Joan Beringer: NBA draft scouting report and intel

2006 | 6-11 | 7-3 WS | 230 LBS Team: Cedevita Olimpija (Slovenia) Best rank: 13 / Worst rank: 40 Agent: Wasserman 2024- 25 stats: 4.9 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 0.4 apg, 0.5 spg, 1.4 bpg, 61.0% FG, 0.0% 3P in 57 games Literally no exposure or experience playing …

2006 | 6-11 | 7-3 WS | 230 LBS

Team: Cedevita Olimpija (Slovenia)

Best rank: 13 / Worst rank: 40

Agent: Wasserman

2024-25 stats: 4.9 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 0.4 apg, 0.5 spg, 1.4 bpg, 61.0% FG, 0.0% 3P in 57 games

Literally no exposure or experience playing basketball beforehand.

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The NBA stars with the best championship win rates in league history

HoopsHype ranks the NBA All-Stars who had the highest percentage of career seasons ending with a championship in league history.

Debate about Ring Culture and how it affects NBA fandom aside, there’s no question that winning a championship can elevate a player’s resume quite a bit – especially if said player is the top option on a championship-winning team.

Today, we are going to take a look at the NBA All-Stars with the best championship win rates in league history. Obviously, those golden era Celtics players from the ’50s and ’60s fared extremely well in this exercise. But how about Michael JordanKobe Bryant? Keep in mind that players who played for a very long time got hurt by their longevity in this case.

See the results below.

Hugo Gonzalez: NBA draft scouting report

2006 | 6-6 | 6-8 WS | 205 LBS Team: Real Madrid (Spain) Best rank: 22 / Worst rank: NR Wingspan: 6-7 Weight: 205 lbs Agent: ProMondo Statistics: 3.3 ppg, 0.5 apg, 1.8 rpg, 0.3 bpg, 0.2 spg, 40.8% FG, 27.4% 3P in 46 games this season Both of his …

2006 | 6-6 | 6-8 WS | 205 LBS

Team: Real Madrid (Spain)

Best rank: 22 / Worst rank: NR

Wingspan: 6-7

Weight: 205 lbs

Agent: ProMondo

Statistics: 3.3 ppg, 0.5 apg, 1.8 rpg, 0.3 bpg, 0.2 spg, 40.8% FG, 27.4% 3P in 46 games this season

Both of his parents played basketball for the Spanish club Estudiantes.

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Draft combine measurements: Who are the 2025 prospects most comparable to?

HoopsHype uses a tool of our own to present who 2025 NBA Draft prospects compare to physically based on combine measurements.

If you are a top-level NBA draft prospect, the combine might not do all that much to change your draft-night fortunes, as teams usually get so enamored with a projected No. 1 pick that very little, if anything, could sway them from taking that player.

At the same time, the combine provides teams with crucial data, including players’ actual height, wingspan, and hand size.

An example of how this could potentially hurt a player came recently at the 2025 combine, when Ace Bailey proved to be under 6-foot-8 (without shoes on) as opposed to the 6-foot-10 he was listed at for Rutgers.

How that ultimately affects his draft positioning remains to be seen but have no doubt: teams took notice of that.

Below, check out which current or former NBA players 2025 draft prospects are most comparable to based purely on their physical measurements.

(The tool we used to figure this out was created by our own Alberto de Roa.)

Noa Essengue: NBA draft scouting report and intel

2006 | 6-9 | 7-0 WS | 210 LBS Team: Ratiopharm Ulm (Germany) Best rank: 9 / Worst rank: 20 Agent: LIFT 2024-25 stats: 10.4 ppg, 1.1 apg, 4.9 rpg, 0.6 bpg, 0.9 spg, 51.0% FG, 22.5% 3P in 40 games this season Noa Essengue’s father is Gaston Essengue a …

2006 | 6-9 | 7-0 WS | 210 LBS

Team: Ratiopharm Ulm (Germany)

Best rank: 9 / Worst rank: 20

Agent: LIFT

2024-25 stats: 10.4 ppg, 1.1 apg, 4.9 rpg, 0.6 bpg, 0.9 spg, 51.0% FG, 22.5% 3P in 40 games this season

Noa Essengue’s father is Gaston Essengue a former professional basketball player and now coach for Venados de Mazatlán in Mexico.

