Category: Ranking

NBA Power Rankings: Suns, Magic surge near the top

The fifth week of the 2023-24 season is in the books and we have a fresh batch of power rankings. The Orlando Magic and Phoenix Suns stand out as the biggest winners of the week. Both went 4-0 and extended their active winning streaks to 7 games …

The fifth week of the 2023-24 season is in the books and we have a fresh batch of power rankings.

The Orlando Magic and Phoenix Suns stand out as the biggest winners of the week. Both went 4-0 and extended their active winning streaks to 7 games each.

Between the Magic and Suns, Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner, and Devin Booker should all receive strong consideration for Player of the Week. Both Banchero and Wagner had great performances on the offensive end while Devin Booker kept the Suns afloat without Bradley Beal for the entire week and Kevin Durant for two games. Tyrese Haliburton and Trae Young had two of the best statistical weeks relative to their averages, with a boost coming from their high-scoring game against each other.

At the bottom of the spectrum, the San Antonio Spurs, Washington Wizards, and Memphis Grizzlies lost the most games. None of these teams recorded a win and all hold three of the four worst net ratings in the league for the season.

MVP rankings: Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, more

HoopsHype ranks the 12 best 2023-24 NBA MVP rankings so far, feautiring the likes of Joel Embiid, Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic.

Welcome to the first edition of our 2023-24 MVP rankings. The season is just about 15 games old for every team so we have a solid enough sample size to start making some proclamations and educated guesses at this point.

Who will come in first?

The player who won Finals MVP and is a reigning champion? Or the fellow center who took league MVP honors in 2022-23? And what about the Canadian ball-handler who’s in otherworldy form right now?

Find that and much more out below as we present our 2023-24 MVP rankings.

Note: The Form Rating stat we used below is derived from our own Global Rating metric and basically ranks players based on their form over the previous 15 days. More on that here.

Global Rating: Who are the best players by age?

Global Rating is the main metric HoopsHype uses to track the performance of basketball players all around the world. Created by our own Alberto De Roa, it combines players’ and teams’ statistics to rank players according to their productivity on the …

Global Rating is the main metric HoopsHype uses to track the performance of basketball players all around the world. Created by our own Alberto De Roa, it combines players’ and teams’ statistics to rank players according to their productivity on the court. The amount of games a player has missed in a certain season or competition is also factored in. A more extensive explanation can be found here.

Below, you can check the Global Rating ranking for each group of age.

(RNK: Overall NBA ranking).

NBA stars who had a winning record against Michael Jordan

There aren’t many stars who can boast about besting Michael Jordan, widely regarded as the greatest of all time by most basketball fans. Though MJ gave everybody the business, a bunch of NBA luminaries managed to beat him more often than not during …

There aren’t many stars who can boast about besting Michael Jordan, widely regarded as the greatest of all time by most basketball fans. Though MJ gave everybody the business, a bunch of NBA luminaries managed to beat him more often than not during his early days with the weak Chicago Bulls roster in the mid-80s or when he donned the Washington Wizards jersey.

Few accomplished that when MJ and his team were at the peak of their powers – most notably a towering center from the Western Conference.

Here’s a list of stars who retired with a winning record against the GOAT:

Trade rumor rankings: Zach LaVine, Donovan Mitchell and more

HoopsHype ranks the five players who have appeared most often in trade rumors over the previous week, including Zach LaVine.

As we get into the 2023-24 NBA season, trade scuttle remains quiet but that doesn’t mean there aren’t rumors to discuss.

Below, we break down the five NBA players who have appeared most often in trade rumors over the past week, as ranked by appearances on our Trade Rumors page.

2023-24 NBA City Edition jerseys, ranked from best to worst

HoopsHype ranks the 2023-24 NBA City Edition jerseys from best to worst.

City Edition jerseys have been around in the NBA since 2016, giving fans some absolute gems to purchase for the past eight or so years.

Of course, art requires taking risks and that means there have been some absolute duds in there as well, jerseys that are remembered not fondly but comedically.

The 2023-24 NBA City Edition jerseys were recently fully unveiled so we decided to rank them from best to worst. Note: None of us are artists or fashion designers so this is purely from a layman’s point of view.

Check out our full ranking of the 2023-24 City Edition jerseys below.

40 greatest European players ever: The HoopsHype list

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 77 greatest …

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 77 greatest international players ever, more than half of those who made the cut were Europeans.

Here’s how we ranked them: