Every week, the Hoops Rumors writing team creates original content to complement our news feed. Here are our original segments and features from the past seven days:
- Six of our writers made predictions for the 2019/20 NBA season, picking playoff teams, award winners, and Finals participants. The Clippers were the most popular title pick, with three of us picking them to win the 2020 championship.
- Our Offseason in Review series continued with three more teams:
- I explored how the “Rose Rule” will affect Pascal Siakam‘s potential earnings on his new four-year extension with the Raptors.
- Nine players signed rookie scale extensions this year. I broke down those deals and dug into why we saw so many more preseason extensions in 2019 than we did in 2018 or 2017.
- I identified the teams with the most and least roster continuity between the end of last season and the start of this one.
- Here are the key dates and deadlines to keep an eye out for during the 2019/20 regular season.
- I looked at which teams had roster spots open to start the regular season — some of those clubs have since filled those openings.
- Here’s our recap of your over/under predictions for all 30 teams’ win totals in 2019/20.
- In our lone Community Shootaround discussion this week, we explored the most viable Rookie of the Year candidates not named Zion Williamson.