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Neoklis ‘Neo’ Avdalas: NBA draft scouting report

2006 | 6-8 | 6-9 WS | 198 LBS Team: Peristeri (Greece) Agent: Octagon/Alex Saratsis Best aggregate mock draft rank: 36 / Worst rank: NR 2024-25 stats: Avdalas averaged 18.5 mpg, 7.7 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 1.4 apg, 0.6 spg, 0.4 bpg, 43.6% FG, 35.7% 3P in 26 …

2006 | 6-8 | 6-9 WS | 198 LBS

Team: Peristeri (Greece)

Agent: Octagon/Alex Saratsis

Best aggregate mock draft rank: 36 / Worst rank: NR

2024-25 stats: Avdalas averaged 18.5 mpg, 7.7 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 1.4 apg, 0.6 spg, 0.4 bpg, 43.6% FG, 35.7% 3P in 26 games this season across all leagues.

His father is former basketball player Dimitris Avdalas.

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NBA Draft Combine: The players with biggest hands ever (relative to height)

Much was made about Kawhi Leonard’s hand size when he first measured in at the NBA draft combine when it became known that the future Finals MVP had paws that reached 9.75 inches in length and 11.25 inches in width. Obviously, since then, the Los …

Much was made about Kawhi Leonard‘s hand size when he first measured in at the NBA draft combine when it became known that the future Finals MVP had paws that reached 9.75 inches in length and 11.25 inches in width.

Obviously, since then, the Los Angeles Clippers superstar has put those hands to good use in the NBA.

However, did you know Leonard doesn’t have the biggest hands in NBA draft combine history? Or even the second biggest?

Below, check out the biggest hands ever measured at the NBA Draft Combine relative to height.

Better than average: Quarterbacks

Which QBs were the best against a particular defense?

Each NFL team uses just one quarterback per game (ideally), and the incidence of producing one of the best eight games allowed by a defense is  less difficult than the other fantasy football positions that use several players in the same position per game.

Below shows how often a player logged the best game allowed by a defense (QB1), one of the four best performances allowed (top 4), or one of the best eight performances (top 8). With 17 games played, a top-eight game is “above average” among the best quarterbacks from each opponent. Notable, too, is that players face only 14 teams per year, three division mates are played twice and cannot give them more than one “QB1.”

The “Better than Average” (BTA) score is a weighting of those games.


Better than average

Running backs | Wide receivers | Tight ends


Bottom line: This is a true measurement of how productive a quarterback once the schedule influences are removed. It compares them to other quarterbacks that faced that same defense. If a player rates higher here than they did with 2024 fantasy points, it means they were limited by a schedule and are better than their last year’s stats suggest.

It’s important that a fantasy quarterback log at least nine instances of a top-eight game since that means most of their starts resulted in an above average game against what that defense allowed last year. Lamar Jackson was the clear winner among his peers, logging as may top-four performances as any other quarterback had in just top-eight games. Joe Burrow also excelled in this metric after his career season.  Baker Mayfield, Jayden Daniels, Sam Darnold and Brock Purdy all fared very well in the metric, playing better than most of the other quarterbacks when they faced a particular defense.

Mayfield and Daniels have bought a higher draft slot for 2025, but Sam Darnold and even Brock Purdy are in changing situations and drafters are not buying into them as much this summer.

Patrick Mahomes and Jordan Love disappointed, and Mahomes failing to produce any top game against an NFL defense shows how he’s declined in production.

Quarterbacks BTA QB1 Top 4 Top 8
Lamar Jackson 33 4 13 16
Joe Burrow 25 2 10 13
Baker Mayfield 24 4 7 13
Josh Allen 22 3 7 12
Jayden Daniels 21 2 7 12
Sam Darnold 20 1 7 12
Brock Purdy 18 1 7 10
Jalen Hurts 17 2 5 10
Jared Goff 16 3 4 9
Kyler Murray 16 1 5 10
Bo Nix 13 1 4 8
Geno Smith 13 0 3 10
Caleb Williams 12 0 5 7
Justin Herbert 11 0 4 7
Patrick Mahomes 11 0 3 8
Jordan Love 10 1 3 6
Aaron Rodgers 9 1 1 7
Anthony Richardson 9 1 3 5
Drake Maye 9 0 2 7
Matthew Stafford 9 0 4 5

Of the 32 available QB1 performances against NFL defenses, only seven quarterbacks were able to record more than two. Again, each player goes against three interdivisional opponents twice, so there are only 14 games against a unique opponent for the season.

Jared Goff was the most surprising, blowing up in three games and yet tied for only 10th in the metric.