Every week, the writing team here at Hoops Rumors creates original content to complement our news feed. With the NBA offseason in full swing, here are our numerous segments and features from the past seven days:
- In five Community Shootaround posts this week, we asked:
- Should the Trail Blazers hold onto their prolific backcourt duo of Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum or deal one of them for frontcourt help?
- Will Kemba Walker re-sign with the Hornets as a free agent next summer, and if not, where will he end up?
- Do the Nuggets have the pieces in place to make a run at the playoffs during the upcoming season?
- How do you feel about super-teams?
- How do you feel about the three proposed NBA rule changes for the 2018/19 season?
- In his latest Weekly Mailbag, Arthur Hill answered readers’ questions regarding the possibility of Jimmy Butler to the Celtics, the Lakers plan if the upcoming season doesn’t go as planned, and what happens to a player’s rookie status if he’s a two-way rookie who never actually plays in an NBA game.
- We took a look at the NBA teams with the most and fewest guaranteed-salary contracts.
- In three Polls this week, we asked:
- Who will be the best player in the Eastern Conference this season?
- Which team will finish the 2018/19 season with the NBA’s worst record?
- Which contract extension taking effect this season do you think is the most team-friendly and which do you think is the least team-friendly?
- Luke Adams went through a recent history of rookie scale extension signings.
- We listed out the traded second round picks in next summer’s 2019 NBA Draft.
- Luke Adams broke down some important pre-season dates for the 2018/19 season.
- We examined the remaining offseason questions for each team in the Southwest Division, the Pacific Division, and the Northwest Division.
- Luke Adams took a look at the NBA teams who still have open two-way contract roster spots.
- We went through the former NBA players who signed overseas for the 2018/19 season.
- Luke Adams analyzed how each player fared who decided to decline an option for the 2018/19 season.
- We listed the amount of dead money each NBA franchise is carrying for the 2018/19 season.
- Luke Adams dove into an example of the effect of the upcoming deadline to stretch a player’s 2018/19 salary.
- We went through the 2018/19 non-guaranteed contracts by team.
- Luke Adams listed, in order, the longest-tenured NBA GMs/Presidents.
- We dove into a list of the NBA players with trade kickers on their contracts for the 2018/19 season.