Hooped Up

A new season is fast approaching and you need you know, nay — you demand to know! Who’s the best at each position in the league on a nightly basis in the ‘09-10 NBA season. So with your mind and excel sheet ablaze trying to figure out that riddle to no end. I’ve decided to take one for the team, by putting together a  list of the Top 5 players in the league by position heading into the ‘09-10 NBA season.

Up next and last , the point guard spot. Read More »

A new season is fast approaching and you need you know, nay — you demand to know! Who’s the best at each position in the league on a nightly basis in the ‘09-10 NBA season. So with your mind and excel sheet ablaze trying to figure out that riddle to no end. I’ve decided to take one for the team, by putting together a  list of the Top 5 players in the league by position heading into the ‘09-10 NBA season.

Up next, the power forward spot. Read More »

A new season is fast approaching and you need you know, nay — you demand to know! Who’s the best at each position in the league on a nightly basis in the ‘09-10 NBA season. So with your mind and excel sheet ablaze trying to figure out that riddle to no end. I’ve decided to take one for the team, by putting together a  list of the Top 5 players in the league by position heading into the ‘09-10 NBA season.

Up next, the shooting guard spot. if you’re expecting to see Kyle Lowry in this group, please visit my Bizzarro world site.

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A new season is fast approaching and you need you know, nay — you demand to know! Who’s the best at each position in the league on a nightly basis in the ‘09-10 NBA season. So with your mind and excel sheet ablaze trying to figure out that riddle to no end. I’ve decided to take one for the team, by putting together a  list of the Top 5 players in the league by position heading into the ‘09-10 NBA season.

Up next the small forward spot, if you’re expecting to see Danilo Gallinari in this group, please visit my Bizzarro world site.

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A new season is fast approaching and you need you know, nay — you demand to know! Who’s the best at each position in the league on a nightly basis in the ‘09-10 NBA season. So with your mind and excel sheet ablaze trying to figure out that riddle to no end. I’ve decided to take one for the team, by putting together a  list of the Top 5 players in the league by position heading into the ‘09-10 NBA season.

I’ll begin with the center spot, if you’re expecting to see Paul Davis in this group, please visit my Bizzarro world site.

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If you said David Robinson is a good dude, you would be 100% right. If you said David Robinson was a team player, you would be 110% right. Of course math nerds from all universe will now e-mail me and tell me that “nobody can be 110% right”, but they haven’t seen “The Admiral” play to see that impossible human effort math equal out.

For a guy that never really played basketball until his senior year in high school because getting an education was his first priority. Robinson blossomed into a Hall of Famer racking up 20,790 points, 10,497 rebounds, 2,954 blocks one MVP trophy and two NBA Championships.

Oh and by the way math guy, David Robinson graduated with a major in Mathematics. So e-mail him about my 110% theory and he’ll explain it to you.

After the jump, the Top 5 moments that defined the career of David Robinson.

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John Stockton spent his entire career as a the floor general for the Utah Jazz for 19 seasons. Sure he didn’t win a championship and ya, he wasn’t a fancy playmaker. But arguably, Stockton is perhaps the best point guard of all time with records that will probably never be broken.

Here are the Top 5: John Stockton moments that defined his underrated Hall of Fame career.

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I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. Magic Johnson is the best basketball player I have ever seen play basketball in my entire life. Yesterday, Magic Johnson who was named one of the 50 best players of all-time turned 50 years old and on Friday. NBATV will be celebrating the man that lead the Lakers infamous fastbreak for over a decade.

Today I’ll celebrate my favorite player EVAH, by looking back at the Top 5: Magic Johnson Moments of his awesome career.

Happy birthday Magic!

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For me when somebody says the beautiful game, I think of basketball first. It’s a game of constant motion and unique characters from every part of the world, and ten different things are going on all at once for 24 seconds at a time until the final buzzer sounds. The people that capture these moments with a camera, paint brush or pencil to me are  just as important as the refs, coaches and fans that give a NBA game life.

For me their are five artist that capture the NBA game and players exceptionally well and are the best basketball artist in the business.

Find out who and see some of their amazing work after the jump.

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Oh sweetest NBA basketball, it’ll be hard to accept that the season is over and basketball action is dead for a few months. And let’s not count the summer league and pre-season weeks, because that’s not basketball it’s punishment. However, I will accept free tickets to either (reluctantly).

Anyway, here are the top 5 plays of the NBA finals and you’ll notice how every single top 5 play was in the Amway Arena and only one of the five clips was an Orlando Magic highlight. Kinda sums up the whole series, don’t it.