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NBA Draft Lottery reporting on the Hawks, Wizards, Rockets, Spurs, Pistons, Hornets, Blazers, Grizzlies, Jazz, Bulls, Thunder, and Kings from HoopsHype Senior NBA Insider Michael Scotto.
The 2024 NBA Draft Lottery led to jaw-dropping reactions from those in attendance and set the landscape for a potentially transformative summer of trades around the league.
Below is a look at the new draft order and the latest intel on each lottery team gathered by HoopsHype.
HoopsHype’s aggregate 2024 NBA mock draft lists the top prospects in the class, including rising centers Donovan Clingan and Zach Edey.
Following the NCAA Tournament and ahead of the NBA Draft Combine, HoopsHype has updated where the top prospects currently stand for the 2024 NBA Draft by compiling 10 mock drafts from ESPN, The Athletic, Bleacher Report, The Ringer, NBA Big Board, Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated, SB Nation, and USA TODAY’s For The Win.
HoopsHype also spoke with several NBA executives and scouts for their insight on the prospects for the fourth edition of the aggregate mock draft. The consensus from a majority of NBA talent evaluators is this draft class isn’t as top heavy with franchise-altering talent, but is deep with several potential sleepers to be selected.
“When you look at this draft, you have to drag down a lot of these players and think of them as 20-30 types of picks,” an NBA executive told HoopsHype. “The lottery guys in a normal draft would be 10-30. There are no real top-end lottery guys. If you’re thinking of getting a franchise-altering guy, I’d temper that and try to get a good role player. If you’re drafting at the top of the draft, you should try and get some value for that pick on the trade market.”
An explanation for HoopsHype’s Draft Predictor from colleague Alberto de Roa, who contributed research to this story, can be found here.
NOTE: These rankings reflect the composite score to get a feel for the overall consensus, not our own opinion. For example, if a player was the first pick on a publication’s mock draft, he received 60 points. If a player was second, he received 59 points, and so on. We then tabulated the total number of points for each player’s consensus ranking.
HoopsHype lists the Top 50 NBA players who made the most money and never made an All-NBA team.
Did you know 22 players in NBA history have made over $150 million without earning an All-NBA selection?
HoopsHype ranked the 50 highest-paid players who never made an All-NBA selection, combining to earn over $8 billion, according to our database.
HoopsHype’s Alberto de Roa contributed research to this report.
Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell free agency preview and why he’s underrated amid a career year from HoopsHype’s NBA Insider Michael Scotto.
Los Angeles Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell is playing the best basketball of his career in his prime, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.
This season, Russell has shot more efficiently than his All-Star campaign in Brooklyn, shooting 42.3 percent from 3-point range, which ranks third among players ranked in the NBA’s Top 25 in made threes per game.
Since Russell’s son, Riley, was born on September 24, 2022, Russell has averaged 18.0 points on 46.6 percent shooting from the field and 40.9 percent from 3-point range, 6.3 assists, and 3.0 rebounds with a plus-215 rating in 137 games.
According to Russell, the birth of his son helped him know his purpose in every game.
“Everything I do, I’d see his face,” Russell told HoopsHype. “It’s either this or that. What are you going to do? It makes my decision easy when it comes to anything. It does have a change and effect on you. It puts you in this state of mind that it’s mine or I’ll die for it. It’s been good.”
Russell has an upcoming decision on his $18.69 million player option for the 2024-25 season and is considered one of the top free agents on the market should he decline to exercise his player option and become an unrestricted free agent.
“It’s definitely pressure,” Russell told HoopsHype when asked what it’s like playing in a potential contract season. “It’s something that can eat a lot of people up in the league. A lot of people can be too high at times and too low at times, which causes an emotional roller coaster through the ups and downs of the season. For me, I wanted to control that. I wanted to stay sane and stay even-keeled through the ups and the downs.”
While thriving under the pressure of a contract season, Russell could be of interest to several teams looking for point guard help during free agency this summer.
HoopsHype lists the Top 25 NBA players who never won the MVP award.
Over the past 15 seasons, four players have won a majority of the MVP awards: LeBron James (four), Stephen Curry (twice), Giannis Antetokounmpo (twice), and Nikola Jokic (twice).
Joel Embiid, James Harden, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant, and Derrick Rose were among the few to crack that list amid the dominance of the big four listed above and win their only MVP award in that span.
So who are some of the NBA’s greatest players of all time who weren’t able to win an MVP and break through their era of dominant players?
HoopsHype examined the Top 25 players to never win MVP from our 77 greatest players ever list to find out.
HoopsHype Senior NBA Insider Michael Scotto reports on the latest intel on all 30 NBA teams ahead of the trade deadline.
With hours until the NBA trade deadline, here’s the latest intel on all 30 teams gathered by HoopsHype. This story will be updated with any new intel as the deadline nears.
NBA trade deadline rumors on the Knicks, Clippers, Jazz, Rockets, Hawks, Nets, and Wizards from HoopsHype Senior NBA Insider Michael Scotto.
With the calendar turning to February and the NBA trade deadline a week away, HoopsHype has gathered the latest intel surrounding the New York Knicks, Los Angeles Clippers, Utah Jazz, Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks, Brooklyn Nets, and Washington Wizards below.
NBA trade deadline preview with reporting on the Knicks, Lakers, Warriors, Nets, Jazz, 76ers, Rockets, Raptors, Cavaliers, Hawks, Pistons, Thunder, and more from HoopsHype Senior NBA Insider Michael Scotto and ESPN’s Bobby Marks on the latest HoopsHype podcast.
HoopsHype Senior NBA Insider Michael Scotto and ESPN’s Bobby Marks report the latest intel on the Knicks, Lakers, Warriors, Nets, Jazz, 76ers, Rockets, Raptors, Cavaliers, Hawks, Pistons, and Thunder on the latest episode of The HoopsHype Podcast.
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Reporting on Knicks trade targets, Immanuel Quickley’s future, Dejounte Murray’s trade market, Lauri Markannen, possible front office changes for the Hornets, two-way conversion candidates, and more from HoopsHype Senior NBA Insider Michael Scotto
The G League Showcase, the NBA’s unofficial winter meetings summit ahead of the Feb. 8 trade deadline, was filled with chatter about potential trade candidates, front office changes, and more.
Below is a look at the latest intel gathered by HoopsHype, including updates on New York Knicks trade targets and the future of Immanuel Quickley, Dejounte Murray, Lauri Markanen, Pascal Siakam, OG Anunoby, the Hornets, and more.
Reporting on the top NBA trade candidates for the 2023-24 season on each team from HoopsHype Senior NBA Insider Michael Scotto.
Following the James Harden deal to the Los Angeles Clippers earlier this season and the recent trade chatter surrounding Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine, HoopsHype spoke with 15 NBA executives and league sources to project the top trade candidates for each team this season.
