Inside Hoops Blog

So I don't know how many of you keep up regularly with the NBA but if you do then you'll know that free agency started on July first and if you don't you have probably still heard about free agency since its that big of a deal in the sports world. I won't get into too much detail on free agency since that isn't the point of the post but it is the time of the year when players whose contracts are up get a chance to pick where they want to play if a team can afford to sign them, its like a holiday for us basketball nuts.

The point of the article is to highlight a particular blog that I frequently go to for my NBA news. I am an NBA fanatic to say the absolute least, I love watching all the games and keeping up to date with all the possible NBA news I can. That is why I wanted to let everyone know about InsideHoops, InsideHoops is where I go to get all the information that isn't put out in places likes ESPN. InsideHoops writers are all true NBA insiders who write professionally on the NBA outside of the blog. They talk about EVERYTHING in the NBA, which means now a good majority of posts are about free agency and the upcoming summer league, but even during the season they talk about much much more they you might not find out about anywhere else.

If you are as much as an NBA nut as I am or are just getting into it I highly recommend to go check out the InsideHoops blog, the link to the blog is located right here.

This Weeks Post Recap

It was a pretty successful week for the Basketball Knowledge and Facts blog, if I do say so myself. So far I have really enjoyed myself on this blog and I wanted to use this post as a recap of this weeks posts, which was only about 7 of them, but 7 good posts i'd like to believe.

I am going to list the posts of the week, starting with the oldest and work my way down to the newer ones, and give a brief recap on the topic and what was talked about, so lets get right into it.

The 5 Positions of A Basketball Team (6/22/15)
This was a fun one for me. Not a lot of people really think about the 5 different positions much anymore since the game has changed and players of varies sizes have the skills of more than one position and are often interchangeable. I listed each position and gave a fairly brief description of the position. The 5 positions were; Point Guard (PG), Shooting Guard (SG), Small Forward (SF), Power Forward (PF), and Center (C).

Stronger Team Blog (6/22/15)
For this one I just highlighted for you my favorite basketball blog on the internet, which is the Stronger Team blog written by Alan Stein. It covers every aspect of basketball, including drills, player interviews and ways to improve as both a coach and a player.

Alan Stein's Q & A With Los Angeles Clippers' Chris Paul (6/23/15)
Here, instead of highlighting the entire Stronger Team blog, I highlighted one of my favorite and more recent posts on the blog. It was a Q & A Alan did with Chris Paul, the starting point guard for the Los Angeles Clippers, regarding his experience with training.

Book Review: Father First (6/24/15)
I am not a very big book reader (I prefer articles and blogs) but this was a great book. Written by Miami Heat shooting guard, it talks about the struggles he has faced through his life and how he fought to gain sole custody of his 2 sons.

Nike Elite Championship Airlock Official Basketball (6/24/15)
As a basketball player, having a good basketball is essential. So for this post I recommended my absolute favorite basketball to play with, the Nike Elite Championship Airlock Official Basketball.

Basketball Knowledge and Facts (6/25/15)
This one was just to reiterate the whole purpose of this blog.

3 More Ways To Maximize Every Practice (6/25/15)
I read the post, 8 Ways To Maximize Every Practices, way back when I was just coming into high school and I thought it was important enough to share, plus add 3 of my own ways to maximize every practice.

Basketball Knowledge and Facts

I want to take a little time and use this post to reiterate, or for those who may be newer to this blog, the whole point of my blog Basketball Knowledge and Facts.

The entire purpose when I started this blog was to help people who know nothing about basketball learn and for those who know some or for those know a lot to be able to come and just read and touch up on varies aspects that they may not know at all or know little a bit about. I think the mission statement does a very good job of summing that up, "Here to help you learn and understand the wonderful game of basketball.", for those of you that haven't seen it. I have tried to incorporate a wide variety of different materials encompassing every aspect of the game such as history, technique and how to's from my own personal experiences and from others who I believe are very insightful individuals within the basketball world. I believe that basketball truly is a wonderful game that sometimes gets overlooked because popularity wise it falls behind baseball and football for some people.

I have only been blogging for a short time but I do have a good amount of things I would like to talk about and share with everyone willing to read it. I am also extremely open to feedback and/or questions as well as possible topics for discussion ideas anyone has for me. I hope that this blog is serving its intended purpose to this point and continues to into the future. 

Stronger Team Blog

As you can tell by my posts (the few I have posted so far) I am pretty passionate about the game of basketball. I try to get my daily fix of anything basketball anyway that I can, one of which happens to be reading blogs. There are a handful of great basketball blogs out there to be read, blogs on general basketball topics (such as mine), blogs on different drills you can incorporate into your training, blogs for those who want to coach basketball rather than play, and many other types of blogs.

For this post I wanted spotlight a blog that I read on a weekly basis when I can find the time. The blog is on strongerteam.com and is authored by Alan Stein, a name you are probably familiar with as referenced him in a past post. As I mentioned in that post Alan is a well know and respected teacher of the game of basketball. Well turns out he is also a very insightful blogger on basketball as well.

Alan's blog is one of my all-time favorites because it does a really good job of hitting various different topics within the basketball world, whereas other blogs specialize in specific fields usually. Alan has blogged about things such as how players can get the most out of every practice, how coach's can gain the trust and respect of their players, and even Q&A's with NBA players, most recently with Chris Paul starting point guard of the Los Angeles Clippers!

If you are interested in learning more about basketball I highly suggest you give Alan Stein's blog a look. I provided the link above and it is also available here which will take you directly to the blog itself. I will tell you though, Alan has recently said he will be taking the summer off of blogging but I encourage you to read his previous posts until he returns to blogging in September!