Hooped Up

DeMar DeRozan and Eric Gordon met up at halftime of the Rookies vs. Sophomores game to see who would get invited to the dunk contest and with this bit of acrobatics. DeRozon won himself a spot into the big dunk show.

While the NBA is handing out invites, maybe Dar Tucker of the Los Angeles D-Fenders in the D-League should get called up for the contest too.

See what I mean after the jump.

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It was Italian heritage night at Madison Square Garden and if this alley-oop from Jose Calderon to DeMar DeRozan could speak, it would say “buongiorno principessa!”.

Bellissimo!

I don’t want to say that this underhanded alley-oop from Hedo Turkoglu to DeMar DeRozan was the play of the year, but when the season is all said and done. This play should be a Top 10 plays of the yer chart buster.

Until I saw this, I had no idea Turkoglu was that good of a softball pitcher.

Another van glorious season of NBA basketball is about to begin and Hooped Up does a quick and dirty preview of all 30 clubs.

The Raptors appear to be heading north as an organization, making few mistakes to improve their roster along the way. Cool handed GM Brian Colangelo had another productive summer adding Hedo Turkoglu, Marco Belinelli, Reggie Evans, Amir Johnson, Rasho Nesterovic and promising rookie DeMar DeRozan to the mix and on paper things look like they’ll improve in Toronto. Read More »

Gilbert Arenas is still probably a month a way from the Washington line up, but in the meantime the Wizards are sucking salt with the worst record in the NBA. Ya, the Thunder only have one win too, but that was more likely of a scenario than the Wizards current record of suckiness.  Still Arenas believes that finishing the worst can lead to being first.  

“I don’t want to see them struggle,” Arenas said. “But if this is one of those years where we don’t make the playoffs or we finish in last place … that’s what happened to San Antonio and that’s how they got Tim Duncan and look at them now … and that’s for the better.”

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With DeMar DeRozan and Brandon Jennings available in 2009, Gilbert might be right on the money with that thought.