2025 NBA free agent rankings: Early look at the top potential available players

March 17, 2024, 3:54 pm

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The 2025 free agent class was hyped as potentially the strongest since 2019, thanks to a speculated salary cap surge from a new TV rights deal. However, the NBA and the players’ union capped salary increases at 10 percent annually to avoid a drastic spike like in 2016. Additionally, players can now earn more through extensions, narrowing the financial difference between extending and testing free agency. This change has seen players favor extensions to avoid market uncertainties.

Still, there may be a bunch of good free agents available next year. Below is a ranking of every player currently able to become a free agent by then.

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The likeliest players to make their All-NBA debut this season

March 19, 2024, 10:50 am

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Right now, there are 26 active NBA players who have been All-Stars in their careers but who have yet to make an All-NBA Team, which is arguably the league’s highest individual honor besides winning Most Valuable Player or Finals MVP.

That list features some huge names, including Zion Williamson, Anthony Edwards, Bam Adebayo, Brandon Ingram and Jalen Brunson.

Several of those players stand a good chance of making their All-NBA debuts in the 2023-24 season. Today, let’s explore the most likely candidates to achieve this milestone.

How top G League Ignite players have performed in the NBA

March 22, 2024, 6:09 am

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With the news that the NBA is shutting down the G League Ignite program, we thought it would be a good time to look at just how successful the initiative was in getting players ready for the next level.

The G League Ignite program had no trouble signing top prospects, but how exactly those prospects have done since getting to the NBA is another topic entirely.

Did going the G League Ignite route help those players get to the next level, or set them up for immediate NBA success? That matter is up for debate, as you will see below.

2008 NBA re-draft: The way it should have been

March 26, 2024, 1:06 am

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The 2008 draft is low-key one of the best of the century with a bunch of players still productive in the NBA to this day.

This class is of course led by Russell Westbrook and it features six other All-Stars. (Two of them were selected in the second round).

Additionally, this draft has a low number of busts, with only two lottery picks not being featured in our re-draft’s first round.

The most overpaid NBA players of 2023-24 (so far)

April 1, 2024, 2:39 pm

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If there’s one thing the casual NBA fan knows about the modern NBA, it’s that the league’s current generation of players is getting paid quite handsomely.

That does lead to some unfair, over-the-top criticism of current NBA players and the league’s health at large… and we’re going to add to that discourse today (sorry!) by taking a look at the most overpaid NBA players of the 2023-24 season.

To do so, we’re using our Real Value metric, which uses Global Rating (learn about our player-rating metric here) to determine how much each NBA player should be earning, salary-wise, based on their raw statistics, games played and team success. Once we had each player’s Real Value, we compared that number to their actual salaries to determine who the most overpaid NBA players of 2023-24 are in a fair manner.

Find the results below.

The greatest NBA players ever on very, very bad teams

April 6, 2024, 3:28 am

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In basketball, with just five players on the floor at a time per squad, one star can really carry a team to a higher level.

Prime example: In the mid-2000s, Kobe Bryant dragged the Los Angeles Lakers, whose third-leading scorer was usually Smush Parker or Luke Walton, to multiple playoff appearances after Shaquille O’Neal left and before Pau Gasol arrived.

As such, it’s a very difficult exercise to find elite NBA player seasons on very, very bad teams, which we – for this article – defined as campaigns in which the team won fewer than 25 percent of its games. Almost always, if an NBA player is having an elite season, their team will win more than 25 percent of its contests.

Regardless, the season rookie Victor Wembanyama is having got us thinking: What are some of the best NBA seasons put up by players on real lousy squads?

Find out what we determined below.

2010 NBA re-draft: The way it should have been

April 13, 2024, 2:50 pm

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The 2010 NBA draft class has not aged gracefully, featuring only one current All-Star among its ranks.

To be fair, three additional All-Stars from this class were unfortunately plagued by injuries, which prematurely ended their prime years much sooner than anticipated.

Below, check out our 2010 NBA re-draft, with players taken in the order we believe they should have gone in.

Ranking: The most underpaid NBA players of 2023-24

April 14, 2024, 1:09 am

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Recently, we looked at the most overpaid NBA players for the 2023-24 season.

Today, we’re taking a look at the more positive end of the spectrum as we examine the most underpaid players of this NBA season.

To determine that, we’re using our Real Value metric, which is derived from Global Rating, to find out which players have outperformed their 2023-24 salaries. Usually, that type of metric would favor players on their rookie-scale contracts, and there are some of those on this list. But dominating this ranking are the MVP-level superstars who are somehow even outperforming their max contracts.

Find out who exactly we’re talking about below.

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NBA Twitter reacts to Bucks losing No. 2 spot to Knicks: 'Maybe the real Dame Time was the friends we made along the way'

April 14, 2024, 1:04 pm

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As we hit the final day of the 2023-24 NBA regular season in the Eastern Conference, spots No. 2 to No. 8 were up for grabs as far as postseason play, opening up opportunities for every team to move up and down the standings.

The big losers of the day were the Milwaukee Bucks, who had a chance to lock up the No. 2 seed but were blown out by the Orlando Magic, falling to the three-seed and giving the New York Knicks the second seed heading into the playoffs.

The Cleveland Cavaliers were likewise losers on the day, getting blown out by a depleted Charlotte Hornets team to fall to the No. 4 spot in the East. Sure, they were heavily injured themselves but even so, that’s a brutal loss for Cleveland.

Check out what NBA Twitter had to say about it:

NBA Twitter reacts to Wolves falling to No. 3 spot: 'Best team of my lifetime about to get bounced in four games by Suns'

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The final day of the 2023-24 NBA regular season in the Western Conference saw a lot of teams with plenty to play for, including the No. 1 seed being up for grabs.

Without a doubt, the biggest losers of the day out West were the Minnesota Timberwolves, who were trounced 125-106 by the Phoenix Suns despite having the top seed in the conference to play for. What’s worst for T-Wolves fans is that the team went 0-3 against Phoenix in the regular season and now faces the Suns in round one.

Troubling for those in Minnesota.

In other news, the Los Angeles Lakers handily defeated the New Orleans Pelicans 124-108 and will now face the Pels in the Play-In Tournament with a chance to lock up the No. 7 seed ahead of the playoffs, though back spasms to Anthony Davis do cast a bit of concern in L.A.

Check out what NBA Twitter had to say about it: