Category: Culture of Hoops
This is Hardwood and Hollywood's section covering the culture of basketball, whether it be the NBA or amateur leagues, such as the NCAA, high school, and AAU circuit, we'll cover its top teams and players. We also focus on the culture off the court with fashion and kicks, in other words, the lifestyle.
Culture of Hoops
No virtue in self-induced failure
Hamlet's “To be or not to be” soliloquy is possibly Shakespeare's most famous verse; in NBA boardrooms a variation of that verse, “To tank or not to tank” entices NBA columnists to snivel blithely the...
Culture of Hoops
The new and improved Portland Trail Blazers?
“Humanity is won by playing in the face of certain defeat.” -Ralph Ellison Once again, it seems Rip City is trail blazing a path to mediocrity. Looking at the roster (which is pretty much complete),...
Culture of Hoops
Why the Orlando Magic should sign A.J. Slaughter
While most players looking to make an NBA roster still have time in the Las Vegas Summer League, others have already finished their tryouts in the Orlando Pro Summer League, where many players impressed, and...
Culture of Hoops
Sacramento Kings hierarchy starting to take shape
New Kings head coach, Mike Malone, is all smiles. With the addition of new Sacramento Kings President Chris Granger, the future of the Kings might still be on shaky ground, but at least the concrete...
Culture of Hoops
Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets trade made official
I hope you had your cameras out, because the Boston Celtics are not the Celtics of old any longer. In a trade made and agreed upon on draft day and finalized Friday, the Brooklyn Nets...
Culture of Hoops
The Boston Celtics: Five stages of grief
As a Boston Celtics fan still reeling from the recent implosion of one of the great Celtics eras in franchise history, I was finally able to acknowledge within myself today that I’ve fully gone through...
Culture of Hoops
The Past, Present and Future of Canadian Basketball
For many years, basketball in Canada has been mostly an afterthought, the little country to the North of basketball's greatest country, America. There’s no doubt in anyone’s minds that the United States has produced the...
Culture of Hoops
BMF Podcast 2: Entitlement and Titles
In this episode, DV talks about allegations of NBA players wanting other NBA players to link up and join where they are, or are going, to form a "Big Three" and what not ala the...
Culture of Hoops
Orlando Magic determined to buyout Hedo Turkoglu
If you have been watching the Orlando Magic NBA Summer League games, you will know that they have about six players who should play significant minutes on the team next season. Hedo Turkoglu, on his...
Culture of Hoops
Who's going to run this town? Knicks-Nets rivalry set to be the main event!
There are a number of different ways to cross the East River to get between Manhattan and Brooklyn. You have the iconic bridges, the Midtown Tunnel, and pretty much every subway line runs between the...
