• Theo Ratliff Signs with Sixers
• Boards and Bryant Push U.S. Into Semis
• Sixers make Iguodala's 6-year, $80 million deal official
• Spain Uses Big First Quarter to Beat Croatia
• Lithuania Ends China's Olympic Dream
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Yes, this is happening. I swear I’m not making this up. ESPN just flashed the news and it is official. Shawn Kemp is going to play in Italy. I don’t even know where to begin. Here, we’ve got an overweight 40-year old “former” crackhead and he’s going to be playing [...]

Pretty soon Barack Obama will be announcing his running mate and, from what we hear, he hasn’t made up his mind yet so HoopsAvenue wanted to toss a few NBA names in Obama’s direction. Ball Don’t Lie ran down Obama’s ‘NBA Dream Team’ cabinet 2 months ago and suggested Tim Duncan as Vice President, [...]

A lot of people didn’t pay much attention to Mo Williams last season and that’s understandable since he was playing in Milwaukee and in the shadow of Michael Redd and even Andrew Bogut, but that is all going to change this season now that he’s in Cleveland. This trade is huge for Cleveland. [...]

I saw this article on Yahoo! today and I couldn’t understand where Adrian Wojnarowski got the idea that Yao was basically being forced to play for China.  As far as any of us can tell, Yao loves playing for China, maybe even more than playing in the NBA.  In the 2nd paragaph of the article, [...]

After beating China handily 101-70 in their opening game at the Beijing Olympics, its time once again to assess Team USA’s chances at getting the gold.  A 31 point victory against an improved Chinese team is no doubt impressive, but Team USA also showed that it is not immune to the same problems that dogged [...]

The 2008-2009 NBA Schedule was released this afternoon and we’ve got it posted for you. Click here for the NBA Schedule.
Here are some games of interest:

October 28th - The defending champion Celtics begin their title defense against Lebron James and the Cavs.
October 29th - Not the most exciting way to start a franchise, but [...]

When I first heard the rumors that the Greek team Olympiakos was going to make a run at Lebron in 2010, I didn’t take it seriously at all. I figured they had no chance at luring James away who makes enough money to feed even Latrell Sprewell’s family here in the USA, but now [...]

Ok, calm down, this trade has not happened and probably won’t, but I was thinking the other day about what the Spurs should do to get back to the Finals and I came up with this biggie. While it doesn’t seem to make sense that the Spurs should trade away their franchise player, I’m [...]

Attention Fantasy Basketball players!
We are now only 2 months away from October 1st, the first day you can being setting your roster for your HoopsAvenue Fantasy Basketball team.  That’s the first day you can set your roster, but you can register today.  HoopsAvenue offers a unique fantasy basketball league and we’d love to have you [...]

On paper, the Rockets look like championship contenders, but, then again, this is Tracy McGrady’s Rockets and not Hakeem Olajuwon’s. With the addition of Ron Artest yesterday, the Rockets undoubtedly have one of the best trios in the league. Artest-McGrady-Yao, when healthy, probably only falls behind the Celtics trio of Allen-Garnett-Pierce. The [...]