It’s time for another edition of our Trade Value Rankings, in which the HoopsHype staff comes together to vote on and rank players by – you guessed it – their trade value. To do so, we weigh their talent, production, previous performances, age, …
It’s time for another edition of our Trade Value Rankings, in which the HoopsHype staff comes together to vote on and rank players by – you guessed it – their trade value. To do so, we weigh their talent, production, previous performances, age, availability, positional scarcity, salary and what their future salary might look like.
After a few editions in which Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic sat at the top spot, today, we have a new player at No. 1 – and it probably won’t be all that difficult to guess who it is considering the year this player just had.
Below, check out the Top 100 NBA players in our Trade Value Rankings.
HoopsHype breaks down the impending NBA free agents who most helped their stock with their play in the 2023 playoffs.
Recently, we discussed the prospective NBA free agents who hurt their stock the most in the playoffs, an unfortunate list including the likes of Dillon Brooks and D’Angelo Russell.
Today, we’re taking a more positive route and instead talking about the guys who have helped their stock the most with their play in the postseason, a seven-player list featuring some very promising young players who were able to step up on the biggest stage and performed when their teams most needed it over the past couple of months.
Below, check out the free agents who helped up their stock the most in the 2023 playoffs.
The Boston Celtics will prioritize keeping Jaylen Brown long-term this summer while also making a decision on the future Grant Williams.
The Boston Celtics seemed set to be a title contender for a long period of time after a strong mid-season turnaround last year that resulted in an NBA Finals appearance. The team seemed unbothered by the unexpected coaching change during the regular season but it may have impacted them in the playoffs. While making the Conference Finals five times in the last seven seasons is a great accomplishment, they continue to fall short of their goal of winning a championship.
The Celtics shouldn’t get discouraged by this year’s results considering how strong the top of the Eastern Conference is. They still have one of the deepest and most talented rosters in the league, so they’ll be right back in the title mix next season without having to make significant changes. Their offseason will mostly revolve around long-term decisions on key players.
Here is a preview of the 2023 offseason for the Boston Celtics.
An agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement between the owners and players association was reached in the late hours of the March 31 deadline. Many changes trickled out over the past weekend and while there is still much left to be …
The biggest theme is that it will feature changes that could fundamentally change the ways in which teams build their roster. Teams with the most expensive rosters will have more restrictions that will limit their ability to add players from outside the roster. Meanwhile, more trade and free agency opportunities are expected to be expanded for clubs below the luxury tax, but we have few updates on those as of now.
Here is a breakdown of the biggest changes so far, including a deep dive on the second apron that will eventually be implemented.
Parity in the NBA is as high as it’s been in recent memory with many teams going all-in right now. A lot of them could fail to meet lofty expectations but could still put together multiple winning seasons and playoff series victories. With the …
Parity in the NBA is as high as it’s been in recent memory with many teams going all-in right now. A lot of them could fail to meet lofty expectations but could still put together multiple winning seasons and playoff series victories.
With the league as competitive as it is now, we decided to introduce the Future Rankings, where we rank each team based on how successful we expect them to be over the next five seasons.
The trade deadline passed and we now have a clearer picture of how teams will operate in the 2023 offseason. Last July after the free agency dust settled, we got a rough idea of which teams were projected to have significant cap space. For the most …
The trade deadline passed and we now have a clearer picture of how teams will operate in the 2023 offseason. Last July after the free agency dust settled, we got a rough idea of which teams were projected to have significant cap space. For the most part, the teams remain the same, but the quality of free agents has decreased with many high-profile players signing veteran extensions since. It’s possible the lack of talent could push more teams to roll over their cap space into the season like the Pacers and Spurs did this year. It’s also possible we get more extensions before June 30, which could push more of these teams to operate as over-the-cap teams instead.
Here are the teams that project to have cap space, operate over the cap, and which of the latter are projected to be in the luxury tax.
We’re back with our pre-Trade Deadline edition of the Trade Value Rankings. Here, the HoopsHype staff gets together to rank players, weighing factors such as talent, performance, age, availability, positional scarcity, current salary, and what their …
We’re back with our pre-Trade Deadline edition of the Trade Value Rankings. Here, the HoopsHype staff gets together to rank players, weighing factors such as talent, performance, age, availability, positional scarcity, current salary, and what their next contract could look like.
MVP frontrunner Luka Doncic remains at the top of the rankings.
