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Ranking the best Sixth Men in NBA history

HoopsHype ranks the 30 best Sixth Men in NBA history, a list featuring the likes of Manu Ginobili, Jamal Crawford and John Havlicek.

Where some may see being a backup as a slight, in reality, having an elite Sixth Man can change a team’s fortunes and turn a squad from good to great.

The role of Sixth Man has changed throughout NBA history, with a few Boston Celtics players in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s playing a large part in that. Today, different Sixth Men play different roles, with some being the first player off the bench for their scoring and playmaking, and others for their defense.

Today, we’re going to take a look at who we believe to be the 30 best Sixth Men in NBA history, a list featuring various current and future Hall of Famers.

NBA playoff predictions: Ranking the Top 15 players for the 2025 postseason

HoopsHype ranks our projected Top 15 players for the 2024-25 NBA playoffs, featuring LeBron James, Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic and more.

The most special time of the year for basketball fans is here, as the 2024-25 NBA playoffs are upon us.

To celebrate the occasion, we are going to rank the Top 15 players of the upcoming playoffs based on how we think they are going to perform.

Players fell a few spots in this ranking, or missed out altogether, based on their health, as well as on how far we believe their teams are going to go in the playoffs.

Without any further ado, the Top 15 players for the 2024-25 NBA playoffs, according to us.

NBA GOAT index: All the rankings of the greatest basketball players ever

Most of you know about our super uncontroversial 78 greatest players ever ranking already, but we have a bunch of others in which we list the NBA’s finest in sometimes oddly specific ways. Peak dominance? Covered. Defensive legends? Yep. Position …

We have indexed all that content in a single page for your perusal.

Here it is:

20 greatest defensive centers ever: The HoopsHype list

We have taken our 78 greatest defensive NBA players ever list and split it into five positions: point guards, shooting guards, small forwards, power forwards and centers. The players who received some votes but were ultimately left out are now …

We have taken our 78 greatest defensive NBA players ever list and split it into five positions: point guards, shooting guards, small forwards, power forwards and centers. The players who received some votes but were ultimately left out are now included in the positional rankings, so you can see who nearly made the cut for our Top 78.

Bill Russell, who led the Celtics to 11 championships, is our No. 1 pick among centers. Check the full list down below:

The peak GOATs: Ranking the NBA’s best at their best

HoopsHype ranks 25 of the NBA’s GOATS in order of best five-year peaks, as judged by Global Rating and a panel of voters.

After LeBron James broke the NBA’s all-time scoring record, some naysayers started calling him the Longevity GOAT as a way to avoid calling him the actual GOAT.

Although James, according to us, has by now done enough to be considered the NBA’s GOAT, we still wanted to look at the best five-year peaks in NBA history. (Spoiler alert: James ranks very high in this exercise.)

To determine when exactly each player’s peak took place, we used our own Global Rating Metric and went by each player’s best five continuous seasons. After that, we asked a panel of our writers and editors to vote on which five-year peaks by NBA legends were the best.

No. 1 might be a surprise considering who we just said we have as our outlet’s GOAT, though maybe not a surprise to everyone.

NBA business: The average valuations of all teams in the NBA

Forbes has been keeping track of NBA team valuations since 1998, but they are not the only media outlet doing that anymore. Sportico joined in 2020 and CNBC in 2025. According to Forbes, NBA teams have appreciated by around 2,200 percent on average …

Forbes has been keeping track of NBA team valuations since 1998, but they are not the only media outlet doing that anymore. Sportico joined in 2020 and CNBC in 2025.

According to Forbes, NBA teams have appreciated by around 2,200 percent on average since the publication started releasing valuations 27 years ago. In 2001, Forbes ranked the Knicks as the most valuable franchise at $395 million. In 2025, the least valuable team is the Grizzlies at $3 billion.

Check out the NBA team valuations ranking we’ve created by compiling data from these three media outlets. They all agree that the Warriors, the Knicks, and the Lakers are the Top 3 NBA franchises by value.

20 greatest defensive power forwards ever: The HoopsHype list

Tim Duncan, the best power forward of all time, ranks first here. Check the full list down below:

The oldest players to win NBA Player of the Month

Aside from becoming the first player to score 50,000 points between the regular season and the playoffs, LeBron James achieved another feat on Tuesday by becoming the oldest player to win Player of the Month, besting the previous record set by Karl …

Aside from becoming the first player to score 50,000 points between the regular season and the playoffs, LeBron James achieved another feat on Tuesday by becoming the oldest player to win Player of the Month, besting the previous record set by Karl Malone back in 2000. All in all, the 21-time All-Star has earned the award on 41 occasions, more than doubling Kobe Bryant‘s 17.

See the 20 oldest winners below:

On Player of the Week awards, LeBron James is the GOAT by far

Since Julius Erving won the first NBA Player of the Week award back in 1979, many basketball greats have collected a huge number of weekly accolades from the league. But really, it’s not that close at No. 1. In his 22 seasons as a pro, LeBron James …

Since Julius Erving won the first NBA Player of the Week award back in 1979, many basketball greats have collected a huge number of weekly accolades from the league. But really, it’s not that close at No. 1.

In his 22 seasons as a pro, LeBron James has won the award an NBA record 69 times – which is more than No. 2 and No. 3 in the list combined. The league started naming one Player of the Week for each conference in 2001-02, which helps LeBron here. Then again, his numbers are staggering.

You can check the full ranking below…

The most star-studded teams ever in NBA history

Using combined All-Star and All-NBA appearances, HoopsHype ranks the 40 most star-studded teams in NBA history.

Using combined All-Star appearances and All-NBA selections, we have ranked the Top 40 most star-studded teams in NBA history.

And guess what?

Simply putting together a roster full of stars historically hasn’t been a great way to win a championship, which is probably because due to the salary cap, a lot of those stars were past their primes at that point and playing on minimum deals. After all, how else could a team playing in a salary-capped league have so many stars on a single roster? So you end up with a lot of older stars past their primes on those star-studded teams, which can hurt team chemistry and lower the level of defending on the team.

The most star-studded team in NBA history, for example, the 2021-22 Los Angeles Lakers, had 63 combined All-Star selections and 53 All-NBA selections on its roster, outrageously high marks.

The Lakers went 33-49 that year and missed the playoffs.

Out of the 40 most star-studded teams in NBA history, only 14 went on to win NBA championships. That’s 35 percent. And out of the Top 10 most star-studded teams in NBA history, only the ’73 Celtics and ’13 Heat, the latter led by three in-prime stars – LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh – won the title.

For what it’s worth, and you can certainly use this in future GOAT debates if you want, not a single Michael Jordan team made the cut on this list, meaning Jordan never played on a team among the 40-most star-studded in NBA history.

Check out the complete list down below.