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
NBA Preview: A question for every NBA team - Pacific Division
By Erik Ong ( @FantasyHoopla ) This NBA preview for the Pacific Division was written before the season, but unfortunately, Hurricane Sandy affected its timely publication. Regardless, the NBA season is still young enough to...
Culture of Hoops
Houston? You still have a problem with James Harden
My world was rocked, pre-Hurricane Sandy, when I read that the unlikely deal that could send James Harden to the Houston Rockets had actually come to fruition. Oklahoma City Thunder fans, I feel for you....
Culture of Hoops
The Starting 5: NBA Breakout Players of 2012-13
With the first full season of NBA in over a year nearly upon us, punditry of nerds with little better to do than clacking away feverishly on their laptops is reaching heights unseen since the...
Culture of Hoops
Runnin' The Weave: Continuing to Climb
With fantasy basketball draft days, as well as the NBA's opening day rapidly approaching, I want to stay following the arrow pointing up and continue biggin' up the players who have seen their respective value...
Culture of Hoops
Jeremy Evans owns Ronny Turiaf: ridiculous block and dunk
The last slam dunk contest during NBA All-Star Weekend was a dud. Just horrendous. It really needs to get some stars back in it to make it exciting again. I mean, the Utah Jazz's Jeremy...
Culture of Hoops
New York Knicks on the brink of a make-or-break season?
With opening day of the 2012-2013 NBA season lurking, I felt it would behoove me to broach a few queries...and at the same time attempt to provide an unbiased answer to said queries. What the...
Culture of Hoops
Runnin' The Weave: Improving Their Verticals
Doing your research and homework to be as prepared as possible for draft day is important. What is also imperative is adjusting throughout. I have posted ranking columns as well as columns specifying strategies, which...
Culture of Hoops
Brian Scalabrine explains the Black Mamba and White Mamba
Understandably, it's difficult to sometimes really know the difference between the black mamba and white mamba other than color. Luckily for all of us, Brian Scalabrine, a member of the white mamba family, takes time...
Culture of Hoops
Spain basketball team destroy Olympic Village apartments after loss to Team USA
The Spain basketball team apparently hated losing for the second straight Olympics to Team USA in a relatively close manner. Considering all of the tension and drama of the gold medal basketball games, sometimes you...
Culture of Hoops
Stan Van Gundy insinuates David Stern and ESPN were in cahoots
The story for Stan Van Gundy and ESPN goes a little something like this. Van Gundy, thought he had a job, joining the NBA Countdown team of analysts. However, ESPN later said the following to...
