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The winners of the NBA draft's first day
It’s very difficult to predict anything, especially which NBA players will be successful. And I’ve been wrong plenty of times through the years. But if you’ve been reading TrueHoop, you know that I...
“The Knicks are super fucking smart.”
What did the Knicks just do at the draft?
The reigning champs came into the draft with the 24th overall pick. That was high enough to nab someone who had generated buzz coming into the draft, like super athlete Cameron Carr, 6-5 Spanish po...
Five reasons the Heat won't contend
A reader just sent me a TrueHoop article from three years ago. Hindsight is 20/20, but hell yeah the Bucks should have started the rebuild three years ago. But as we’ll discuss soon, it’s the Bucks who won the Giannis trade. Here are five r...
Not one sure thing in the 2026 NBA draft
It's so hard to succeed in today's NBA
DAVID: On Saturday night, my wife was visiting my daughter in DC. I thought I would put basketball aside for a few hours and have a cocktail. I turned on the World Cup.
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CEO. At ESPN Henry expanded TrueHoop into a blog network, digital video series, and podcast. Headed ESPN's NBA team. Relaunched independent TrueHoop in 2019.
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