Basketball Articles
The Hoops Manifesto has teamed up with the best hoops writers in cyberspace to vote on our 2011/12 preseason NCAA All-American teams. These teams will be updated monthly going forward until the end of the college hoops season next spring. Here's the 15 best players, in our estimation, heading into the NCAA season, which tips off next week.
Forget about those millionaire players and billionaire owners fighting over how to split up the billions of dollars we've paid to them - real basketball is soon to begin once again in North America. The college basketball season is just days away, and with no NBA games on the horizon there are sure to be more eyes than ever watching the college kids ball. With tip-off just around the corner, The Hoops Manifesto presents its guide to the NCAA season, our "2011/12 NCAA Cheat Sheet", where we'll highlight what to look out for this upcoming year. Next up: Best Backcourt
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Forget about those millionaire players and billionaire owners fighting over how to split up the billions of dollars we've paid to them - real basketball is soon to begin once again in North America. The college basketball season is just days away, and with no NBA games on the horizon there are sure to be more eyes than ever watching the college kids ball. With tip-off just around the corner, The Hoops Manifesto presents its guide to the NCAA season, our "2011/12 NCAA Cheat Sheet", where we'll highlight what to look out for this upcoming year. Next up: Best Frontcourt
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As the NBA lockout rages on, more and more poor, starving, unemployed NBA players are fleeing overseas in search of work in order to feed their families. But how are these players faring in foreign lands? Here's our first update, featuring Andrei Kirilenko, Deron Williams, Tony Parker, J.R. Smith and Danilo Gallinari.
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One of the side effects of the NBA lockout is hundreds of NBA players with hours of extra time on their hands. While most players are spending their time on obvious pursuits (exhibition basketball games and/or charity endeavours and/or travelling to Third World countries to hock shoes - BORRRRRRRING!!), some are taking advantage of this rare abundance of free time to pursue more exotic undertakings. In memory of the "What I Did On My Summer Vacation" essays we all got to write in school, The Hoops Manifesto honours these brave players with our "What I Did On My NBA Lockout" feature. Next up: Kobe Bryant, Luke Walton & Danny Granger give back.
Forget about those millionaire players and billionaire owners fighting over how to split up the billions of dollars we've paid to them - real basketball is soon to begin once again in North America. The college basketball season is just days away, and with no NBA games on the horizon there are sure to be more eyes than ever watching the college kids ball. With tip-off just around the corner, The Hoops Manifesto presents its guide to the NCAA season, our "2011/12 NCAA Cheat Sheet", where we'll highlight what to look out for this upcoming year. Next up: Fab Five Freshman
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One of the side effects of the NBA lockout is hundreds of NBA players with hours of extra time on their hands. While most players are spending their time on obvious pursuits (exhibition basketball games and/or charity endeavours and/or travelling to Third World countries to hock shoes - BORRRRRRRING!!), some are taking advantage of this rare abundance of free time to pursue more exotic undertakings. In memory of the "What I Did On My Summer Vacation" essays we all got to write in school, The Hoops Manifesto honours these brave players with our "What I Did On My NBA Lockout" feature. Next up: Kevin Durant & Chris Bosh
Forget about those millionaire players and billionaire owners fighting over how to split up the billions of dollars we've paid to them - real basketball is soon to begin once again in North America. The college basketball season is just days away, and with no NBA games on the horizon there are sure to be more eyes than ever watching the college kids ball. With tip-off just around the corner, The Hoops Manifesto presents its guide to the NCAA season, our "2011/12 NCAA Cheat Sheet", where we'll highlight what to look out for this upcoming year. First up: The Super Sophs
It used to be worn like a scarlet letter, the equivalent of a big red 'REJECT' stamped on their foreheads. To be a sophomore college basketball player wasn't something that players strived for. The expression 'superstar sophomore' wasn't in basketball's lexicon. When the NBA instituted its age limit starting with the 2006 NBA Draft, it become very uncool to stay in college more than one year. If you were a superstar, you bolted for pro basketball riches after only a few months on a college campus. If you signed up for a second year of college, your game was considered questionable and suspect; you were damaged goods. Of course there were a few exceptions to that rule (see Griffin, Blake), but for the most part college coaches understood that they would only get to coach their star player(s) for one season. The college game became one dominated by precocious freshman. Yes, the veterans normally still ended up winning the NCAA title at the end of the season, but individually the 18-year-olds were the game's star attractions. no comments
One of the side effects of the NBA lockout is hundreds of NBA players with hours of extra time on their hands. While most players are spending their time on obvious pursuits (exhibition basketball games and/or charity endeavours and/or travelling to Third World countries to hock shoes - BORRRRRRRING!!), some are taking advantage of this rare abundance of free time to pursue more exotic undertakings. In memory of the "What I Did On My Summer Vacation" essays we all got to write in school, The Hoops Manifesto honours these brave players with our "What I Did On My NBA Lockout" feature. Next up: Baron Davis
Former basketball cult hero Adam Morrison has come out of hiding and is playing basketball again, this time in Serbia. And good news - he's rocking the hesher look again! And better news for him, he's getting standing ovations from the home crowd..... for fighting?!
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