the NBA like big brother Jannero, but he appears to be having quite a good time in Europe.





Recent Daily Dunks: Bill Walker Crushes Andrew Bogut
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Every Sunday The Hoops Manifesto and Bloguin's NCAA hoops writers come together to vote on the four best teams in the country, our Fabulous Four, plus the best team from a non-BCS conference.  We present to you the Fab Four Plus One - because who has time to read a list of 25 teams.

Voters: Jeff Fox from The Hoops Manifesto, Flounder from Leftover Hot Dog, Philip from Rise Northwestern, Jordan from ACC Rivals and tallguy from The Beadlemaniacs.

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The Hoops Manifesto has teamed up with the best NCAA hoops writers on Bloguin to vote on our NCAA All-American teams after the first month of play.  These teams will be updated monthly going forward until the end of the college hoops season next spring.  Here's the 10 best players, in our estimation, at this early point in the season.

Voters: Jeff Fox from The Hoops Manifesto, fetch and tallguy from The Beadlemaniacs, Jamie from Suns Stuff't, Phillip from Rise Northwestern, Flounder from Leftover Hot Dog and Marco Radenkovich from Heels to the Hardwood (coming soon).

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Every Monday during the NBA season The Hoops Manifesto and its Bloguin bredren team up to answer some of the burning questions from the world of the NBA. In this edition we decide name our All-NBA Team after the first month of play, name our suprise teams of the early going and decide which player has the most awesomest hair.

Contributors: Jeff Fox from The Hoops Manifesto, Diego from Leaving It All On The Court, Aaron Hodges, Peaceman and LIVES from Knicks Fanatics, Philip from Orlando Magic Daily, Deborah Horton from Hawks Highlights, and brumbygg and Don from With Malice.

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Every Sunday The Hoops Manifesto and Bloguin's NCAA hoops writers come together to vote on the four best teams in the country, our Fabulous Four, plus the best team from a non-BCS conference.  We present to you the Fab Four Plus One - because who has time to read a list of 25 teams.

Voters: Jeff Fox from The Hoops Manifesto, Flounder from Leftover Hot Dog, Philip from Rise Northwestern, Jordan from ACC Rivals, Marko Radenovich from Horns to the Hardwood (coming soon) and Jamie D. Gilkey from Suns Stuff't. 

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The Daily Dunk is a regular feature on The Hoops Manifesto where we search the many corners of the internet to find the best dunk videos to save you the time and trouble.  Consider it your one-stop shop for rim-rattling, death-defying, baby-crying, slam-jamming dunkerific fun.  Today's installment: 2010/11 Top High School Dunks (so far)


Too be young again and able to jump.  Actually, who are we kidding - most of us couldn't jump like these kids can even when we were young.  Enjoy the top high school dunks from the early 2010/11 action, courtesy of Hoopmixtape

Recent Daily Dunks: Bill Walker Crushes Andrew Bogut, Derrick Rose (WOW!).
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The fact that the AAU/grassroots basketball world is a corrupt cesspool is no shock to anyone.  However, that doesn't make Pulitzer Prize winning author George Dohrmann's book, Play Their Hearts Out, any less compelling or eye-opening.  Dohrmann "embeds" himself with a team of nine-year-old's playing AAU basketball in California, including "can't-miss" NBA prospect Demetrius Walker, and follows the team through their complete AAU lifespan - eight years in total.  The results are fascinating, sickening, maddening and enlightening, all at the same time.

Other than Walker (who, since you probably haven't heard of him, wasn't as "can't-miss" as originally advertised), the book centers around his coach, Joe Keller.  As clueless as he is in basketball fundamentals and strategy, he's just as slick as a salesman, recruiter and all-around sleazy guy.  Plenty of familiar names make an appearance throughout the book's 422 pages, including NBA players Tyson Chandler and Tyreke Evans, as well as big wigs at the major shoe companies, Nike, adidas and Reebok.  Because, as Dohrmann reveals to all, that is what AAU/grassroots basketball is all about - shoe companies making money off of children.  And Coach Joe, as time will show, isn't above selling his kids to the devil.

But enough giving away all the book's secrets.  It's an extraordinary book that should be on all basketball fan's wish list.  And you can grab a copy here:




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Every Monday during the NBA season The Hoops Manifesto and its Bloguin bredren team up to answer some of the burning questions from the world of the NBA. In this edition we decide if the Spurs are a legit title contender, who's performance is the biggest surprise, the Cavs or the Warriors, and whether Kevin Love can keep up his torrid rebounding pace.

Contributors: Jeff Fox from The Hoops Manifesto, Diego from Leaving It All On The Court, Aaron Hodges and Peaceman from Knicks Fanatics, Philip from Orlando Magic Daily, Deborah Horton from Hawks Highlights, Don from With Malice, College Wolf from TWolves Blog and Michael De Leon from Project Spurs


1) The Spurs have quietly jumped out to the League's best record.  Are they a legit title contender or has their time in the sun passed by years ago?

"They are definitely legit.  The Spurs are always my "darkhorse" NBA title pick heading in to the season, and this year is no different.  The most impressive part is they have dominated thus far with Tim Duncan posting the worst numbers of his career.  And while Duncan and Manu Ginobili are getting long in the tooth, more than half of the Spurs rotation players are still in their twenties, including Tony Parker." - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Every Sunday The Hoops Manifesto and Bloguin's NCAA hoops writers come together to vote on the four best teams in the country, our Fabulous Four, plus the best team from a non-BCS conference.  We present to you the Fab Four Plus One - because who has time to read a list of 25 teams.

Voters: Jeff Fox from The Hoops Manifesto, Flounder from Leftover Hot Dog, Philip from Rise Northwestern, fetch The Beadlemaniacs and Jamie D. Gilkey from Suns Stuff't.


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