R.I.P. Hoopsworld

https://twitter.com/stevekylerNBA/status/423467458302050304

I know there are a few "alums" here, but it officially shuttered today. Kyler and company have something new in the works, I think they just lost creative control when they sold out a few years ago.

 

Didn't go there a lot . . . but since these days I can't get enough NBA news, this is sad.

 

That site went down the tubes. I spent a couple years on the staff and I had some fun, but like many other sites that started up in the early 2000s, they had no clue what they were doing.

 

They had a really fun messageboard with a close community. Unfortunately, they kept on changing it and people got sick of it and stopped signing up again after everytime they "reset everything" and eventually just 86d the messageboard altogether.

 

I remember lurking there a lot XxericXx

 

Had some good guys.

Pavlovs dog
Discover69
Ucatchtrout
Bingobangobongo
Bballfan72031

And a few others

 

Trout and Discovery I remember.

 

Bingobangobongo was in a band and they were actually pretty good.

 

Hoopsworld sucks. Always posting unsubstantiated rumors based on bullshit.

 

http://www.basketballinsiders.com/

hoop fam

 

I got a free T-shirt from them like 13 years ago when I was a teenager for guessing a draft pick correctly during a chat.

 

Was it the "both teams played hard" one? I got one of those

hoop fam

 

I have one of the originals!

 

Yeah. I forgot how I got it...maybe from Fleming or you somehow

hoop fam

 

Treaty of Batum is Kiss My Cheeks. Ucatchtrout is a lesbian who posted here under the same name and is not a manhater. I hope she comes back.

 

No, I think it just had their logo on it.

 

Ucatchtrout used to post here.

I don't believe he is treaty of batum. He was kiss my darius and it's go time