In a wide-ranging Q&A, the CEO of KemperSports discusses the sale and the possibility of a fourth course.
Streamsong Resort in Florida opened in 2012, and aside from its original two golf courses and the addition of a lodge and a third course, a major talking point has always been its owner, Mosaic Company.
One of the world’s largest phosphate producers, Mosaic had for decades mined the remote Central Florida site where Streamsong was constructed, about an hour’s drive southeast of Tampa and 90 minutes southwest of Orlando. Those past mining activities defined the land, leaving huge piles of sand that over time had turned into surreal dunes. The landscape makes the three courses at Streamsong very different than just about anything else in Florida.
But Mosaic was still first and foremost a mining company. It hired golf management company KemperSports of Illinois to operate the golf courses from the start, and two years ago KemperSports took over management of the entire resort, including hospitality. For several years there was speculation that Mosaic would sell the resort at some time.
That time has come, as Mosaic has sold Streamsong Resort to its longtime management partner, KemperSports. As first reported by the Fire Pit Collective, the sale price was $160 million, confirmed by Mosaic in a news release Friday. The acquisition included three golf courses, two clubhouses, the Streamsong Lodge and other amenities, all on 7,000 acres as part of the deal. Just over 2,000 of those acres are in use now as part of the resort.
The Lodge at Streamsong in Florida (Courtesy of Streamsong)
Each of Streamsong’s three courses – the Red by designers Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, the Blue by Tom Doak and the Black by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner – ranks in the top 60 on Golfweek’s Best list of top modern courses in the United States. The Red ranks No. 2 on Golfweek’s Best list of public-access layouts in Florida, with the Black No. 3 and the Blue No. 4 on that list. Streamsong is one of just a handful of resorts to have so many highly ranked courses.
“We’re very excited,” Steve Skinner, the CEO of KemperSports, told Golfweek on Friday. “As you know, we’ve been involved with this property since almost Day 1, for over 10 years. It’s such a special project and such a special property, we’re just really excited. It’s a rare place in golf and just really iconic.”
Skinner – a trained lawyer who has worked at KemperSports since 1998 – described the acquisition as having been competitive with several other potential buyers looking to take advantage of golf’s resurgent popularity since the start of the COVID pandemic in 2020. He said there aren’t many properties like Streamsong with its three courses, and interest was high.
KemperSports has 140 properties in its management stable, Skinner said, including 15 courses it owns and another dozen it leases. Those properties under management include both private clubs and public-access layouts, and the company also operates a division focused on youth and recreational sports venues. KemperSports was founded in 1978 by Steve Lesnick, who still serves as its chairman, and in 2022 the company took on several new investors who provided capital for expansion, including the Streamsong acquisition.
Having managed Streamsong’s golf for a decade and the entire resort in recent years, there isn’t a tremendous learning curve for KemperSports as it takes over the resort. KemperSports doesn’t plan any changes to the staff, and Skinner said he has faith in the people working at the resort to keep a focus on customers and continuous improvements. Skinner spoke to Golfweek of several plans for the resort, both in the short and long-term.
The biggest change coming soon will be the development of The Chain, a non-traditional, short, 18-hole course by the team of Coore and Crenshaw to be built directly across from the resort’s 228-room hotel. Streamsong announced the plans to build The Chain a year ago.
Is even more golf on the horizon for Streamsong? Read on for that and more from Skinner. This discussion has been edited for length.
We’re back with our fifth edition of the Trade Value Rankings, in which we list players after weighing factors such as talent, performance, age, availability, positional scarcity, current salary, and what their next contract could look like. We have …
We’re back with our fifth edition of the Trade Value Rankings, in which we list players after weighing factors such as talent, performance, age, availability, positional scarcity, current salary, and what their next contract could look like.
We have a new No.1 player with Luka Doncic taking the top spot from Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Brian Robinson’s “big hat” immediately becomes a meme
Washington Commander’s runningback, [autotag]Brian Robinson[/autotag], had arguably his best day as a professional with 20 touches for 125 yards and a score in their 19-13 win over the Atlanta Falcons.
However, it was the former Crimson Tide star’s postgame outfit that grabbed the attention of the media. Robinson was spotted in a hat that is about four times the size of his head after the game that immediately became an internet meme.
While the hat looks a bit goofy, Robinson did say that his friend owns a “big hat” company, so it is nice to see Robinson supporting a friend’s business!
The Commanders are now 7-5 and back in the playoff hunt, and Robinson has certainly played his role in that,
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