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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.
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Santiago Aldama, the Memphis Grizzlies’ versatile forward, has taken a significant leap in his fourth NBA season, embracing a larger role and showcasing his dynamic skillset as he nears restricted free agency. Standing at 6-foot-11, Aldama has …
Santiago Aldama, the Memphis Grizzlies’ versatile forward, has taken a significant leap in his fourth NBA season, embracing a larger role and showcasing his dynamic skillset as he nears restricted free agency. Standing at 6-foot-11, Aldama has thrived with increased offensive freedom, often playing as a hybrid forward or even a wing despite his near-seven-foot frame.
In a recent interview with HoopsHype, Aldama discussed his journey, the impact of international play, and the coaching shift to Tuomas Iisalo.
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.
There have been at least 26 sales of NBA cards worth seven figures and most of them involve Jordan, LeBron, Kobe and Curry.
We’re in the golden era of sports cards, with some being sold for millions of dollars. Though not as hot a property as some baseball cards, there’s a big market for the basketball stuff too. Per our research, there have been at least 26 sales of NBA cards worth seven figures.
Most of them involve Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Stephen Curry. One featuring the Warriors superstar actually tops the list of the most expensive sales ever.
The 2003-04 Upper Deck LeBron James Exquisite Collection Rookie Patch Autograph is the card sold most times in our list with 12. Other players that collectors are investing in are Giannis Antetokounmpo and Luka Doncic. The trading card industry is booming and still growing, and we’re sure there will be new record sales soon.
For now, this is the all-time ranking:
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.
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:
HoopsHype presents every season in NBA history in which that year’s top scorer by total points scored was not the scoring champion.
Last season, the NBA set a minimum of at least 65 games played for players to be eligible for individual postseason awards in an effort to curb load management. The early returns were promising, too. So why stop there? Historically, the scoring champion has been decided by a player’s points-per-game average. But what if we changed that to total points scored?
Today, we’re going to take a look at the seasons in which the NBA’s top scorers (judged by total points scored) were not the scoring champions because they didn’t have a high enough points-per-game average.
There have been several such instances in NBA history, as long ago as 1969-70 and as recently as 2022-23.
Crazily enough, Kobe Bryant’s legacy would be even more impressive had scoring champions been decided by total points scored. Bryant had two scoring championships in his career, one in ’06 and one in ’07. But in 2002-03, he scored 54 more total points than Tracy McGrady but lost the scoring title due to scoring average. And in 2007-08, Bryant outscored the scoring champion, LeBron James, by 73 total points, but again lost the title due to his lower average.
This change would have given Bryant a ridiculous four scoring titles in his career, tying him with Kevin Durant and George Gervin for the third-most ever.
For what it’s worth, although James would have lost the ’08 scoring title to Bryant if it were judged by total points, he was actually the total points scored champion in 2017-18 over James Harden, so he would still have one scoring title in his career in this scenario.
Oh, and if we were handing out scoring titles by total points scored, His Airness, Michael Jordan, would have 11 scoring titles instead of 10, because in 1984-85, he actually scored 504 more points than Bernard King, the year’s scoring champion by points average.
Not too shabby.
Below, check out the years where the NBA’s top scorers by total points were not scoring champions.
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…
TMZ broke the horrific news on a Sunday afternoon: Kobe Bryant, one of the finest basketball players in history, had died at age 41 along with his daughter Gianna and seven others in a helicopter crash. Shock, denial, despair, and immense sadness …
TMZ broke the horrific news on a Sunday afternoon: Kobe Bryant, one of the finest basketball players in history, had died at age 41 along with his daughter Gianna and seven others in a helicopter crash.
Shock, denial, despair, and immense sadness followed. Twitter (now X) was one of the platforms where that sequence of emotions was expressed more clearly.
Here’s what NBA players and media members tweeted that day.
Kobe Bryant was a guest on The HoopsHype Podcast on June 2018, and he had a wide-ranging conversation with Alex Kennedy. They discussed his influence on modern-day NBA players, whether he would help the Los Angeles Lakers recruit free agents, his …
Kobe Bryant was a guest on The HoopsHype Podcast on June 2018, and he had a wide-ranging conversation with Alex Kennedy. They discussed his influence on modern-day NBA players, whether he would help the Los Angeles Lakers recruit free agents, his success away from basketball, and much more. You can listen to the episode below. But if you prefer to read what he said, a condensed and edited conversation transcript is below.
