Basketball Articles
While you are snug in your bed, with visions of sugar plums dancing in your head, The Hoops Manifesto is scouring the internet for all the hoops news you need to know. Here is your Hoops Headlines for Dec 12, 2001.
It's been easy to forget as of late, what with the lockout and the powers that be meddling in team affairs, but basketball is a beautiful game. High flying slam dunks, gorgeous crossovers, a beautifully executed give and go - basketball is an art form. So, with that in mind, The Hoops Manifesto is putting an artistic twist on your run of the mill NBA team previews: our previews for all 30 NBA teams will take the form of a haiku. Next up: Boston Celtics.
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Despite being making basketball kicks since 1917, Converse is often overlooked in today's crowed basketball shoe market. That should change with the release of their Holiday 2011 performance basketball collection, which includes the Converse DEFCON that I'm currently wearing while I type these very words (despite my 15-month-old's best efforts to steal them off my feet).
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It's been easy to forget as of late, what with the lockout and the powers that be meddling in team affairs, but basketball is a beautiful game. High flying slam dunks, gorgeous crossovers, a beautifully executed give and go - basketball is an art form. So, with that in mind, The Hoops Manifesto is putting an artistic twist on your run of the mill NBA team previews: our previews for all 30 NBA teams will take the form of a haiku. First up: Atlanta Hawks.
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(unfortunately Samaki Walker's NBA career wasn't as dope as his draft night outfit)
Now that the NBA actually exists once more, we can look ahead to next year's NBA Draft. The 2012 edition is expected to be a very deep, talented field as opposed to 2011's rather weak draft class. But who will hear their name called first by David Stern in June? Rather than fill cyberspace up with yet another mock draft, The Hoops Manifesto has determined the consensus top 60 prospects for the 2012 NBA Draft. We took the player rankings from four of the web's best: DraftExpress, NBADraft.net, CollegeHoops.Net, and Chad Ford of ESPN, crunched the numbers and came up with our list.
This order of this list will be regularly updated and we'll be adding player profiles for each player from now until next June's draft.
(What?! Release me?! Whatever happened to Peace at any price?!)
One unique and intriguing feature of the new NBA collective bargaining agreement is the "amnesty clause". It allows every team to waive one player from its roster and subsequently remove his salary from their salary cap total. While the player's salary really doesn't disappear - the team still has to pay it (assuming it is a guaranteed contract) - it does allow them to remove a bad contract from their salary cap total and potentially keep the team from paying the dreaded luxury tax or, if they are already under the salary cap total, sign another player.
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Every Sunday (or every other Sunday if we're lazy) The Hoops Manifesto and our esteemed voting panel come together to vote on the four teams with the inside track to play in the building pictured above next March, 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, Perry Missner & Ryan Curi from College Fantasy Hoops Insider, Kevin Cacabelos of Seatown Sports, and Cub Buenning from SLAM.
The Hoops Manifesto has teamed up with the best hoops writers in cyberspace to vote on our 2011/12 NCAA All-American teams. These teams will be updated monthly going forward until the end of the college hoops season next spring. So, after one month of action, here are the fifteen best players in the nation based on our not-so-humble opinion.
Another NCAA basketball season, another crop of highly touted freshman. Much was expected of this year's class of 18-year-olds, but have they delivered in the early going? Here are updates of the consensus top 10 freshman this season.
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As diehards of this site (Mom? Are you there?) already know, The Hoops Manifesto runs a College Dunk of the Year Tournament every spring. While we're a long way off from crowning 2011/12's champion, Kentucky's Michael Kidd-Gilchrist thought he'd make an early application into the tourney.
Other Dunk of the Year Nominees: Jeremy Lamb, Eric Griffin (MUST SEE!!), Olek Czyz. no comments
