Forty of the 50 players who made our initial list of the top NBA free agents of 2022 have already tentatively come off the board. Some of those players picked up options or signed extensions with their old teams; many have reached free agent agreements since Thursday, either with their former team or a new club.
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With just 10 of our top 50 free agents left on the board, our free agent prediction contest is already entering its home stretch. You can check out the leaderboard right here to follow along with the action and see how you’re doing relative to the competition.
Using the leaderboard, you can search for your own name in the contest results. You can also click on anyone’s name to see their individual picks.
A few other things to keep in mind:
- During the July moratorium, the leaderboard is being updated based on tentative contract agreements. However, until those agreements become official after the moratorium, they won’t be locked in. In other words, if we’d been running this contest back in 2015, when DeAndre Jordan committed to the Mavericks before changing his mind and signing with the Clippers, you wouldn’t have gotten credit for predicting Jordan would sign with Dallas, even if he may have been listed in our leaderboard as a Mav for a few days.
- If a player exercised his option, his free agency is over. For example, Kyrie Irving will be considered to have “signed” with the Nets even if he’s traded later in the offseason.
- Ties will be broken based on which entrant picked the higher-ranked free agents more accurately on a cumulative basis. Each free agent will be assigned a point value based on his ranking and the entrant with the lower overall point total would win a tiebreaker. For instance, an entrant who correctly picks the No. 4 and No. 8 free agents’ destinations (12 points) would earn the tiebreaker over an entrant who correctly picks No. 1 and No. 14 (15 points).
- We will announce the winners on Hoops Rumors once all 50 free agents have signed or on September 27, 2022, whichever comes first. If there are any unsigned players as of September 27, they’ll be excluded from the competition.
You can keep tabs on the leaderboard via the “Hoops Rumors Features” sidebar of our desktop site or the “Features” page in our mobile menu.
This is a close race
I straight up forgot to do this, but I also havent remembered to do the baseball one in several years lol. I always put it off until later while doing other stuff, and then dont remember until well after it starts
Unrelated but how is nobody on this site hyped about this FIBA U17 World Cup starting today? DJ Wagner is leading Team USA but he’s backed up by the best HS players in the country as they vie for gold in Spain vs the best young basketball players in the world
Publicity. I had no idea it was even going on until you mentioned it.
I follow this stuff pretty close & I wouldn’t even have known it was happening except that I’m subscribed to the FIBA youtube channel. Im obv a huge nba fan but I sorta hate how the league has such a chokehold on the attention of basketball fans in this country. It’s obv the best league in the world & extremely interesting even in the off-season as the past 9days have shown. But there’s high level basketball with alot of intrigue in these FIBA youth tourneys, the FIBA senior tourneys & definitely the Big3. I hope 1 day more guys are able/willing to enjoy basketball outside of the highly marketed nba/ncaa system
The basketball tournament is always fun
It is. I’m always way more hype for the Big3, FIBA tourneys & summer league that TBT mainly just bc I see it as a espn thing & I’m pretty much anti-espn. I’m looking forward to TBT more this yr bc the Thompson twins are playing & this is a rare chance to see them vs high level grown comp. The FIBA youth tourneys are a pretty good representation of the future of basketball while the big3 is a great representation of its recent past. Eurobasket is def gonna be the highlight of the summer basketball season tho
What about euros/world cup qualifiers and stuff like that. I was hoping to watch Dragic and Luka on the slovenian team, but forgot about it…
Also summer league obviously starts today
France just got upset in WC Qualifying yesterday. Luka is playing for Slovenia but idk Dragic was, that’s wassup. This FIBA U17 tourney is more intriguing to me than the qualifying games tho. Way more at stake plus it’s an intro to the next generation of great players. I can’t even begin to name the dozens, prob hundreds of great players from here & abroad that I was introduced to by watching these U16-U19 tourneys. Watching JoVal & Lithuania “upset” Steph Curry, Jeremy Lamb & USA back about a decade ago is def a strong memory that sticks out… btw this Serbia vs France game going in rn is a really good 1.. link to m.youtube.com
Ya Dragic came out of international retirement
That’s a noble cause, Sankara. I support it
I demand a recount.
Let’s please not get the Supreme Court involved tho
The vast majority of players are just re-signing with their current team. Doesn’t exactly make for an exciting prediction competition.