Category: Ranking

Ranking: The most underpaid NBA players of all time

HoopsHype uses its own metrics to determine who are the most underpaid players in NBA history, including LeBron James and Nikola Jokic.

Today, we’re going to talk about the most underpaid NBA players (dating back to 1990, an era for which we have the most accurate salary/contract info for NBA players).

To determine this, we used our own Alberto De Roa’s Real Value metric (explained here) to compare players’ Real Values with their actual contracts each year. This analysis reveals which players were most underpaid (or overpaid) throughout NBA history.

As you’re about to find out, some all-time greats are even outperforming their monstrous modern-era max salaries.

15 training camp cuts NBA teams probably came to regret

HoopsHype puts together a list of the worst training camp cuts in NBA history and some of these names, like Stephen Jackson, will surprise.

Training camp is a time for lesser-known NBA players to compete for deep-bench roster spots. While teams occasionally make regrettable final roster decisions, this has become less of an issue in the two-way-contract era, which provides more roster flexibility.

In this article, we’ll examine some of the most significant misjudgments teams have made during training camp by looking at questionable cuts in NBA history.

(It’s not just Jeremy Lin).

The most overpaid NBA players of all time

HoopsHype uses its own metrics to determine who are the most overpaid players in NBA history, including Gordon Hayward and Blake Griffin.

Today, we’ll examine our updated ranking of the most overpaid players in NBA history. While some names, like Chandler Parsons, may be expected, a few all-time greats on the list might surprise you.

To determine which players were most overpaid, we used Alberto De Roa’s Real Value metric (explained elsewhere) to compare players’ Real Values with their actual contracts each year. This analysis reveals which players were most overpaid (or underpaid) throughout NBA history.

20 greatest centers ever: The HoopsHype list

Check out the 20 greatest centers of all time in the NBA, in our opinion, led off by a GOAT candidate in his own right, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

We have taken our HoopsHype 78 list and split it into five positions: point guards, shooting guards, small forwards, power forwards and centers.

We wrap things up with the 20 greatest centers of all time in the NBA, in our opinion, led off by a GOAT candidate in his own right, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

40 greatest European players ever: The HoopsHype list

HoopsHype ranks the 40 greatest European basketball players in history, led by the likes of Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Pau Gasol and various other stars.

Outside of North America, Europe is by far the biggest basketball hotbed in the world – as proved by the large contingent of players from the Old Continent in the NBA in the last three decades.

When we put together our list of the 78 greatest international players ever, more than half of those who made the cut were Europeans.

Here’s how we ranked them:

Ranking: The Top 100 players in the NBA for 2024-25

HoopsHype ranks the Top 100 players in the NBA for 2024-25, featuring the likes of Luka Doncic, LeBron James, Victor Wembanyama and more.

Today we wrap up our offseason player ranking series with the most important piece of them all: our projection for the Top 100 players in the NBA for 2024-25.

The upper echelons of the ranking are again dominated by foreign-born players (the first American-born one comes at No. 6) and point guards (nine in the Top 25).

Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic remains at No. 1, though it wasn’t a unanimous decision among HoopsHype staffers. Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama skyrocketed up the ranking, while LeBron James climbed three spots compared to this same list one year ago (which shouldn’t happen at age 39, but here we are).

Below, check out our Top 100 players in the NBA for 2024-25.

20 greatest power forwards ever: The HoopsHype list

Check out who we consider being the best power forwards who ever played basketball, led off by the legendary Tim Duncan.

We have taken our HoopsHype 78 list and split it into five positions: point guards, shooting guards, small forwards, power forwards and centers.

We keep it going with who we consider being the best power forwards who ever played basketball, led off by the legendary Tim Duncan.

Let’s get into it.

78 greatest international players ever: The HoopsHype list

HoopsHype ranks the 78 greatest international basketball players in history, led by the likes of Hakeem Olajuwon, Nikola Jokic, Luka Doncic and various other stars.

As another year has passed, we are back with an addition to our previous list of the greatest international basketball players ever.

With so much foreign talent dominating in the league right now, this ranking sees massive changes every offseason. Nikola Jokic is close to entering the international GOAT discussion, Luka Doncic has cracked the Top 10 at just 25, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander continues to skyrocket up the rankings.

Just like with our HoopsHype78 list, we compiled votes from our staff, removed the highest and lowest rank for each player and awarded points 78-1 for the rest.

As always, we factored in FIBA accomplishments to an extent but put way more stock on what players did while competing against the very best (that is, in the NBA). And, of course, the focus is on what they achieved and not what they could have done if A, B or C had happened.

Ranking: The Top 30 centers for the 2024-25 season

HoopsHype ranks the the top centers for the 2024-25 season, including the likes of Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid and more.

To this point, we have taken a look at the top point guards, top shooting guards, top small forwards and the top power forwards in the NBA ahead of the 2024-25 season.

We finally wrap up this offseason series today with the Top 30 centers in the NBA for the 2024-25 season, a list featuring the last two league MVPs, one of whom has won the prestigious honor three times, various All-NBA players, some elite defenders and even some promising up-and-coming pieces.

The center position in the NBA looked very bleak just 10 years ago but has seen a major resurgence over the past five campaigns or so, as the average big man has modernized his game to be much more versatile than the average big men of a decade ago.

Below, check out the Top 30 centers for the 2024-25 season, according to us.

20 greatest small forwards ever: The HoopsHype list

Check out what we consider are the best small forwards who ever played basketball, led off, obviously, by LeBron James. At the bottom of the ranking, several players who came close to making our Top 78 list.

We have taken our HoopsHype 78 list and split it into five positions: point guards, shooting guards, small forwards, power forwards and centers.

We continue here with what we consider are the best small forwards who ever played basketball, led off, obviously, by LeBron James. At the bottom of the ranking, several players who came close to making our Top 78 list.

There’s a lot to get to so let’s jump right in.