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This is an exciting season for sports: last week was the Super Bowl, this weekend we have both the NBA All Star Game, and the beginning of the Vancouver Olympics. Though, being from that region of Canada, we are much more excited about the former, we are also reformed basketball nerds and so more than [...]

When big centers dominated the NBA, the best dunks tended to be a little, um, underwhelming. Now that it’s all about small forwards and shooting guards again, though–Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, Vince Carter, etc.–we’re seeing some of the best dunks in NBA history. Hoop Doctors’ short but sweet Top 5 NBA Dunks of [...]

We never quite mastered the dunk–we could grab the hoop, but never got enough leverage to actually hold the ball and get it over the rim for a proper dunk. This is one of the great shames of our lives, and more or less the sole reason we didn’t pursue an NBA career. It’s their [...]

There are few things more spectacular (a really good block, perhaps) in a basketball game than a dunk that actually breaks the hoop. They occur fairly regularly, especially if you include all the various pro, college, high school and amateur leagues, but only a select few are truly exceptional. Brobible has assembled what they deem [...]

So Kobe Bryant’s L.A. Lakers will probably be winning the NBA Finals tomorrow night or, in the case of an Orlando Magic win, sometime early next week. In anticipation of the sure-fire pick for Finals MVP, and already crowned the regular season MVP, we pass along The Hoop Doctors’ vidsticle of Kobe Bryant’s Top 10 [...]

Today is the last Saturday of the NBA’s regular season, so for our weekly Sporty Saturdays post we’re looking at the league’s reigning superstar Lebron James, whose Cleveland Cavaliers will likely finish with the best (or second-best, depending on Kobe Bryant and the L.A. Lakers) record when the season ends on Wednesday. In celebration of [...]