Every week, the Hoops Rumors writing team creates original content to complement our news feed. Here are our segments and features from the past seven days:
- Our Offseason in Review series came to a conclusion with the breakdown of our final two teams:
- As a result of several of 2018’s top free-agents-to-be signing contract extensions in September and October, we revamped our 2018 NBA Free Agent Power Rankings.
- We took a look at the eight rookie scale team options that were not exercised by the October 31st deadline.
- We provided an in-depth analysis of the Celtics‘ disabled player exception.
- In a pair of Community Shootaround posts, we asked:
- Should the Rookie of the Year be an award for all first-year players or only for those players one year removed from the draft?
- What is the most surprising revelation so far this season?
- A new feature (NBA Reverse Standings) allows fans to continually monitor what the 2018 draft order may look like based on current conference standings.
- We identified the players who will begin the G League season as G League Affiliate Players.
- We answered questions ranging from a potential Eric Bledsoe trade to Milwaukee to Milos Teodosic‘s chances at Rookie of the Year.
If Simmon’s keeps playing like he is, he deserves rookie of the year, just like Embiid would have last season if he’d played the whole year.
For Bledsoe, take a pole of all NBA general managers and ask how many would trade Malcolm Brogdan for Eric Bledsoe. My guess is one, the Phoenix gm.
Simmons has an unfair advantage– 2 years of Popovich!
2) would not be surprised