Welcome back Hoop Ballers to our offseason International Spotlight feature where we will be taking a quick look at some notable players that successfully competed in Europe last year and will be making their bread…
Season Review: The Toronto Raptors Post-Mortem
The Toronto Raptors captured the first NBA championship in franchise history. Stuck in a precarious position, too good to tank and not good enough to pose a serious threat to the league’s elite, the Raptors…
International Spotlight: Mock Draft Edition
Welcome back, Hoop Ballers, to our International Spotlight weekly feature where we will be doing our yearly Mock Draft special for the NBA Draft that takes place in New York on Thursday night. As I…
Bruski Breakdown: 2019 NBA Draft
Don’t worry, if you blinked that was just the three seconds we all had between the best playoffs we’ve seen in a while, and now the NBA Draft is upon us. Throw in truly massive…
Hoop Ball’s 2019 NBA Mock Draft
The 2019 NBA Draft on Thursday night is slated to be one of the most action-packed drafts that we have ever seen. Expect a few trades to be made and some players to be taken…
Season Review: The Golden State Warriors Post-Mortem
The Warriors came into the season looking to achieve one of the most prestigious feats in the NBA, the three-peat. However, after playing through June for a fifth straight year, the team ran out of…
Season Review: The Milwaukee Bucks Post-Mortem
We need to begin this piece with yours truly eating five plates of crow. Last year I said this team wasn’t quite a contender yet after fading into the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference…
Season Review: The Portland Trail Blazers Post-Mortem
The Portland Trail Blazers finished the 2017-18 season just three games ahead of the 9th seed in the Western Conference. Their 49 wins also happened to be good enough to nab the 3rd seed in…
The Week Ahead: Anthony Davis Trade Edition
Welcome, Hoop Ball readers, to another edition of The Week Ahead! The Toronto Raptors are your 2019 NBA Champions! The Warriors finally lost and thus, the NBA’s competitive balance is restored. The Raptors won the…
Season Review: The Denver Nuggets Post-Mortem
After much discussion of their bright future with little concrete evidence to back the optimism up, the Nuggets finally arrived this season, winning 54 games on the way to a second-place finish in the Western…
International Spotlight: 2019 NBA Draft early entrant and…
Happy Friday Hoop Ballers! What an epic, amazing, heartbreaking and totally weird finale to the NBA season last night with the Raptors beating the Warriors and winning their first trophy ever. I really enjoyed this…
Season Review: The Houston Rockets Post-Mortem
The season didn’t begin the way the Rockets hoped it would and even though the journey was wildly different than last season, it ended in the same fashion – at the hands of the Warriors.…
Season Review: The Philadelphia 76ers Post-Mortem
A shot that seemed like it rattled around the rim for centuries was all it took to end the process that was the Philadelphia 76ers' season. In one of the most spectacular shots in all…
Season Review: The Boston Celtics Post-Mortem
Celtics fans, including myself, had one of the roughest seasons to deal with out of any fanbase in the NBA. Aside from the Lakers and Knicks, the Celtics saw their organization and season crumble the…