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In the NBA, winners get immortalized over anyone else, pretty much like in every other sport in existence. As such, we decided to look at the NBA players with the best winning percentage in league history amongst players with at least 250 games …
In the NBA, winners get immortalized over anyone else, pretty much like in every other sport in existence.
As such, we decided to look at the NBA players with the best winning percentage in league history amongst players with at least 250 games under their belts.
Magic Johnson reigns supreme while Sam Hauser has surprisingly jumped to the No. 2 spot thanks to the dominance of the Boston Celtics led by Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
Check out the full rankings below:
The NBA playoffs are finally upon us. For every team still contending for the championship, here are their current rotations. And for eliminated teams, we’re using our 2025-26 Depth Charts to project their offseason outlook. More details on injuries …
The NBA playoffs are finally upon us. For every team still contending for the championship, here are their current rotations. And for eliminated teams, we’re using our 2025-26 Depth Charts to project their offseason outlook. More details on injuries here:
Key: • Player Option / • Team Option / Not Guaranteed / • Two-way contract
NBA jerseys hold a special place in the hearts of basketball fans. According to NBA Store sales reports, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Stephen Curry have dominated jersey sales in the 21st century. King James led the league with nine top-selling …
NBA jerseys hold a special place in the hearts of basketball fans. According to NBA Store sales reports, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Stephen Curry have dominated jersey sales in the 21st century. King James led the league with nine top-selling seasons, while the Black Mamba and Curry achieved this feat six and four times, respectively.
Check out the full list down below:
In the modern NBA, there’s no more important skill than availability. To keep track of who’s playing, who’s sitting, and who’s on the fence, here’s the current status for each player in the league. To see how this affects each team’s rotation, you …
In the modern NBA, there’s no more important skill than availability. To keep track of who’s playing, who’s sitting, and who’s on the fence, here’s the current status for each player in the league. To see how this affects each team’s rotation, you can check our updated Depth Charts.
We’re also introducing the Injured Salary Ranking, which shows which teams have the most money sidelined at the moment. This ranking includes players currently listed as “Out” or “Doubtful,” while healthy players assigned to the G League are not included.
Key: • Out / • Doubtful / • Questionable / • Probable
Check out these photos of UFC Octagon Girls, Bellator ring card girls and more MMA personalities who remind us what round it is.
Check out these photos of UFC Octagon Girls, Bellator ring card girls and more MMA personalities who remind us what round it is.
HoopsHype presents the players who took the largest share, or percentage, of their team’s payrolls (salary cap space) with their contracts.
During his time in the NBA, Shaquille O’Neal was not known for leaving money on the table during negotiations to help his teams out. Unlike the Dirk Nowitzkis of the world, O’Neal wasn’t for giving his team handouts, instead choosing to make every penny possible, which he was well within his right to do, as he pretty much always lived up to his max contracts.
Well, our research confirms the idea that O’Neal drove a hard bargain during his time in the NBA, as we found that the Big Aristotle owned the biggest share of team payrolls in the NBA over the past 40 years, even after we factored in the first four seasons of his career in which he was on his rookie-scale contract, and the last campaign of his career when he was on a minimum deal.
Regardless, you can easily make the argument that O’Neal was worth every dollar since the big man had one of the most illustrious careers in NBA history, one headlined by his winning four NBA championships, three Finals MVPs, one regular-season MVP and his making 15 All-Star appearances and 14 All-NBA teams.
According to our research, other NBA stars come close to O’Neal in this exercise, namely David Robinson and Michael Jordan, who took up large shares of their teams’ payrolls throughout their careers. Jordan actually finished No. 3 on this list, but that’s largely because of the two final years of his deal with the Bulls, which were the biggest salaries in NBA history if we adjust to inflation.
Below, check out the NBA players who took the largest share of team payrolls throughout their careers.
The 2023-24 Detroit Pistons are the worst NBA team by record to make the playoffs the following season. See full ranking here.
The 2024-25 Detroit Pistons have made history, as they are officially the team to have the worst record in the season prior to reach the playoffs the following year. Detroit has gone from winning 14 games in 2023-24 to qualifying for the postseason in this campaign, something no other team has ever done. And the Pistons are doing it in style, boasting a plus-.500 record thus far this season, something that a lot of the teams in our ranking below cannot likewise claim, even despite reaching the playoffs.
In 2023-24, the Pistons resided pretty much in the NBA’s gutter, boasting a 14-68 record for the campaign, good for a 17.1 win percentage. And they were rewarded after the season with the fifth pick in the draft despite being tied with the Washington Wizards for the highest odds to earn the No. 1 pick in the lottery.
Even so, first-year Pistons head coach JB Bickerstaff has done a magnificent job of turning things around in Detroit in a huge way, as the Pistons are headed to the playoffs in their first campaign with him at the helm. Detroit took the distinction of being the team with the worst record the season prior to make the playoffs the following year from the 2014-15 Milwaukee Bucks, who went from 15-67 in 2013-14 to 41-41 (and earning a playoff spot) in 2014-15.
That doesn’t mean Detroit is the team to make the biggest leap in play from one season to the next, however, as the 2007-08 Boston Celtics went from going 24-58 the year prior to boasting a 62-20 record (and winning an NBA championship) the following season. The 1997-98 San Antonio Spurs also made a bigger single-season leap than the Pistons, going from 20-62 in ’97 to 56-26 in ’98.
Regardless, the 2024-25 Pistons still own history in their own right. Below, check out the teams with the worst records in NBA history to make the playoffs the following year, a list now led by Detroit.
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Check out these photos highlighting [autotag]Diego Lopes[/autotag]’ career through the years.
HoopsHype ranks NBA goats by how they measure up in all-time statistical playoff rankings, in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks.
With the NBA playoffs around the corner, we decided to take a look at how well current and former NBA superstars have performed statistically on the sport’s biggest stage, which is the playoffs.
To do so, we looked at our HoopsHype 78, which ranks the greatest NBA players of all time, and checked out their ranking in playoff counting stats.
To the surprise of no one, LeBron James is the only player to be statistically in the Top 25 of all the main counting stats (and he’s actually Top 10 in all of them), so he did pretty well in this.
Scottie Pippen ranks very high in this exercise courtesy of his all-around game, which helped him pick up loads of playoff steals and blocks, and also thanks to his deep playoff runs next to Michael Jordan, who is only in the Top 10 in points and steals.
Old-school legends like Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell didn’t fare so well in this exercise, but that’s because they played in the NBA when postseasons were much shorter than they are today. Also, the league didn’t officially keep track of steals and blocks during their careers, which doesn’t help matter for them.
Regardless, below, check out how NBA GOATs measure in all-time statistical playoff rankings.
Unsurprisingly, the players considered the best to ever grace an NBA court have accumulated the most votes for individual awards given by the league in history. At No. 1, you have the inevitable LeBron James with 34 times receiving votes. However, …
Unsurprisingly, the players considered the best to ever grace an NBA court have accumulated the most votes for individual awards given by the league in history.
At No. 1, you have the inevitable LeBron James with 34 times receiving votes. However, there are some important caveats. First, modern-day players have a big advantage since the number of individual awards has increased over time. Defensive Player of the Year (for which LeBron received votes nine times) was only introduced in 1983, for example; one can imagine how many votes Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain would have had it existed during their careers.
Secondly, Tim Duncan might have topped this ranking if he hadn’t been so great from the get-go. What puts LeBron over the top here is his four years with Most Improved Player votes compared to Duncan’s zero – which is the price you pay when you’re an MVP candidate already in your rookie season.
As always, you can check the full ranking below.
