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Ranking: The NBA players with the most signature shoes ever

ESPN.com recently put together a list of all the players who have ever had their own signature shoes, and it was beautiful, featuring both the very popular Michael Jordan and LeBron James models, as well as sneakers from very obscure brands and …

ESPN.com recently put together a list of all the players who have ever had their own signature shoes, and it was beautiful, featuring both the very popular Michael Jordan and LeBron James models, as well as sneakers from very obscure brands and players you would have never guessed had their own shoe.

All in all, it’s a fantastic resource.

Using their research, we have created this ranking of the players with the most signature shoes in NBA history. The usual suspects are on top, but then it gets more and more interesting as you go down the list.

Check out NBA championship rings through the years

Below these words, you can take a look at the vast majority of the NBA championships rings in league history. We even have the ring for the 1947 Philadelphia Warriors, the very first NBA championship ring in the Association. The ring ceremony has …

Below these words, you can take a look at the vast majority of the NBA championships rings in league history. We even have the ring for the 1947 Philadelphia Warriors, the very first NBA championship ring in the Association.

The ring ceremony has become a momentous occasion in the NBA, usually held just before the reigning champion’s opening game of the next season, and some of the rings that have been given out to recent champions are downright beautiful.

Ranking: The Top 15 ‘What If’ players in NBA history

From Ralph Sampson to Drazen Petrovic to Derrick Rose, HoopsHype ranks the 15 biggest what-ifs in NBA history.

What if the youngest league MVP in NBA history never blew out his knee?

What if the No. 1 pick in the 2002 NBA draft, an international superstar from another major global market, didn’t see his prime end by the time he was 28?

What if the Boston Celtics dynasty of the ’80s had extended into the ’90s thanks to the No. 2 pick in the 1986 NBA draft?

What if the one-time all-time leading scorer in basketball had joined the NBA rather than spend his entire career playing at lower levels overseas?

The landscape of the NBA today could be so much different. It’s time we look at the biggest what-ifs in NBA history.

NBA Cup: Take a look at all the court designs

The In-Season Tournament is back, now rebranded as the Emirates NBA Cup, and with it a bunch of new court designs. You may like them or not, but you cannot say they are not bold. Below, you can see all the new courts from this year along with the …

The In-Season Tournament is back, now rebranded as the Emirates NBA Cup, and with it a bunch of new court designs. You may like them or not, but you cannot say they are not bold.

Below, you can see all the new courts from this year along with the ones from the inagural In-Season Tournament.

Embedded with the Pacers: A day with an NBA coaching staff

HoopsHype’s Senior NBA Insider Michael Scotto was granted exclusive access behind the scenes of life as an NBA coach with the Indiana Pacers and learned how the NBA grind affects the sleep habits of coaches and their family life, what happens on team plane rides and bus trips, how coaches prepare for games, what happens during in-game chats, and how the job has changed over the past decade.

What’s it like being an NBA coach behind the scenes each day?

HoopsHype was granted exclusive access to Indiana’s coaching staff during their trip to New York on October 24-25 to find out.

This venture included sitting in on a coaches meeting at the hotel the day before facing the Knicks, riding the team bus to Madison Square Garden for shootaround and the game, listening to what Pacers coaches told their players before taking the court, halftime adjustments, and after the game.

During the fellowship and talking with the coaches during their meeting, HoopsHype learned how the NBA grind affects the sleep habits of coaches and their family life, what happens on team plane rides and bus trips, how coaches prepare for games, what happens during in-game chats, and how the job has changed over the past decade.